Game 29: Carolina Hurricanes (15-11-2) vs. Florida Panthers (7-16-6)

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

The Hurricanes are back at home after that rough road trip as they take on Florida tonight. The Canes regained first (due to games in hand) last night in a shootout loss to New York and will look to get back on track tonight and retake sole possession of first in the Southeast division with a win over Florida and a Jets loss against Boston.

The Canes will roll with the following lineup...

Tlusty - E. Staal - Semin

Skinner - J. Staal - Dwyer

Bowman - Nash - Jokinen

Westgarth - Brent - Hall

Harrison - Faulk

Gleason - Sanguinetti

Pitkanen - McBain

Ellis

Peters

Inactive: Tim Wallace

Injured: Tuomo Ruutu (hip), Chad LaRose (concussion), Joe Corvo (lower body), Cam Ward (knee)

As far as things for the Panthers go, George Parros the "tough guy" is day-to-day, where as Jose Theodore, Michael Caruso, Ed Jovanovski, Mike Weaver, Dmitry Kulikov, Stephen Weiss, and Kris Versteeg are all out.

Go Canes!!!

[iamcline]

No comment. No jinx from me.

[Jakob]

I predict a huge blowout, yep.

[Goosfraba21]

Must win. Get it done!!

[KillerKat]

Brent inactive?

[Goosfraba21]

Dayum Semin has a Russian hottie

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

They must have made a switch at the last second with Brent.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

I have no idea how Upshall is playing... NHL.com said he was on IR.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Can anyone tell me what happened to Sangs?

[Goosfraba21]

Got a skate to the face

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Frick that... ouch

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

I'm really not liking our effort these past 5 periods, dating back to the third period of the Washington game.

[Goosfraba21]

Idk wtf happened. We were playing great hockey and had the division lead well in hand then the wheels fell off and now we suck. Ellis playing great though.

[Goosfraba21]

Damn Sangs sporting some new threads