{"id":585090,"date":"2026-04-06T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585090\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:00:13","slug":"projected-lineup-april-5-at-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/585090\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected Lineup: April 5 at Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA, Ont. &#8211; Goaltender\u00a0Frederik Andersen\u00a0is expected to be in net for the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday when they face the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to earn the same result that his goaltending partner\u00a0Brandon\u00a0Bussi did last night, Andersen should be well rested and ready to go after having to make just nine saves in his most recent outing. Picking up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/topic\/game-coverage\/recap-playoff-bound-canes-batter-blue-jackets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">win over Columbus<\/a> on Thursday, it was his seventh win in 10 starts since the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In front of Andersen, the Canes are not expected to make any changes as they try to clinch a fourth division title in six years. The group can do so if they get at least one point today,\u00a0OR\u00a0with any result in the Penguins-Panthers game other than a Penguins regulation win.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Aho\u00a0enters with points in five straight games and\u00a0Seth Jarvis\u00a0will look to continue his scoring touch, netting his 31st and 32nd goals of the season in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/topic\/game-coverage\/recap-canes-clip-isles-for-third-straight-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">last night&#8217;s victory<\/a> over the New York Islanders at Lenovo Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s Projected Lineup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Forwards<\/p>\n<p>Svechnikov &#8211; Aho &#8211; Jarvis<\/p>\n<p>Hall &#8211; Stankoven &#8211; Blake<\/p>\n<p>Ehlers &#8211; Staal &#8211; Martinook<\/p>\n<p>Carrier &#8211; Jankowski &#8211; Robinson<\/p>\n<p>Defense<\/p>\n<p>Slavin &#8211; Chatfield<\/p>\n<p>Miller &#8211; Walker<\/p>\n<p>Gostisbehere &#8211; Nikishin<\/p>\n<p>Starting Goaltender<\/p>\n<p>Andersen<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Injuries<\/p>\n<p>Pyotr Kochetkov (Hip Surgery | No Timetable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/injury-report-kochetkov-resumes-skating-with-canes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Resumed Skating On Apr. 4<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Scratches<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Deslauriers<\/p>\n<p>Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/p>\n<p>Mike Reilly<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>PP1: Aho, Ehlers (Staal), Jarvis, and Svechnikov with Gostisbehere<\/p>\n<p>PP2: Blake, Hall, Jankowski, and Stankoven with Nikishin<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Staal has been taking the faceoffs with the first power play unit. If he wins it, he&#8217;ll stay on the ice. When the puck comes out of the zone, he jumps off, and Nikolaj Ehlers jumps on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA, Ont. &#8211; Goaltender\u00a0Frederik Andersen\u00a0is expected to be in net for the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday when they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-585090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}