Jets @ Hurricanes: Game Day Preview

by Bob Wage on Jan 23, 2012 3:47 PM EST in Carolina Hurricanes Game Day Previews

WINNIPEG, CANADA - OCTOBER 22: Former Cane, Andrew Ladd #16 of the Winnipeg Jets skates on the ice in a game against the Carolina Hurricanes in NHL action at the MTS Centre on October 22, 2011 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (Photo by Marianne Helm/Getty Images)

The Carolina Hurricanes, (17-24-9) will play their final game before the All Star Break tonight as they take on division rival, the Winnipeg Jets, (22-20-6) tonight at the RBC.

The Hurricanes are coming off a tough, 2-1 overtime loss against the Islanders on Saturday night. The Jets also lost Saturday night, 4-3 in a shootout to Florida.

Expect the lines to be the same as against the Islanders:

Tlusty, Staal, Ruutu
Dwyer, Sutter, Nodl
Jokinen, Skinner, Dalpe
Stewart, Brent, LaRose
Gleason, Allen
Harrison, Faulk
McBain, Joslin

Cam Ward will be facing Chris Mason in net. Mason has three wins against Carolina in all three meetings between the teams so far this season.

	GP	MIN	W	L	EGA	GA	GAA	SA	SV	SV%	SO
2011 - Cam Ward	43	2497	17	17		121	2.91	1315	1194	.908	2

	GP	MIN	W	L	EGA	GA	GAA	SA	SV	SV%	SO
2011 - Chris Mason	13	601	6	4		23	2.30	263	240	.913	2

According to Arctic Ice Hockey, the lines for the Jets tonight will be as follows:

Forwards

#8 Alexander Burmistrov -- #18 Bryan Little -- #26 Blake Wheeler

#16 Andrew Ladd -- #80 Nik Antropov -- #13 Kyle Wellwood

#15 Tanner Glass -- #19 Jim Slater -- #22 Chris Thorburn

#17 Eric Fehr -- #28 Patrice Cormier -- #20 Antti Miettinen

Defencemen

#39 Tobias Enstrom -- #6 Ron Hainsey

#29 Johnny Oduya -- #4 Zach Bogosian

#5 Mark Stuart -- #12 Randy Jones

Goaltender

#50 Chris Mason

Evander Kane and Dustin Byfuglien are both out.

As mentioned above, the Hurricanes have yet to beat Winnipeg is three tries this season. They are 3-8-2 overall against the Southeast Division.

The game will be televised locally by FS Carolinas. Brian and I will be reporting live from press row on our Open Thread/Live Blog starting at 6:30.

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I think it’s a good night for the Canes to change their fortunes against the Jets this season. Canes are a much different team at least in their game now since they last faced off with the Winnipeg. With Evander Kane out at least improves the odds for collecting another point if not 2. LETS GO CANES!

Megaweapon… Megaweapon… Megaweapon…

by Kid CHUD on Jan 23, 2012 4:12 PM EST reply actions

Yeah, let’s hope so. As bad as we are, I’m still kinda surprised we’ve been as bad as we have against the division so far.

"I'm not going to waste my time with Tuukka Rask" - Cam Ward

by anonymousJ on Jan 23, 2012 4:18 PM EST up reply actions

3-0 against the Bruins, but still in the league basement says a lot.

by Iggy Reilly on Jan 23, 2012 4:30 PM EST up reply actions

Ha, I know what you mean. If you would have told me at this point in the season that we were 5-0 against Boston, Chicago and Vancouver I would have thought we were having a real solid year.

"I'm not going to waste my time with Tuukka Rask" - Cam Ward

by anonymousJ on Jan 23, 2012 5:09 PM EST up reply actions