Tonight at 10:00 p.m. ET, the Carolina Hurricanes (13-12-5, 31 points) and Vancouver Canucks (17-10-5, 39 points) hit the ice at Rogers Arena in Vancouver in the second and final matchup against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Carolina fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action on 99.9 The Fan while Vancouver can do the same on TEAM 1410.
Carolina embarks on a three-game road trip and has won three straight games while Vancouver enters play with a four-game winning streak. The first time these two teams met, the Canucks dropped the Hurricanes 3-2 in North Carolina on Dec. 1.
The Canucks fourth win in a row came at home against the Colorado Avalanche with a 3-1 victory on Sunday night.
"If you want to be successful in this league, you've got to be able to hold onto leads, and tonight we did it the right way," Mike Santorelli, who has three goals and seven points in his last six games, said per NHL.com. "We wanted to come out strong and not look at the time, and that's what we did."
Santorelli is fourth on the team with 21 points off of eight goals and 13 assists while Ryan Kesler ranks third with 15 tallies and eight helpers for 23 points and the Sedin twins are the top two scorers on the team as Daniel ranks second by lighting the lamp 10 times and adding 18 assists for 28 points and Henrik is first with 29 points by finding the back of the net eight times and adding 21 helpers.
The Hurricanes continued their winning streak on Friday with a 5-3 win at home over the San Jose Sharks and the team was led by 19-year-old Elias Lindholm, who had a goal and two assists and was drafted by Carolina in the 2013 NHL Draft.
"That's the player we drafted," coach Kirk Muller said of Lindholm, who was the fifth player selected at the 2013 NHL Draft, according to NHL.com. "He's smart, he's got hockey sense, and he can make plays in small areas. That was a lot of fun seeing him get some results tonight, and I think that's going to be a big confidence builder."
The Hurricanes have been led up front by captain Eric Staal, who has a four-game point streak and 23 points off of seven goals and 16 assists while Jeff Skinner has lit the lamp nine times and added eight assists for 17 points and Andrej Sekera has found the back of the net six times and added 10 helpers for 16 points.
In net, Cam Ward is 5-5-4 for Carolina with a 2.91 goals-against average and a .906 save percentage while Roberto Luongo is 14-8-5 with a 2.28 GAA and a .918 save percentage for Vancouver.
The Hurricanes look for their fourth straight win while the Canucks look to push their win streak to five games when the lights come on at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver tonight.
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