{"id":170661,"date":"2026-02-26T22:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170661\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T22:41:23","slug":"projected-lineup-february-26-vs-tampa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/170661\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected Lineup: February 26 vs. Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211;\u00a0The Carolina Hurricanes are expected to have their full complement of skaters available as they return to NHL action against the Tampa Bay Lightning tonight.<\/p>\n<p>That includes each of the team&#8217;s Olympians, despite\u00a0Sebastian Aho\u00a0having the morning off, as well as\u00a0Eric Robinson, who missed the team&#8217;s last seven games before the Olympic break with an upper-body concern.<\/p>\n<p>Skating alongside\u00a0William Carrier and\u00a0Jesperi Kotkaniemi during morning skate, the 30-year-old Robinson will look to pick up where he left off after breaching the double-digit mark in goals for the fourth time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>In net,\u00a0Brandon Bussi is likely to get the first game out of the break. The first-year standout has won seven straight starts, including a shutout showing in New York on Feb. 5.<\/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\/Kotkaniemi\u00a0&#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>Bussi<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Injuries<\/p>\n<p>Pyotr Kochetkov (Hip Surgery | &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/news\/preview-december-29-vs-ny-rangers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Likely Out For The Year<\/a>&#8221; as of Dec. 29)<\/p>\n<p>Scratches<\/p>\n<p>Mark Jankowski\/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":"RALEIGH, N.C. &#8211;\u00a0The Carolina Hurricanes are expected to have their full complement of skaters available as they return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-170661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}