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Pre-game Report (Game 6): CAR vs CBJ

October 12, 2019, 5:26 PM ET [1 Comments]
Ben Shelley
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The Carolina Hurricanes (once again) look to stay perfect tonight, as they host the Columbus Blue Jackets.

According to NHL.com’s Kurt Dusterberg, the projected lineups are:

COLUMBUS

Gustav Nyquist - Pierre-Luc Dubois - Cam Atkinson
Alexandre Texier - Alexander Wennberg - Oliver Bjorkstrand
Nick Foligno - Boone Jenner - Emil Bemstrom
Jakob Lilja - Riley Nash - Sonny Milano

Zach Werenski - Seth Jones
Ryan Murray - Markus Nutivaara
Vladislav Gavrikov - David Savard

Elvis Merzlikins
Joonas Korpisalo


CAROLINA

Nino Niederreiter - Sebastian Aho - Teuvo Teravainen
Andrei Svechnikov - Jordan Staal - Brock McGinn
Ryan Dzingel - Erik Haula - Martin Necas
Warren Foegele - Lucas Wallmark - Julien Gauthier

Jaccob Slavin - Dougie Hamilton
Joel Edmundson - Brett Pesce
Jake Gardiner - Haydn Fleury

James Reimer
Petr Mrazek


The Blue Jackets are without a key forward as Josh Anderson is out with a back injury, while Trevor van Riemsdyk remains sidelined for Carolina and Julien Gauthier replaces Jordan Martinook.

Columbus comes in to the game with a 1-3 record and the Hurricanes are probably not the team you want to play against right now to try to change that. Elvis Merzlikins draws in for the Blue Jackets after being lit up for seven goals against Pittsburgh last week. James Reimer is expected to start his third game with the Hurricanes, entering with a .940 save percentage.

For the Hurricanes, this is probably a good team to be playing on the second half of a back-to-back. The Blue Jackets also played last night and are a weaker team who's missing a productive forward.

Puck drop is at 7 p.m.


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OTHER HURRICANES ARTICLES FROM OCTOBER

Game Recap (Game 5): CAR vs NYI

Game Recap (Game 4): CAR @ FLA

Game Recap (Game 3): CAR vs TBL

Game Recap (Game 2): CAR @ WSH

Game Recap (Game 1): CAR vs MTL

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