NHL Playoff Preview: Florida Panthers at Carolina Hurricanes with Line Combinations 5/22/2025

 Florida Panthers (9-4-0) at Carolina Hurricanes (8-2-1) 

Venue: Lenovo Center
Date: Thursday, May 22
Time: 8:00 pm EST
TV: TNT/truTV/MAX/Sportsnet
Radio:
Florida – 560 AM WQAM
Carolina – 99.9 The Fan

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Florida+1.5 ML +110
Carolina -1.5 ML -130
O/U 5.5

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Florida Panthers News & Notes:

The Panthers took game one with a 5-2 win on Tuesday night. They are averaging 3.8 goals per game while allowing 2.4 goals per game. Sergei Bobrovsky is posting a 2.29 goals-against average, a .905 save percentage, and two shutouts. He stopped 31 of the 33 shots he faced on Tuesday.

Carolina Hurricanes News & Notes:

The Hurricanes look to even the series tonight before heading to Sunrise. They are averaging 3.3 goals per game in the playoffs while allowing 2.1 goals per game. Frederik Andersen is posting a 1.74 goals-against average with a .919 save percentage and a shutout. He stopped 15 of the 20 shots he faced in game one.

Florida Panthers Projected Lines

Rodrigues-Barkov-Reinhart
Verhaeghe-Bennett-Tkachuk
Luostarinen-Lundell-Marchand
Greer-Nosek-Gadjovich

Forsling-Ekblad
Mikkola-Jones
Schmidt-Kulikov

Bobrovsky
Vanecek

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Carolina Hurricanes Projected Lines

Svechnikov-Aho-Jarvis
Hall-Roslovic-Stankoven
Martinook-Staal-Carrier
Robinson-Kotkaniemi-Blake

Slavin-Burns
Orlov-Walker
Gostisbehere-Morrow

Andersen
Kochetkov

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Players To Watch:

Florida Panthers

Carter Verhaeghe this season had 53 points on 20 goals and 33 assists. In the playoffs he has ten points on five goals and five assists. In the three games against Carolina in the regular season he had a goal and an assist.

Carolina Hurricanes

Sebastian Aho had 74 points this season on 29 goals and 45 assists. In the playoffs, he has 11 points on four goals and seven assists. This season in three regular-season games against Florida, he had an assist.

Injury Report:

Florida Panthers

None

Carolina Hurricanes

F Jesper Fast – IR
D Jalen Chatfield – DTD
F Mark Jankowski – DTD

Next Game

Game 3: Saturday, May 24 at Amerant Bank Arena

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