{"id":724190,"date":"2026-06-09T01:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724190\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:40:08","slug":"hurricanes-goalie-frederik-andersen-misses-practice-for-maintenance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724190\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen misses practice for &#8216;maintenance day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andersen was not on the ice as he took a maintenance day, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/2064068883133391150?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The netminder was pulled during Carolina&#8217;s 5-4 double-overtime defeat in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday. He gave up four goals, including all three of Mitch Marner&#8217;s hat trick, in the second period and was replaced by <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"119ce4f9-d0b7-4d2d-8398-dc4c0f28f796\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/brandon-bussi\/119ce4f9-d0b7-4d2d-8398-dc4c0f28f796\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brandon Bussi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen has served as Carolina&#8217;s starter over the course of the team&#8217;s run to the Stanley Cup Final. Saturday marked Bussi&#8217;s first career post-season appearance.<\/p>\n<p>During the regular season, Andersen and Bussi split the net relatively evenly, with Andersen posting a 3.05 goals-against average and an .874 save percentage over 35 games and Bussi putting up a 2.47 goals-against average and an .895 save percentage across 39 games.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lukefoxjukebox\/status\/2064085666099794082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reporters<\/a>, Carolina coach Rod Brind&#8217;Amour said he has decided on a starter between Andersen and Bussi for Tuesday, but is keeping that information secret for now.<\/p>\n<p>Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Hurricanes and <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"vegas-golden-knights\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> goes Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET \/ 5 p.m. PT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andersen was not on the ice as he took a maintenance day, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reported. The netminder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-724190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}