Carolina Hurricanes @ Seattle Kraken: Lineups, Game Preview and How to Watch

What – Game 7 (4-2-0)
When – 10 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 26
Where – Climate Pledge Arena; Seattle, WA
How to Watch – FanDuel Sports Network South

The Carolina Hurricanes take on the Seattle Kraken (4-3-1) tonight in their penultimate game of their season-long six-game road trip.

The Canes are coming off of two straight wins in Alberta (3-2 OTW over Edmonton and 4-2 W over Calgary) and they’ll look to add a fourth road win to their belt.

The Hurricanes have continued to see success on special teams since hitting the road and their top players are really standing out, especially Sebastian Aho and Martin Necas who lead the team in points.

The Kraken have lost their last two but have seen a big uptick in their scoring rate from last season. Whether or not that trend continues though we’ll have to wait and see.

The team has been banking on the goaltending of newly extended goaltender Joey Daccord who has been the only consistently good netminder for Seattle so far.

Streaks

• Sebastian Aho (2g, 5a) and Shayne Gostisbehere (4g, 2a) have points in five straight games.

• Martin Necas (3g, 3a) has back-to-back multi-point games.

Milestone Watch

• Sebastian Aho is one goal away from tying Ron Francis for the franchise record in game-winning goals (57).

• Jordan Martinook is two points shy of 200 career points.

• If Brent Burns scores tonight, he will have scored a goal against all 32 franchises.

• Martin Necas scored career goal 100 in Thursday’s win over Calgary.

• Jordan Martinook played in his 400th game as a Hurricane on Thursday.

• Pyotr Kochetkov registered his first career NHL point on Thursday.

Related: ‘Time To Add A Few More’: Martin Necas Scores 100th Career Goal

Game Notes

• Carolina has an all-time record of 4-2-0 against Seattle.

• Last season, the Canes went 1-1-0 against the Kraken.

• The only cross-team connection is that Kraken GM Ron Francis was also the Hurricanes general manager from 2014-2018, but most notably was a franchise icon having had 1,175 points in 1,186 games with the club. His number ’10’ is retired by the team.

• Sebastian Aho (1g, 5 pts in four games), Shayne Gostisbehere (1g, 7pts in five games) and Martin Necas (3g, 6pts in six games) are point-per-game players against Seattle.

Key Matchups

Starting Goalies

Leading Scorers

Power Play

• Carolina – 29.4% (7th)

• Seattle – 17.4% (22nd)

Penalty Kill

• Carolina – 83.8% (8th)

• Seattle – 75% (25th)

Hurricanes Projected Lineup

Andrei Svechnikov – Sebastian Aho – Jack Roslovic
Eric Robinson – Jesperi Kotkaniemi – Martin Necas
Jordan Martinook – Jordan Staal – Seth Jarvis
William Carrier – Jack Drury – Jackson Blake

Jaccob Slavin – Brent Burns
Dmitry Orlov – Jalen Chatfield
Shayne Gostisbehere – Sean Walker

Frederik Andersen
Pyotr Kochetkov

Injuries and Scratches: Riley Stillman (LBI), Jesper Fast (neck)

Related: Hurricanes Switching Up Forward Lines For Calgary

Kraken Projected Lineup

Jared McCann – Matty Beniers – Jordan Eberle
Jaden Schwartz – Chandler Stephenson – Brandon Tanev
Eeli Tovanen – Yanni Gourde – Oliver Bjorkstrand
Tye Kartye – Shane Wright – Andre Burakovsky

Ryker Evans – Adam Larsson
Jamie Oleksiak – Brandon Montour
Josh Mahura – Will Borgen

Joey Daccord
Philipp Grubauer

Injuries and Scratches: Vince Dunn (UBI)