The Hurricanes (28-15-4) are back in action tonight at 7 PM to take on the Florida Panthers (24-18-3) at home, looking to snap a two game losing skid.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the Canes were shutout against the Blues after giving up all three goals in the second period for their second straight loss. Tonight will not only be a chance to get back in the win column, but also give Carolina their first victory over the Panthers this season.<\/p>\n
In the two losses against the Panthers this season, the Canes gave up multi-goal leads in both. Carolina was outscored by Florida 8-2 in the third period of those games.<\/p>\n
Despite the struggles that Carolina has had with the Panthers this season, the back-to-back reigning Stanley Cup champions currently sit at 7th in a tough Atlantic Division with 51 points and are banged up heading into tonight\u2019s tilt.<\/p>\n
Florida will be without their leading scorer, Brad Marchand, who is still listed as day-to-day after leaving the game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on January 6 early. Defenseman Seth Jones, who has 24 points in 40 games this season, is still on injured reserve and won\u2019t play tonight.<\/p>\n
In addition to Marchand and Jones, the Panthers will still be without star winger Matthew Tkachuk, who has been out all season due to injury.<\/p>\n
For those actually suiting up tonight for Florida, watch out for Sam Reinhart who has 45 points in as many games, including 24 goals on the year so far.<\/p>\n
The Panthers are currently on a two game winning streak and 5-4-1 in their last 10.<\/p>\n
In the crease, Sergei Bobrovsky will get the nod for Florida. Bobrovsky hasn\u2019t been as strong between the pipes this season as years past, posting a 2.90 GAA and .881 save percentage.<\/p>\n
As for the Canes, it looks like Brandon Bussi would be the most likely option in net. Bussi currently holds a 2.31 GAA and .902 save percentage to go along with his fantastic 16-3-1 record.<\/p>\n
Shayne Gostisbehere and William Carrier will be game time decisions tonight.<\/p>\n
It will be up to the Canes to get over the hump against a beatable, yet at the same time seemingly unbeatable, Florida Panthers team.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s how to catch tonight\u2019s game:<\/p>\n
TV: FanDuel Sports Network<\/p>\n
Streaming: FanDuel Sports Network App\/ESPN<\/p>\n
Odds: Hurricanes -175 Moneyline, Hurricanes -1.5 at +136<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hurricanes (28-15-4) are back in action tonight at 7 PM to take on the Florida Panthers (24-18-3)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[34417,62,57,5141,5,4,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-411832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-carolina-hurricanes-game-day-previews","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-panthers","11":"tag-floridapanthers","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115907879991110456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}