The Canes will have their hands full due to a handful of key injuries.
What - Game 16 (11-4-0)
When - 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16
Where - Lenovo Center; Raleigh, NC
How to Watch - FanDuel Sports Network South, Sportsnet 1, TVAS2
The Carolina Hurricanes will take on the Ottawa Senators (8-7-1) tonight at Lenovo Center for the first game of a back-to-back.
Carolina is coming off a tough road trip where they dropped two out of three games due to a bad few minutes in each.
In Colorado, the Canes allowed five goals in less than 10 minutes in the second period and in Utah, they allowed three goals in just over two minutes in the third period.
Despite those tough stretches, their overall game has still been strong so there's confidence that they can get things back on track.
However, what will make that difficult is a handful of key injuries: Seth Jarvis, Pyotr Kochetkov and Frederik Andersen.
In net for Carolina tonight will be third-string netminder Spencer Martin.
Ottawa is coming off of a 5-4 overtime loss to the Philadelphia Flyers, but have points in three straight.
The Senators have had some really dominant games, but also some pretty poor ones so it's still hard to get a read on them, which has become quite a trend over the last few years in Canada's capital.
Streaks
- Martin Necas (8g, 14a) has points in 11 consecutive games, a career high.
Milestone Watch
- Sebastian Aho is one game-winning goal shy of breaking Ron Francis' franchise record (57).
- Sean Walker is three points shy of 100 career points.
Game Notes
- Carolina is 64-39-8-5 all-time against Ottawa and went 3-0-0 against the Senators last season.
- Sebastian Aho (7g, 22pts in 20 games) is a point-per-game player against Ottawa.
Key Matchups
Starting Goalies
- Spencer Martin: 0-1-0; 0.806 Sv%; 5.19 GAA
- Linus Ullmark: 4-4-1; 0.890 Sv%; 2.77 GAA
Leading Scorers
- Goals - Martin Necas & Jack Roslovic (9) / Brady Tkachuk (9)
- Points - Martin Necas (25) / Tim Stutzle (21)
Power Play
- Carolina - 21.6% (10th)
- Ottawa - 29.6% (5th)
Penalty Kill
- Carolina - 83.6% (8th)
- Ottawa - 80% (17th)
Hurricanes Projected Lineup
Andrei Svechnikov - Sebastian Aho - Jack Roslovic
Eric Robinson - Jesperi Kotkaniemi - Martin Necas
Jordan Martinook - Jordan Staal - William Carrier
Tyson Jost - Jack Drury - Jackson Blake
Jaccob Slavin - Brent Burns
Dmitry Orlov - Jalen Chatfield
Shayne Gostisbehere - Sean Walker
Spencer Martin
Yaniv Perets
Injuries and Scratches: Ty Smith, Seth Jarvis (UBI), Pyotr Kochetkov (LBI) Frederik Andersen (LBI), Jesper Fast (neck)
Senators Projected Lineup
Brady Tkachuk - Josh Norris - Ridly Greig
Claude Giroux - Tim Stutzle - Drake Batherson
Noah Gregor - Shane Pinto - Michael Amadio
Nick Cousins - Adam Gaudette - Zack Macewen
Jake Sanderson - Artem Zub
Thomas Chabot - Nick Jensen
Tyler Kleven - Travis Hamonic
Linus Ullmark
AntonForsberg
Injuries and Scratches: Jacob Bernard-Docker, David Perron (personal)