{"id":546070,"date":"2026-04-07T19:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546070\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:05:23","slug":"projected-lineup-april-7-vs-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546070\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected Lineup: April 7 vs. Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; Forward\u00a0Nic Deslauriers is expected to try and help the Carolina Hurricanes lock up a playoff spot on Tuesday, when they host the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>Likely to play in his third game as a member of the team, the enforcer was skating next to Will Carrier and Mark Jankowski to start the day. Eric Robinson was working as an extra alongside Jesperi Kotkaniemi.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Staal and Jordan Martinook, both of whom did not play on Sunday in Ottawa, are expected to be back in the lineup this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the cast of skaters, Brandon Bussi\u00a0will try to earn his 30th victory in his 37th start of the campaign. A winner of his last four appearances, the first-year NHLer made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/topic\/game-coverage\/recap-canes-clip-isles-for-third-straight-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">13 saves against the Islanders<\/a> on Saturday, his most recent showing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s Projected Lineup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Forwards<\/p>\n<p>Svechnikov &#8211; Aho &#8211; Jarvis<\/p>\n<p>Hall &#8211; Stankoven &#8211; Blake<\/p>\n<p>Ehlers &#8211; Staal &#8211; Martinook<\/p>\n<p>Carrier &#8211; Jankowski &#8211; Deslauriers<\/p>\n<p>Defense<\/p>\n<p>Slavin &#8211; Chatfield<\/p>\n<p>Miller &#8211; Walker<\/p>\n<p>Gostisbehere &#8211; Nikishin<\/p>\n<p>Starting Goaltender<\/p>\n<p>Bussi<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Injuries<\/p>\n<p>Pyotr Kochetkov (Hip Surgery | No Timetable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/injury-report-kochetkov-resumes-skating-with-canes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Resumed Skating On Apr. 4<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Scratches<\/p>\n<p>Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/p>\n<p>Mike Reilly<\/p>\n<p>Eric Robinson<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>PP1: Aho, Ehlers (Staal), Jarvis, and Svechnikov with Gostisbehere<\/p>\n<p>PP2: Blake, Hall, Jankowski, and Stankoven with Nikishin<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Staal has been taking the faceoffs with the first power play unit. If he wins it, he&#8217;ll stay on the ice. When the puck comes out of the zone, he jumps off, and Nikolaj Ehlers jumps on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211; Forward\u00a0Nic Deslauriers is expected to try and help the Carolina Hurricanes lock up a playoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-546070","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\/116364989164636699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546070","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=546070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}