{"id":730831,"date":"2026-06-12T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730831\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:36:08","slug":"carolina-hurricanes-recall-amir-miftakhov-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730831\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes Recall Amir Miftakhov \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the AHL transactions log<\/a>, the Carolina Hurricanes have recalled netminder Amir Miftakhov<\/a> from the AHL\u2019s Chicago Wolves. The roster move comes a few hours before the Hurricanes play the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final, and a day before the Wolves begin the Calder Cup Final against the Toronto Marlies.<\/p>\n

The news is surprising for several reasons. For one, Carolina already has three goaltenders on the active roster, without any public injury updates.<\/p>\n

Carolina had been using Frederik Andersen<\/a> for most of the playoffs, and for good reason. The 36-year-old netminder was nearly unbeatable through the Eastern Conference Final, managing a 12-1-0 record in 13 games with a .931 SV%. Unfortunately, that hasn\u2019t been the case in the Stanley Cup Final, with Andersen owning a 1-1-0 record through three games with a .815 SV%.<\/p>\n

In Game 3, Andersen was hit in the head by Ivan Barbashev<\/a>, causing him to miss Game 4 entirely. Carolina indicated that Andersen was being held out for \u201cmaintenance\u201d, but there\u2019s some belief that he\u2019s dealing with a concussion. Today\u2019s recall of Miftakhov strongly suggests that this is the case.<\/p>\n

Bussi wasn\u2019t sensational in Game 4 by any stretch, though it was enough to earn the win. Assuming the status quo remains the same, Bussi will be in the starter\u2019s crease tonight, with Pyotr Kochetkov<\/a> backing him up. If Andersen is dealing with a concussion, Miftakhov would presumably be the emergency backup netminder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the AHL transactions log, the Carolina Hurricanes have recalled netminder Amir Miftakhov from the AHL\u2019s Chicago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[73656,64,63,3615,575,85,206],"class_list":["post-730831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-amir-miftakhov","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730831","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=730831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}