Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\nCarolina Hurricanes News & Notes:<\/p>\n
The Carolina Hurricanes hit the ice this afternoon, October 17, looking to extend their hot start as they open a Canadian road trip against the Winnipeg Jets. Carolina enters the matchup carrying a strong record following a hard-fought 4-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n
In that contest, goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 20 of 22 shots he faced against a heavy Washington offence. Andrei Svechnikov recorded three points, while Sebastian Aho added a pair of assists.<\/p>\n
To flush out their depth, the Hurricanes recalled defenseman Juuso Valimaki under emergency conditions from the Chicago Wolves. The puck drops at 2:30 PM CT as the Hurricanes\u2019 elite defensive structure faces a heavy test against Winnipeg\u2019s offence.<\/p>\n
Carolina lost Taylor Hall to an upper-body injury on Tuesday against Washington, and the forward is listed as out for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Jets News & Notes:<\/p>\n
The Winnipeg Jets return to home ice this afternoon, October 17, carrying a 4-1-2 record ahead of a highly anticipated cross-conference clash against the Carolina Hurricanes. <\/p>\n
Winnipeg is looking to bounce back after a hard-fought 4-3 overtime loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night. In that road contest, defenseman Neal Pionk put the shorthanded blue line on his back, logging a three-point performance with a goal and two assists. Kyle Connor also found the back of the net, marking his steady offensive production early in the campaign. <\/p>\n
In net, Stuart Skinner turned away 24 shots but couldn\u2019t quite stop the final push in extra time. The puck drops at 2:30 PM CT at Canada Life Centre as the Jets look to lock down two points and defend their strong early-season standing.<\/p>\n
Vladislav Namestnikov is week-to-week with an undisclosed injury after taking a tumble in the boards during the Jets\u2019 morning skate on Thursday in Chicago. Josh Morrissey was also downgraded from day-to-day to week-to-week.<\/p>\n
Carolina Hurricanes Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Carrier \u2013 Aho \u2013 Svechnikov
Nadeau \u2013 Stankoven \u2013 Blake
Ehlers \u2013 Jankowski \u2013 Martinook
Robinson \u2013 Kotkaniemi \u2013 Unger Sorum<\/p>\n
Slavin \u2013 Chatfield
Miller \u2013 Walker
Gostibehere \u2013 Reilly<\/p>\n
Bussi
Kochetkov<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Connor \u2013 Scheifele \u2013 Perfetti
Niederreiter \u2013 Bjorck \u2013 Vilardi
Rosen \u2013 Lowry \u2013 Iafallo
Koepke \u2013 Barron \u2013 Lambert<\/p>\n
Ferraro \u2013 DeMelo
Samberg \u2013 Pionk
Fleury \u2013 Bauer<\/p>\n
Stevenson
Skinner<\/p>\n
Players To Watch:<\/p>\n
Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n
Martin Ne\u010das: The explosive winger is playing with elite confidence, driving the Hurricanes\u2019 transition game and carrying a multi-point performance into today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Sebastian Aho: The Hurricanes sniper is driving the team\u2019s top line with supreme precision, carrying massive momentum into this afternoon\u2019s game after lighting the lamp against Washington.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n
Neal Pionk: Moving into elite minutes in Morrissey\u2019s absence, the veteran blueliner is in spectacular form after dictating the pace of Thursday\u2019s game with a dominant three-point night.<\/p>\n
Brad Lambert: The highly skilled playmaker is flashing high-end vision, fresh off recording a primary helper against Chicago to ignite the team\u2019s depth scoring<\/p>\n
Next game<\/p>\n
Carolina Hurricanes \u2013 October 18 vs Calgary Flames
Winnipeg Jets \u2013 October 20 vs St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink) Carolina Hurricanes (6-1-0) at Winnipeg Jets (4-1-2)Venue: Canada Life CentreDate: Today…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[1742,10910,194,29,5176,5,195,2081,3385,1290,513,2001,4,5573,1267,1174,1110,3935,18],"class_list":["post-688981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-hurricanes","tag-andrei-svechnikov","tag-brad-lambert","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolinahurricanes","tag-hockey","tag-hurricanes","tag-josh-morrissey","tag-juuso-valimaki","tag-kyle-connor","tag-martin-necas","tag-neal-pionk","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-pyotr-kochetkov","tag-sebastian-aho","tag-taylor-hall","tag-vladislav-namestnikov","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117455978841871940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688981","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=688981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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