{"id":868577,"date":"2026-10-02T19:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868577\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:20:08","slug":"projected-lineup-october-2-vs-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868577\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected Lineup: October 2 vs. Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

RALEIGH, N.C. – Brandon Bussi\u00a0is expected to start for the second straight game when the Carolina Hurricanes host the Washington Capitals on Friday.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old stood tall for more than 60 minutes of action before a blue-line blast eluded him during Tuesday’s OT loss to Florida. Finishing with 19 saves on 20 shots, Bussi picked up right where he left off in his stellar 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, we have another game tomorrow night, so pick your poison,” Rod Brind’Amour explained about the decision following morning skate. “We felt like Bus had a really good game (on Tuesday), so we may as well throw him in tonight.”<\/p>\n

In front of him, the team is expected to dress the same lineup that went toe-to-toe with the Panthers on Tuesday.\u00a0K’Andre Miller\u00a0led the team with 25:15 played and three blocks. Andrei Svechnikov\u00a0and Jordan Staal were credited with eight and seven hits, respectively.<\/p>\n

Don’t miss a second of the action tonight as Hurricanes Hockey Network<\/a> makes its official debut.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Tonight’s Projected Lineup…<\/p>\n

Forwards<\/p>\n

Robinson – Aho – Svechnikov<\/p>\n

Hall – Stankoven – Blake<\/p>\n

Ehlers – Staal – Martinook<\/p>\n

Carrier – Jankowski – Deslauriers<\/p>\n

Defense<\/p>\n

Slavin – Chatfield<\/p>\n

Miller – Walker<\/p>\n

Gostisbehere – Legault<\/p>\n

Starting Goaltender<\/p>\n

Bussi<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Injuries<\/p>\n

Seth Jarvis<\/p>\n

Scratches<\/p>\n

Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/p>\n

Mike Reilly<\/p>\n

Cayden Primeau<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

PP1: Aho, Blake, Ehlers (Staal), and\u00a0Svechnikov with Gostisbehere<\/p>\n

PP2: Ehlers, Hall,\u00a0Jankowski (Staal), and Stankoven with Miller<\/p>\n

Jordan Staal has been taking the faceoffs to start most power plays. If he wins it, he’ll stay on the ice. When the puck comes out of the zone, he jumps off, and Nikolaj Ehlers jumps on with the first unit. When with the second unit, Mark\u00a0Jankowski jumps on when Staal goes off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. – Brandon Bussi\u00a0is expected to start for the second straight game when the Carolina Hurricanes host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-868577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}