{"id":183331,"date":"2026-05-04T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183331\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:46:37","slug":"carolina-brings-1-0-lead-into-game-2-against-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183331\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina brings 1-0 lead into game 2 against Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> (43-27-12, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> (53-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n

Raleigh, North Carolina; Monday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Hurricanes -262, Flyers +212; over\/under is 5.5<\/p>\n

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NHL PLAYOFFS SECOND ROUND: Hurricanes lead series 1-0<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Carolina Hurricanes host the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round of the NHL Playoffs with a 1-0 lead in the series. The teams meet Saturday for the sixth time this season. The Hurricanes won the last meeting 3-0. Logan Stankoven<\/a> scored two goals in the victory.<\/p>\n

Carolina<\/a> is 53-22-7 overall with a 21-4-2 record in Metropolitan Division play. The Hurricanes rank second in league play with 291 total goals (averaging 3.6 per game).<\/p>\n

Philadelphia is 16-12-5 against the Metropolitan Division and 43-27-12 overall. The Flyers have given up 239 goals while scoring 240 for a +1 scoring differential.<\/p>\n

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TOP PERFORMERS: Sebastian Aho<\/a> has scored 27 goals with 53 assists for the Hurricanes. Stankoven has nine goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Christian Dvorak<\/a> has 18 goals and 33 assists for the Flyers. Porter Martone has four goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Hurricanes: 9-0-1, averaging 3.5 goals, 6.3 assists, 5.2 penalties and 12.6 penalty minutes while giving up 1.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Flyers: 7-3-0, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.7 assists, 5.5 penalties and 15 penalty minutes while giving up 1.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Hurricanes: Alexander Nikishin<\/a>: day to day (concussion).<\/p>\n

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Flyers: Owen Tippett<\/a>: day to day (undisclosed), Rodrigo Abols<\/a>: out (ankle), Nikita Grebenkin<\/a>: out (upper body).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers (43-27-12, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (53-22-7, in the Metropolitan Division) Raleigh, North Carolina;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66274,24917,10171,37797,65140,1251,27228,1828,46824,69,4845,71,70,40288,78331,66261],"class_list":["post-183331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-alexander-nikishin","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-christian-dvorak","tag-logan-stankoven","tag-metropolitan-division","tag-nikita-grebenkin","tag-north-carolina","tag-owen-tippett","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-raleigh","tag-rodrigo-abols","tag-sebastian-aho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}