Hurricanes @ Predators 5/8-5/10 Regular Season Final Two

[Harbingers]

Just now, TrevorLaurenceTime22 said:

Resting a lot of guys tonight, As I expected also Slavin isn't even on the injury report pulling him the other night appears to have been purely precautionary.... 

Rod said otherwise but I believe are correct and its just pure hyperbole at this point.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

2 minutes ago, Harbingers said:

Rod said otherwise but I believe are correct and its just pure hyperbole at this point.

Rod is notoriously tight lipped "hoping day to day" and no injury report. He also said he doubts TT would play the day he returned.

[Anybodyhome]

Slavin played 7 minutes of the 1st period the other night and over the past 10 days or so has put in a sh!t-ton of time on the penalty kills because our guys racked more PIMs in the last month than they did all season, it seems like. 

[Harbingers]

NASHVILLE - Before facing off in the first round of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Carolina Hurricanes and Nashville Predators square off in the regular-season finale.

The Match-Up

Carolina Hurricanes (36-11-8, 80 points) at Nashville Predators (30-23-2, 62 points)

Monday, May 10, 8 p.m.

Watch: Bally Sports South, Bally Sports app

Listen: 99.9 FM The Fan, Hurricanes.com/Listen, Hurricanes app

Numbers to Know

1: Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 27 of 29 shots in Nashville on Saturday, suffering his first regulation loss in nine starts. Nedelljovic owns a 1.90 goals-against averange and a .932 save percentage, which ranks first among all NHL goaltenders with at least 15 starts.

16: The Canes have killed each of their last 16 penalties, going seven games without allowing a power-play goal. The streak is tied for the seventh-longest in franchise history and is the longest for the Canes since March 2017.

https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/gameday-preview-carolina-hurricanes-nashville-predators/c-324538200

https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/projected-lineup-carolina-hurricanes-nashville-predators/c-324544882

"Here is the projected lineup for the Hurricanes.

Forwards

Foegele-Aho-Teravainen
Niederreiter-Trocheck-Necas
Martinook-Lorentz-Fast
McCormick-Shore-Geekie

Defensemen

Gardiner-Keane
Skjei-Hakanpaa
Ryan-Bean

Goalies

Mrazek
Reimer

Scratch: Nedeljkovic

Injuries: Hamilton (undisclosed), McGinn (upper body), Paquette (lower body), Pesce (undisclosed), Slavin (undisclosed), Staal (undisclosed), Svechnikov (undisclosed)

Taxi squad: McKeown"

Glad Martinook is getting a practice game. McGinn I'm not too worried about as he'll be a 4th line smash if healthy in the playoffs, though Paquette concerns me for the reason @Anybodyhome listed before.

Last of the season. No Svech, Staal or D. Lets go out there chippy.

Edited May 10, 2021 by Harbingers

[Anybodyhome]

Can't give up any softer than that. Gardiner didn't even try to defend him.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

This is hideous lol. 

[Anybodyhome]

Mailed it in. 

Think I'll turn on a movie. 

[Stumpy]

3 hours ago, Harbingers said:

Defensemen

Gardiner-Keane

My kinfolk finally getting in an NHL game!

[Stumpy]

Just now, Stumpy said:

My kinfolk finally getting in an NHL game!

... allowed two goals already. 

[Popsickle]

What the hell?!? Just sat down and we are down 2-0. 

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

Meaningless game and with this lineup of taxi squaders not surprising.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

7 minutes ago, Popsickle said:

What the hell?!? Just sat down and we are down 2-0. 

Jake Garnier awful shorthanded, and a lineup full of backups.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

Top three DMEN out this should tell you how much they mean.

[kungfoodude]

I don't like the decision to lay down in the game. It definitely isn't good for the notoriously streaky Mrazek and I don't like falling from first to potentially fourth overall.

I hope they can get fired up in the playoffs after losing two straight to Nashville. Definitely don't like going in cold.