KRAKEN (9-7-1) vs. HURRICANES (15-3-2)\u00a0<\/p>\n
2026 NHL Global Series Finland<\/p>\n
At Veikkaus Arena, Helsinki<\/p>\n
(1 p.m. ET; HHN, Prime Video, CARNHL, KONG, KING, NHLN, SN1)<\/p>\n
Kraken projected lineup<\/p>\n
Bobby McMann — Matty Beniers — Jordan Eberle<\/p>\n
Kaapo Kakko — Berkly Catton \u2013 Mackie Samoskevich<\/p>\n
Frederick Gaudreau — Chandler Stephenson — Jagger Firkus<\/p>\n
Matthew Wood — Ben Meyers — Ryan Winterton<\/p>\n
Vince Dunn — Adam Larsson<\/p>\n
Ryker Evans — Brandon Montour<\/p>\n
Josh Mahura — Ville Ottavainen<\/p>\n
Joey Daccord<\/p>\n
Philipp Grubauer<\/p>\n
Scratched: Cale Fleury, Jani Nyman, Logan Morrison, Nikke Kokko<\/p>\n
Injured: Jacob Melanson (upper body), Ryan Lindgren (upper body), Jared McCann (lower body), Curtis Douglas (upper body)<\/p>\n
Hurricanes projected lineup<\/p>\n
William Carrier — Sebastian Aho — Andrei Svechnikov<\/p>\n
Nikolaj Ehlers — Logan Stankoven — Jackson Blake<\/p>\n
Seth Jarvis — Jordan Staal — Jordan Martinook<\/p>\n
Taylor Hall — Mark Jankowski — Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/p>\n
Jacob Slavin — Jalen Chatfield<\/p>\n
K\u2019Andre Miller — Sean Walker<\/p>\n
Shayne Gostisbehere — Alexander Nikishin<\/p>\n
Pyotr Kochetkov<\/p>\n
Brandon Bussi<\/p>\n
Scratched: Eric Robinson, Juuso Valimaki, Mike Reilly, Nicolas Deslauriers, Cayden Primeau<\/p>\n
Status report<\/p>\n
Firkus, a second-round pick (No. 35) in the 2022 NHL Draft, could make his NHL debut in place of Nyman, who played only 9:13 in the first game of the Global Series on Thursday. \u2026 Kraken coach Lane Lambert said Lindgren, a defenseman who has not played since Oct. 6, and Melanson, a forward who has not played since Oct. 1, will be game-time decisions. \u2026 \u00a0Staal could return after missing the past 14 games with a torn calf muscle. Hurricanes coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour said a decision will be made Saturday morning \u2026 It appears Nikishin will replace Valimaki after being a healthy scratch Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KRAKEN (9-7-1) vs. HURRICANES (15-3-2)\u00a0 2026 NHL Global Series Finland At Veikkaus Arena, Helsinki (1 p.m. ET; HHN,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":969301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-969300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969300","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=969300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}