What - Game 13 (8-4-0)
When - 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 6
Where - Lenovo Center; Raleigh, NC
How to Watch - FanDuel Sports Network South, North, Wisconsin

The Carolina Hurricanes will host the Minnesota Wild for the first time this season.

Carolina is coming off of a near perfect win, a 3-0 shutout victory over the New York Rangers at MSG on Tuesday, a game that saw them hold the Blueshirts to zero shots in the offensive zone for the final half of the game.

Nikolaj Ehlers finally netted his first of the year in New York and Pyotr Kochetkov had a 25-save shutout in his first start of the year.

The Hurricanes are expected to also get back another one of their injured players as defenseman K'Andre Miller was activated off of IR on Thursday.

Minnesota (5-6-3) comes to town winners of two straight, including a controversial overtime win over the Nashville Predators.

While the Wild have been a high-scoring team on the power play this season, they've struggled a bit at 5v5 and especially with keeping pucks out of their own net.

Streaks

• Mark Jankowski (2a) has points in back-to-back games.

Milestone Watch

• Jordan Staal tied his brother Eric for the most games played as a Carolina Hurricane (909) Tuesday night against the New York Rangers. He'll pass that marker tonight.
• Nikolaj Ehlers is one assist away from 300 career assists.
• K'Andre Miller is two assists shy of 100 career assists.
• Jesperi Kotkaniemi is three points shy of 200 career points.
• Jordan Martinook is three goals shy of 100 career goals.

Game Notes

• Carolina is 16-13-2-5 all-time against the Minnesota Wild
• Sebastian Aho (7g, 16pts in 15gp) is a point-per-game player against Minnesota for his career.
• Mike Reilly appeared in 84 games for the Wild from 2015-2018
• Minnesota assistant coach Patrick Dwyer played his entire NHL career with the Hurricanes, appearing in 416 games from 2008-2015.

Key Matchups

Projected Starting Goalies

• Frederik Andersen: 4-3-0; 0.894 Sv%; 2.96 GAA
• Filip Gustavsson: 4-6-1; 0.900 Sv%; 3.11 GAA

Leading Scorers

• Goals - Seth Jarvis (8) / Kirill Kaprizov (8)
• Points - Seth Jarvis & Sebastian Aho (12) / Kirill Kaprizov (18)

Power Play

• Carolina - 11.43% (31st)
• Minnesota - 31.48% (3rd)

Penalty Kill

• Carolina - 83.72% (8th)
• Minnesota - 66.67% (31st)

Hurricanes Projected Lineup

Andrei Svechnikov - Sebastian Aho - Taylor Hall
Nikolaj Ehlers - Logan Stankoven - Jackson Blake
Jordan Martinook - Jordan Staal - Seth Jarvis
Mark Jankowski - Jesperi Kotkaniemi - Bradly Nadeau

Alexander Nikishin - Sean Walker
K'Andre Miller - Jalen Chatfield
Mike Reilly - Joel Nystrom

Frederik Andersen
Pyotr Kochetkov

Injuries and Scratches: Brandon Bussi, Charles Alexis Legault, Jaccob Slavin (LBI), Shayne Gostisbehere (UBI), William Carrier (LBI), Eric Robinson (UBI)

Wild Projected Lineup

Kirill Kaprizov - Marco Rossi - Marcus Johansson
Matt Boldy - Joel Eriksson Ek - Vladimir Tarasenko
Marcus Foligno - Ryan Hartman - Vinnie Hinostroza
Yakov Trenin - Ben Jones - Tyler Pitlick

Jacob Middleton - Jarden Spurgeon
Jonas Brodin - Brock Faber
Zeev Buium - Daemon Hunt

Filip Gustavsson
Jesper Wallstedt

Injuries and Scratches: Mats Zuccarello (LBI), Nico Sturm (back), Zach Bogosian (LBI)

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