What - Game 5 (3-1-0)
When - 10 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19
Where - Climate Pledge Arena; Seattle, WA
How to Watch - Bally Sports South
The Carolina Hurricanes will be taking on the Seattle Kraken for the fifth time ever Thursday night at Climate Pledge Arena.
The Kraken will be a desperate team as they're now winless in four games to start the season.
The offense — which was second in the league in shooting percentage last season (11.6%) — has completely dried up, with the team having scored just three goals across their four games (their shooting percentage this year is currently 2.4%).
In fact, only one player on their team even has two points (Vince Dunn has two assists).
However, their goaltending has performed well despite the lack of support, with starter Philipp Grubauer having a 0.909 save percentage through three games and backup Joey Daccord having a 0.960 through one.
The Hurricanes enter tonight's contest in a three-way tie for the league lead in scoring, with both 19 goals total and scoring 4.75 goals per game.
The Hurricanes have 13 players who would lead the Kraken in scoring and Brady Skjei (6 points) has just one fewer point than the Seattle's whole team.
However, on the flip side, Carolina is also tied for 29th in the league for goals against per game (4.25) and have allowed the most goals in total on the year (17).
The Canes have been improving overall though over the last five period of game action, so we should perhaps expect to see those numbers improve.
Streak Watch
- Teuvo Teravainen has points (5) in four straight games.
- Brady Skjei has points (6) in four straight games.
- Brent Burns has points (3) in three straight games.
Milestone Watch
- Jordan Staal is one point shy of 400 career points as a Carolina Hurricane.
- If Brent Burns scores tonight, he will have scored a goal against all 32 current NHL franchises.
Game Notes
- The Hurricanes are 3-1-0 all-time against the Kraken.
- Jaccob Slavin scored a shorthanded goal last game, pulling him into a tie with Mark Howe for the franchise record for shorthanded goals by a defenseman (4).
- The Canes also lead the league with four shorthanded goals in four games.
- The Hurricanes are second in the league in penalties taken (26), but first in the league in penalties drawn (29).
Hurricanes Projected Lineup*
Michael Bunting - Teuvo Teravainen - Martin Necas
Stefan Noesen - Jesperi Kotkaniemi - Seth Jarvis
Jordan Martinook - Jordan Staal - Jesper Fast
Brendan Lemieux - Jack Drury
Jaccob Slavin - Brent Burns
Brady Skjei - Brett Pesce
Dmitry Orlov - Jalen Chatfield
Tony DeAngelo
Antti Raanta
Pyotr Kochetkov*
Injuries and Scratches: Andrei Svechnikov (knee), Vasily Ponomarev (knee), Ryan Suzuki (shoulder), Sebastian Aho* (UBI), Frederik Andersen* (UBI)
*The Carolina Hurricanes will practice at 2 p.m. EST so we'll get a better idea then the status of Aho and Andersen.
Kraken Projected Lineup
Jared McCann - Matty Beniers - Jordan Eberle
Jaden Schwartz - Alex Wennberg - Oliver Bjorkstrand
Eeli Tolvanen - Yanni Gourde - Andre Burakovsky
Tye Kartye - Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - Kailer Yamamoto
Vince Dunn - Adam Larsson
Jamie Oleksiak - Will Borgen
Brian Dumoulin - Justin Schultz
Philipp Grubauer
Joey Daccord
Injuries and Scratches: Brandon Tanev (LBI), Jaycob Megna
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