What - Game 1
When - 5 p.m., Saturday, April 20
Where - PNC Arena; Raleigh, NC
How to Watch - Bally Sports South, MSGSN, TBS, truTV, MAX, Sportsnet, SN360, TVAS
The Carolina Hurricanes will square off tonight for Game 1 of their first round series against the New York Islanders.
It's what everyone has been waiting all year for, the playoffs.
It's the best time of the year and now it's time to enjoy it.
Carolina, who enters the postseason as the betting favorite, are looking to finally make it past the Eastern Conference Final hump and compete for the Stanley Cup, but they'll have to get past the Islanders again first to do that.
Under new coach Patrick Roy, the Isles have done a complete 180 from where they were in the middle of the year and as a scrappy underdog, they'll be a tough out.
But the Hurricanes have the talent to go all the way, it's just a matter of everyone clicking on the same page.
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Hurricanes Projected Lineup
Jake Guentzel - Sebastian Aho - Seth Jarvis
Teuvo Teravainen - Jesperi Kotkaniemi - Martin Necas
Jordan Martinook - Jordan Staal - Andrei Svechnikov
Jack Drury - Evgeny Kuznetsov - Stefan Noesen
Jaccob Slavin - Brent Burns
Brady Skjei - Brett Pesce
Dmitry Orlov - Jalen Chatfield
Frederik Andersen
Pyotr Kochetkov
Injuries and Scratches: Brendan Lemieux, Tony DeAngelo, Scott Morrow, Bradly Nadeau, Jackson Blake, Spencer Martin, Jesper Fast (UBI)
Islanders Projected Lineup
Casey Cizikas - Bo Horvat - Mat Barzal
Hudson Fasching - Brock Nelson - Kyle Palmieri
Anders Lee - Kyle MacLean - Pierre Engvall
Matt Martin - Cal Clutterbuck - Simon Holmstrom
Alexander Romanov - Noah Dobson
Adam Pelech - Ryan Pulock
Mike Reilly - Robert Bortuzzo
Semyon Varlamov
Ilya Sorokin
Injuries and Scratches: Sebastian Aho, Samuel Bolduc, Ruslan Iskhakov, Oliver Whalstrom, JG Pageau (LBI), Scott Mayfield (LBI)