The Hurricanes play during a Hurricane.
There was no word out of practice yesterday in what the lines would look like with Drury included. All RBA said was that if he plays, it will be at center. Koochie didn’t make it for practice, he joined the team last night. No word on a morning skate, but the outer bands of Nicole have breached the coast with tropical storm force wind, so who know if they’ll leave the hotel. Broward County is under a state of emergency.
The Panthers tweeted 14 hours ago that the game would be played as scheduled and doors would open at 6 as usual. As for the team, they’re underachieving compared to preseason predictions, 7-5-1 for 15 points in 13 games, 5th in the Atlantic. They’ve had injury problems with Ekblad on LTIR since mid-October and Hornqvist out for a week. Ekblad has been practicing and is expected to be activated over the weekend. Hornqvist didn’t practice with the team yesterday, he skated on his own. Verhaege leads with 8 goals, Tkachuk has 12 assists and 17 points but will miss tonight for the 2nd game of his 2 game suspension. Eric Staal is pointless in 6 games, playing 4th line minutes. In Ekblad’s absence Montour and Forsling are playing monster minutes, 26:07 and 24:26, respectively. In goal, Bob has not been good, 3.29/.897 in 8 games. Only 3 more years after this for that albatross of a contract. Spencer Knight is at 2.63/.903 in 5 games. Chairman Mo hasn’t completely stifled their offensive abilities, nor has the defense improved. They’ve both scored and allowed 42 goals, 15th in goals per game, nearly 1 goal less per game than they averaged last year and are tied for 17th in goals against. Their special teams are struggling, 30th on the PP at 13.0%, 25th on the PK at 73.5%. They were 5th on the PP last year at 24.4%
Bally Sports South for TV. Tripp has been activated from IR.
There was no word out of practice yesterday in what the lines would look like with Drury included. All RBA said was that if he plays, it will be at center. Koochie didn’t make it for practice, he joined the team last night. No word on a morning skate, but the outer bands of Nicole have breached the coast with tropical storm force wind, so who know if they’ll leave the hotel. Broward County is under a state of emergency.
The Panthers tweeted 14 hours ago that the game would be played as scheduled and doors would open at 6 as usual. As for the team, they’re underachieving compared to preseason predictions, 7-5-1 for 15 points in 13 games, 5th in the Atlantic. They’ve had injury problems with Ekblad on LTIR since mid-October and Hornqvist out for a week. Ekblad has been practicing and is expected to be activated over the weekend. Hornqvist didn’t practice with the team yesterday, he skated on his own. Verhaege leads with 8 goals, Tkachuk has 12 assists and 17 points but will miss tonight for the 2nd game of his 2 game suspension. Eric Staal is pointless in 6 games, playing 4th line minutes. In Ekblad’s absence Montour and Forsling are playing monster minutes, 26:07 and 24:26, respectively. In goal, Bob has not been good, 3.29/.897 in 8 games. Only 3 more years after this for that albatross of a contract. Spencer Knight is at 2.63/.903 in 5 games. Chairman Mo hasn’t completely stifled their offensive abilities, nor has the defense improved. They’ve both scored and allowed 42 goals, 15th in goals per game, nearly 1 goal less per game than they averaged last year and are tied for 17th in goals against. Their special teams are struggling, 30th on the PP at 13.0%, 25th on the PK at 73.5%. They were 5th on the PP last year at 24.4%
Bally Sports South for TV. Tripp has been activated from IR.
