Carolina Hurricanes (8-6-1) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (8-7-1)

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Alright guys, I won't be here with you tonight because I made the trip down from college to come back home so I could go to the game tonight.

Because there is not much info out yet, this game day thread is going to be a little makeshift.

Any who, tonight is an important one. The SED lead is riding on this game and once again the Canes will be missing a lot of bodies. Skinner, Brent, and McBain are definitely no goes and as far as I know, so are Pitkanen and Gleason. However, Skinner did skate this morning in a yellow (non-contact) jersey.

The lineups have not been announced but a few people have leaked info that Andreas Nodl will be the healthy extra tonight (not sure why, as he has been playing great so far) and Jeremy Welsh will be centering the fourth line.

The Canes will roll with Dan Ellis in net tonight (thank God) and his counterpart will be Mathieu Garon who happens to be 1-3 on this young season (his only win on the season comes against the Canes).

In other news, the Lightning will be without Ryan Malone tonight as they have sent him to IR.

With that said... GO CANES

[iamcline]

Thank goodness we're going with Ellis. C'mon Canes! Need half price pizza tomorrow for the 500!

[Goosfraba21]

Go Canes!!! Big game tonight. Win or lose we will have half off pizza for the 500

[Goosfraba21]

Ellis with some great saves already

[Goosfraba21]

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[KillerKat]

If Cam were in net, we'd be down 3-0 already

[KillerKat]

Semin is now hurt. Great.

[Goosfraba21]

Looks to be ok thank god

[Goosfraba21]

God damn Garon fug you

[DirtyMagic97]

What the fug is Semin doing? Taking awful shots.

[DirtyMagic97]

Holy rocket.

[Goosfraba21]

This team is junk right now

[KillerKat]

Most of these goals have been surprise goals. Our D is aweful. Ellis is a good backup, the problem is we don't have a reliable starter. He made some great saves tonight, but Tampa has just had too many chances in our zone with surprise goals that he can't handle.

[Goosfraba21]

If we don't get healthy soon may just kiss the playoffs goodbye. No solid number one goalie. A make shift defense. Too many roster fillers and not enough good talent. Freaking sucks. That road trip is a distant memory now