{"id":492085,"date":"2026-03-07T23:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/492085\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:15:20","slug":"lines-notes-and-how-to-watch-vs-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/492085\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines, Notes, and How to Watch vs. Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carolina Hurricanes will close out their Western Conference road trip Saturday as they play the Calgary Flames for the final time of the regular season. The match comes one day removed from the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

The game is scheduled to begin at 10 PM EST.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes were uncharacteristically quiet during the trade deadline and only traded for enforcer Nic Deslauriers for a notably low price. Meanwhile, the Flames were very active during Friday\u2019s frenzy, and in the days leading up to it.<\/p>\n

Throughout the week, the organization parted ways with Jeremie Poirier, MacKenzie Weegar, Jacob Battaglia, and Nazem Kadri, while they welcomed in Gavin White, Olli Maatta, Jonathan Castagna, Ryan Strome, Brennan Othmann, Victor Olofsson, and unsigned prospect Maxmilian Curran.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s game will undoubtedly see Brandon Bussi return to the net for the Hurricanes, as Andersen played Friday (and very well<\/a>, if I might add). Bussi\u2019s save percentage is .901 with a goals against average of 2.29 across a 25-3-1 record.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Flames will likely have Dustin Wolf man the pipes as they alternate goalies. In his last game, Wolf was replaced by Devin Cooley after allowing four goals before the end of the first period. This season, Wolf\u2019s save percentage is .898 with a goals against average of 2.97 across a 17-23-3 record.<\/p>\n

Expected Carolina Hurricanes Lines<\/p>\n

Andrei Svechnikov \u2013 Sebastian Aho \u2013 Seth Jarvis<\/p>\n

Taylor Hall \u2013 Logan Stankoven \u2013 Jackson Blake<\/p>\n

Nikolaj Ehlers \u2013 Jordan Staal \u2013 Jordan Martinook<\/p>\n

William Carrier \u2013 Mark Jankowski \u2013 Eric Robinson<\/p>\n

Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/p>\n

Defense<\/p>\n

Jaccob Slavin \u2013 Jalen Chatfield<\/p>\n

K\u2019Andre Miller \u2013 Sean Walker<\/p>\n

Alexander Nikishin<\/p>\n

Goaltenders<\/p>\n

Brandon Bussi \/ Frederik Andersen<\/p>\n

Expected Flames Lines<\/p>\n

Blake Coleman Mikael Backlund Matt Coronato<\/p>\n

Yegor Sharangovich Morgan Frost Victor Olofsson<\/p>\n

Connor Zary Ryan Strome Joel Farabee<\/p>\n

Ryan Lomberg Martin Pospisil Adam Klapka<\/p>\n

Defense<\/p>\n

Kevin Bahl Zach Whitecloud<\/p>\n

Yan Kuznetsov Zayne Parekh<\/p>\n

Joel Hanley Brayden Pachal<\/p>\n

Goaltenders<\/p>\n

Dustin Wolf \/ Devin Cooley<\/p>\n

Special Teams<\/p>\n

Carolina Hurricanes power play: 22.2% (12th, down two spots from the previous game)
Carolina Hurricanes penalty kill: 79.7% (14th, down one spot from the previous game)<\/p>\n

Calgary Flames power play: 15.8% (31st)
Calgary Flames penalty kill: 82.2% (7th)<\/p>\n

Hurricanes Game Notes<\/p>\n

In the previous game against the Edmonton Oilers, the Hurricanes lost defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere to injury<\/a>. Due to this, the Hurricanes are likely to play both Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Mark Jankowski, rolling with 13 forwards and five defensemen.<\/p>\n

Logan Stankoven\u2019s line remains hot.<\/p>\n

How To Watch<\/p>\n

TV: FanDuel Sports Network South
Streaming: ESPN+
Radio: 99.9 The Fan<\/p>\n

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\t\tRachel Barkley is a beat writer covering the Carolina Hurricanes for Carolina Hockey Now on Sportsnaut. Painting stories with … More about Rachel Barkley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes will close out their Western Conference road trip Saturday as they play the Calgary Flames…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,1743,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-492085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-jesperi-kotkaniemi","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116190442241257553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492085","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=492085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}