Carolina Hurricanes (43-19-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (29-28-12, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Friday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Maple Leafs host the Carolina Hurricanes after the Hurricanes took down the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-5 in overtime.<\/p>\n
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Toronto has gone 17-12-7 in home games and 29-28-12 overall. The Maple Leafs have a -22 scoring differential, with 215 total goals scored and 237 conceded.<\/p>\n
Carolina has an 18-10-4 record in road games and a 43-19-6 record overall. The Hurricanes have a 38-5-6 record in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
The teams square off Friday for the third time this season. The Maple Leafs won 5-1 in the last meeting. Bobby McMann led the Maple Leafs with two goals.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Matthew Knies has 18 goals and 39 assists for the Maple Leafs. William Nylander has five goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nikolaj Ehlers has 20 goals and 36 assists for the Hurricanes. Andrei Svechnikov has four goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Maple Leafs: 2-5-3, averaging 2.5 goals, 3.5 assists, 5.5 penalties and 15.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: 6-4-0, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.7 assists, 3.8 penalties and 8.6 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
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INJURIES: Maple Leafs: Chris Tanev: out for season (abdomen), Auston Matthews: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: Shayne Gostisbehere: day to day (lower body), Pyotr Kochetkov: out (hip).<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes (43-19-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (29-28-12, in the Atlantic Division) Toronto; Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5106],"tags":[1742,2216,532,3819,29,3651,5,20,5172,797,2218,4,794,100,1267,2823,66,31,5171,1114],"class_list":{"0":"post-511183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-andrei-svechnikov","9":"tag-atlantic-division","10":"tag-auston-matthews","11":"tag-bobby-mcmann","12":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","13":"tag-chris-tanev","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-maple-leafs","16":"tag-mapleleafs","17":"tag-matthew-knies","18":"tag-metropolitan-division","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nikolaj-ehlers","21":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","22":"tag-pyotr-kochetkov","23":"tag-shayne-gostisbehere","24":"tag-toronto","25":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","26":"tag-torontomapleleafs","27":"tag-william-nylander"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116255171811551384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511183","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=511183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}