The Carolina Hurricanes (45-15-8, 98 points, 1st Metro) pay a visit to the Big Apple on Tuesday to play the New York Rangers (41-19-10, 92 points, 3rd Metro). Carolina defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 5-4 on Saturday in overtime. Sebastian Aho scored a hat trick for the Hurricanes and Carolina has won two of its last three. Carolina is first in the Metropolitan Division. New York defeated the Nashville Predators 7-0 on Sunday, scoring six goals in the first period. The Rangers have won four straight and are third in the Metropolitan division, 12 points ahead of the fourth place New York Islanders. The top three in each division earn an automatic berth into the postseason. Carolina will play without Jake Gardiner, Ondrej Kase, Max Pacioretty and Antti Raanta. Ne w York will play without Ryan Lindgren.
Carolina is scoring an average of 3.31 goals per game which is 12th highest in the NHL, while allowing an average of 2.56 goals per game which is second best. Carolina takes an average of 34.9 shots per game which is third highest and is allowing an average of only 25.7 shots per game which is the best in the NHL. Carolina’s power play is scoring 20.9% of the time the Hurricanes have the man advantage which is 16th, while the Carolina penalty kill unit is second best, holding opponents scoreless 83.6% of the time the Hurricanes are short-handed.
Sebastian Aho is the leading goal scorer for Carolina with 30, while Martin Necas is second with 27. Carolina has 11 players that have scored 10 goals or more this season. The leader in assists is Brent Burns with 40 and Necas is a close second with 37. Necas is the points leader with 64 and Aho is second with 58. Carolina has scored 46 goals on the power play in 68 games. Frederick Andersen is 18-7-0 with a 2.47 goals against average, .902 save percentage and one shutout, while back up Pyotr Kochetkov is 11-6-5 with a 2.38 goals against average, .909 save percentage and four shutouts.
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