Andersen was 16-14-5 with a 3.05 goals-against average and .874 save percentage in 35 games. Bussi went 31-6-2 with a 2.47 GAA, .895 save percentage and two shutouts in 39 games. He was claimed off waivers from the Florida Panthers on Oct. 5 and made his NHL debut at the age of 27.<\/p>\n
Since March 1, Andersen is 8-4-0.\u00a0Bussi is 7-3-1.<\/p>\n
“They both played really well that last stretch there and gave us exactly what we wanted, (so we) have a decision to make,”\u00a0Brind’Amour said. “There’s a likelihood that you will see both probably.”<\/p>\n
Andersen had an up-and-down start to his fifth season with Carolina. The 36-year-old won his first three games and then went 4-10-5 before the break for the 2026 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
“Probably (back) then, I just tried to build every day and continue to work on good habits,” Andersen said. “I know what it feels like when I’m playing well and I continue to search for that every day.”<\/p>\n
Bussi made 16 saves in his debut, a 5-1 win against the San Jose Sharks on Oct. 14. The remarkable start to his career included becoming the fastest goalie in League history to 25 wins (25-3-1 in 29 games).<\/p>\n
“Playing so many games, there’s a lot of learning experiences as well,”\u00a0Bussi said. “Playing 6-5 games, 1-0 games, how to react in all those situations, how to find a way to get the job done. All those experiences are very valuable this time of year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andersen was 16-14-5 with a 3.05 goals-against average and .874 save percentage in 35 games. Bussi went 31-6-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-554039","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\/116416154427297273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554039","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=554039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}