Carolina Hurricanes (53-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (44-27-11, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Ottawa, Ontario; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Senators -124, Hurricanes +104; over\/under is 5.5<\/p>\n
NHL PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND: Hurricanes lead series 2-0<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Carolina Hurricanes visit the Ottawa Senators in the first round of the NHL Playoffs with a 2-0 lead in the series. The teams meet Monday for the sixth time this season. The Hurricanes won 3-2 in overtime in the last matchup.<\/p>\n
Ottawa has gone 23-12-6 in home games and 44-27-11 overall. The Senators have a 9-12-4 record in games their opponents serve fewer penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
Carolina is 53-22-7 overall and 24-12-5 in road games. The Hurricanes have a 20-4-3 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Dylan Cozens has 29 goals and 30 assists for the Senators. Fabian Zetterlund has four goals and two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Andrei Svechnikov has 31 goals and 39 assists for the Hurricanes. Logan Stankoven has eight goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Senators: 6-2-2, averaging 3.3 goals, five assists, 3.5 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: 8-1-1, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.6 assists, 3.5 penalties and 7.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Senators: Artem Zub: day to day (undisclosed), Tyler Kleven: day to day (upper body), Nick Jensen: out for season (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: None listed.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes (53-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (44-27-11, in the Atlantic Division) Ottawa, Ontario; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4,292,43,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-557824","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","14":"tag-nhl-hockey","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116447615602508394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557824","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=557824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}