The Carolina Hurricanes (35-15-6) are visiting \u201cThe City That Never Sleeps\u201d and will do battle with the New York Rangers (22-28-6) Thursday night at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n
This is the last game for Carolina before the long Olympic break. They will not be back in action until February 26.<\/p>\n
Advertisement<\/p>\n
The club was involved in some drama yesterday as they were reportedly in the mix to acquire Artemi Panarin from the Rangers via trade.<\/p>\n
Late Tuesday night it was rumored that the Hurricanes and Panarin were close to inking a deal, but that all turned sour on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
NHL \u201cinsiders\u201d were reporting all kinds of nonsense during the day, leading up until the deadline at 3 P.M.<\/p>\n
Panarin wanted to live in a \u201cno tax\u201d state, he wanted a minimum of $50 million on a contract extension, he wanted to play for a Cup contender, yadda yadda yadda and it turned out that none of that was true as he was traded to and then signed with the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n
Advertisement<\/p>\n
The most amusing thing? Afterward, it was reported that was where he wanted to go all along, there was no other place.<\/p>\n
So he went to a high tax state, signed for $22 million instead of $50, and is not necessarily playing for a Cup contender. Funny stuff.<\/p>\n
Back to tonight\u2019s game!<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes have earned points in 14 of their last 15 games. They are comfortably eight points ahead of their closest competition in their Division. They are riding a red hot goalie.<\/p>\n
Speaking of the red hot goalie, Brandon Bussi will be back between the pipes tonight. (Now confirmed) Bussi is 22-3-1 so far this season and has looked good while accumulating that record.<\/p>\n
Advertisement<\/p>\n
Fred Andersen will rest up for his gig in the Olympics.<\/p>\n
I would look for the same lines that Carolina has utilized in recent games:<\/p>\n
Svechnikov \u2013 Aho \u2013 Jarvis<\/p>\n
Hall- Stankoven \u2013 Blake<\/p>\n
Ehlers \u2013 Staal \u2013 Martinook<\/p>\n
Kotkaniemi \u2013 Jankowski \u2013 Carrier<\/p>\n
Slavin \u2013 Chatfield<\/p>\n
Walker \u2013 Miller<\/p>\n
Nikishin \u2013 Gostisbehere<\/p>\n
The Rangers are a mess and currently sit in last place in the Conference. Keep an eye on Vincent Trocheck. Should the Canes try to pick him up when trading commences?<\/p>\n
The game will be broadcast by the FanDuel Sports Network and we will have the normal crew working the game.<\/p>\n
Puck drop \u2013 7 P.M.<\/p>\n
UPDATES<\/p>\n
You may want to check out \u2013<\/p>\n
Also \u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes (35-15-6) are visiting \u201cThe City That Never Sleeps\u201d and will do battle with the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[3039,5169,19349,194,29,5176,5,195,145,35,4,2668,5813,3042,54326],"class_list":{"0":"post-447746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-artemi-panarin","9":"tag-braden-schneider","10":"tag-brandon-bussi","11":"tag-carolina","12":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","13":"tag-carolinahurricanes","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-hurricanes","16":"tag-los-angeles-kings","17":"tag-new-york-rangers","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-north-carolina","20":"tag-raleigh","21":"tag-vincent-trocheck","22":"tag-yadda-yadda-yadda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116020143396414075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447746","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=447746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}