Carolina Hurricanes (35-15-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New York Rangers (22-28-6, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
New York; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Rangers host the Carolina Hurricanes after Alexis Lafreniere’s two-goal game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Rangers’ 6-5 loss.<\/p>\n
New York is 6-9-1 against the Metropolitan Division and 22-28-6 overall. The Rangers are 10-13-3 when they serve more penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n
Carolina has an 11-3-1 record in Metropolitan Division play and a 35-15-6 record overall. The Hurricanes have conceded 160 goals while scoring 191 for a +31 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the fourth time these teams play this season. The Hurricanes won 3-2 in overtime in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Artemi Panarin has scored 19 goals with 38 assists for the Rangers. Jonathan Tanner Miller has three goals and nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Seth Jarvis has 25 goals and 18 assists for the Hurricanes. Andrei Svechnikov has eight goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 2-8-0, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.7 assists, 3.6 penalties and 7.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: 7-1-2, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.1 assists, 3.9 penalties and 9.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rangers: None listed.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes (35-15-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. New York Rangers (22-28-6, in the Metropolitan Division) New York;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[54163,301,194,29,5176,5,195,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-445017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-54163","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-carolina","11":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","12":"tag-carolinahurricanes","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-hurricanes","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-hockey","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116012128968767246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445017","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=445017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}