Harbingers

Tripp gets to punch his card.

So far he’s been solid. We shall see though.

I’m loving Lorentz going toe to toe with Barkov.

Wait. Did he just say bean isn’t on the road trip at all?! Rod must have really dog housed him if true.

We are sloppy. As Fug.

Ummm hello defense? Clear that poo? Ned should have gotten up though. Even if Gardiner missed the block. He laid out and posed.

Solid effort from Paquette much better form, just less punches.

Ugh forgot Florida is a low angle stadium. It’s even worse with the Baileys bar across the bottom.

Could be but there are better teams to do it against. It‘s pretty clear bean is in the dog house after that soft goal against and the PIM time his past two games.

sugar boo.

"FORT LAUDERDALE - After claiming three of a possible four points in Tampa, the Carolina Hurricanes are set to square off against the Florida Panthers to defend first place in the Central Division. The Match-Up Carolina Hurricanes (30-10-5, 65 points) at Florida Panthers (30-12-5, 65 points) Thursday, April 22, 7 p.m. Watch: Bally Sports South, FOX Sports GO Listen: 99.9 FM The Fan, Hurricanes.com/Listen, Hurricanes app Numbers to Know 6: Vincent Trocheck, who has recorded at least a point in 16 of his last 18 games (8g, 14a), has scored in all six games against the Panthers this season. 2016: After Jake Gardiner sparred with Alex Killorn on April 19, Jordan Martinook's fight against Barclay Goodrow the next night marked the first time the Canes have been assessed fighting majors on consecutive nights since Jan. 8-9, 2016 when Brad Malone dropped the gloves against Bradon Dubsinsky and Jared Boll of the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Opposition Last five games: 4-0-1, 9 points At home: 16-4-3, 35 points CAR vs. FLA: 5-0-1 Leading scorer: Jonathan Huberdeau, 49 points (16g, 33a) in 47 games The Panthers enter this game having won three straight and four of their last five games (4-0-1). Spencer Knight turned aside 33 of 34 shots in his NHL debut, backstopping the Panthers to a 5-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday. Florida owns the same number of points in the standings as the Canes (65), but they've played two more games." https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/gameday-preview-florida-panthers-carolina-hurricanes/c-323899794 https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/projected-lineup-carolina-hurricanes-florida-panthers/c-323905472 "Here is the projected lineup for the Hurricanes. Forwards Svechnikov-Aho-Fast Niederreiter-Trocheck-Necas Martinook-Staal-Foegele Paquette-Lorentz-Geekie Defensemen Slavin-Hamilton Gardiner-Pesce Ryan-Hakanpaa Goalies Nedeljkovic Reimer Injuries: McGinn (upper body), Mrazek (lower body), Skjei (concussion), Teravainen (concussion symptoms; injured reserve) Taxi squad: Bean, McCormick, Shore" Lot to unpack here heading into our final two with Florida. They've been winning since they faced us in Raleigh. Looks like Bean has drawn Rods ire as he's a healthy scratch and we are bringing up Ryan.

And Skjei is official in the concussion protocol. Grr. I don’t expect this to be a TT situation though. Probably back mid next week is my guess.

I still want to know what the definition of "First and second-year players and unsigned draft picks are exempt and don’t count towards protection totals" is. Cause the official language differed from the 2017 draft on nhl.com.

Please no. Skjei was coherent and knew what was going on afterwards but doesn’t mean he didn’t have lingering symptoms such as vomiting or headache.

They aren’t first. We still P%. and we hold P% over them h til basically the season is done. TB is next week. Then we are even or flip flop. Florida though not till we go on our three game home stand with Chicago.

Technically 4-3-1-1. But semantics at this point.

Martinook gets that reward.

Holy poo Tampa is gassed.

I like how these refs have had plenty of time to confer with the league and sort poo out. And their response is slashing penalties. Like really?

They are tired.

ya was really hoping to at least hold them to zero going into the third.

I was wondering about that. Injury wise it didn’t look so bad except maybe a broken face. Still should have been called though. Def put some fire under us for sure.

That was on Ned. Gotta deal that short side. Epic puck play right there though.

Oof. Martinook got his ass beat on that one. Hate to say it. He did land a few good head shots before he lost balance though.

Dude Paa deserves an assist on that one even though he didn’t touch the puck.