Carolina Hurricanes at Toronto Maple Leafs: Lineups and Game Discussion

As the Hurricanes look to extend their win streak to two games and push their lead atop the Metropolitan Division to three points tonight, they’ll go with a similar lineup to Tuesday night’s home win over Winnipeg, though Pyotr Kochetkov could start in net with the team rotating goalies.

Hurricanes projected lineup

Jesse Puljujarvi — Sebastian Aho — Seth Jarvis
Teuvo Teravainen — Jesperi Kotkaniemi — Martin Necas
Jordan Martinook — Jordan Staal — Jesper Fast
Derek Stepan — Jack Drury — Stefan Noesen

Jaccob Slavin — Brent Burns
Brady Skjei — Brett Pesce
Shayne Gostisbehere — Dylan Coghlan

Pyotr Kochetkov
Frederik Andersen

Scratched: Paul Stastny, Calvin de Haan

Injured: Jalen Chatfield (upper body), Max Pacioretty (torn Achilles), Ondrej Kase (concussion), Andrei Svechnikov (knee surgery), Antti Raanta (groin)

Maple Leafs projected lineup

Calle Jarnkrok — Auston Matthews — Mitchell Marner
Michael Bunting — John Tavares — William Nylander
Zach Aston-Reese — David Kampf — Noel Acciari
Alexander Kerfoot — Sam Lafferty

Morgan Rielly — TJ Brodie
Mark Giordano — Timothy Liljegren
Jake McCabe — Luke Schenn
Erik Gustafsson

Ilya Samsonov
Matt Murray

Scratched: Justin Holl, Conor Timmins, Wayne Simmonds, Alex Steeves

Injured: Jake Muzzin (neck), Victor Mete (upper body), Nicholas Robertson (shoulder), Ryan O’Reilly (broken finger), Carl Dahlstrom (shoulder)