The game between the Carolina Hurricanes and New Jersey Devils will take place at PNC Arena on Wednesday, May 3 at 7:00 PM ET.
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The Carolina Hurricanes will welcome the New Jersey Devils to PNC Arena for an NHL game on Wednesday. The Carolina Hurricanes won 1-2 in their last game over the Islanders. As Paul Stastny approached the goal line in the corner, he just decided to fling it toward the net. It went in, and the Carolina Hurricanes are moving on to the second round of the playoffs again.
Stastny scored 6 minutes into overtime, and the Hurricanes beat the New York Islanders 2-1 on Friday night in Game 6 to advance to the second round for the third straight year and fourth in the last five. Derek Stepan started the winning sequence when he intercepted Islanders defenseman Adam Pelech’s clearing pass. Stepan skated up and passed to Stastny, who fired a sharp-angle shot from the goal line that deflected off Sorokin’s left pad and between his legs.
“Once Steps kept it in I knew Steps would get it to me,” Stastny said. “I tried to attack. I was thinking I’d have 2-on-1. Once Jesse (Puljujarvi) started coming towards me instead of staying wide, then I figured I’m just going to shoot it without looking. Done it in practice before. … Just the element of surprise. Get lucky some times, and was fortunate to go in.”
The New Jersey Devils on the other hand won 4-0 against the Rangers in their last game. The New Jersey Devils surprised a lot of hockey experts this past season in going from an NHL also-ran to one of the top teams in the league. The Devils unleashed another stunner to open the playoffs against their river-rival New York Rangers — 22-year-old Swiss goaltender Akira Schmid. Schmid rebounded from his only bad game and made 31 saves in Game 7 to lead the Devils to a 4-0 victory over the Rangers on Monday night in an wildly entertaining series.
“We believe in each other,” Devils captain Nico Hischier said. “We knew even last year didn’t go our way, lots of injuries, we have a good group here. And we got a lot of good characters here. We’re a team that plays with a lot of speed and it’s hard to handle if you do that.” Coming off a franchise best 52-win season, the Devils will open the Eastern Conference semifinals on Wednesday against the Metropolitan Division-winning Hurricanes in Raleigh, North Carolina. Game 2 in the best-of-seven series is on Friday night.
Sebastian Aho – Brett Pesce – Paul Stastny
Derek Stepan – Frederik Andersen – Brent Burns
Jalen Chatfield – Jesper Fast – Shayne Gostisbehere
Seth Jarvis – Jesperi Kotkaniemi
MacKenzie MacEachern – Jordan Martinook
Martin Nečas – Stefan Noesen
Jesse Puljujärvi – Brady Skjei
Jaccob Slavin
Jordan Staal
John Marino – Ondřej Palát – Jesper Bratt
Erik Haula – Nico Hischier – Jack Hughes
Michael McLeod – Tomáš Tatar – Kevin Bahl
Nathan Bastian – Ryan Graves
Dougie Hamilton – Timo Meier
Dawson Mercer – Akira Schmid
Damon Severson- Yegor Sharangovich
Jonas Siegenthaler
Miles Wood
Carolina Hurricanes: Jack Drury, Teuvo Teravainen, Max Pacioretty, Ondrej Kase, Andrei Svechnikov, Jake Gardiner
New Jersey Devils: Jonathan Bernier
The game between the Carolina Hurricanes and New Jersey Devils will take place at PNC Arena on Wednesday, May 3 at 7:00 PM ET.
The match between the Carolina Hurricanes and New Jersey Devils will be telecast live on ESPN.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | ESPN | May 3 (7:00 PM ET) |
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