Montreal Canadiens (41-21-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (46-20-6, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Raleigh, North Carolina; Sunday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Hurricanes -187, Canadiens +155; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Montreal Canadiens will attempt to prolong a four-game win streak with a victory over the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n
Carolina has a 46-20-6 record overall and a 26-9-2 record on its home ice. The Hurricanes are 25-6-3 in games they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponents.<\/p>\n
Montreal is 41-21-10 overall and 19-8-8 in road games. The Canadiens have a 17-6-5 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n
The matchup Sunday is the third meeting between these teams this season. The Canadiens won 5-2 in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sebastian Aho has scored 25 goals with 48 assists for the Hurricanes. Seth Jarvis has four goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nicholas Suzuki has 24 goals and 64 assists for the Canadiens. Cole Caufield has scored eight goals and added five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hurricanes: 6-4-0, averaging 3.6 goals, 5.8 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Canadiens: 7-3-0, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.8 assists, 3.3 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hurricanes: Pyotr Kochetkov: out (hip).<\/p>\n
Canadiens: Alexandre Texier: day to day (lower body), Patrik Laine: out (lower-body), Josh Anderson: day to day (illness), Kirby Dach: out (upper body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Montreal Canadiens (41-21-10, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (46-20-6, in the Metropolitan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-530105","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-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116314983885089816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530105","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=530105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}