Defending champion Panthers open weekend home and home series against the East leading Hurricanes
After Snapping a four-game losing skid on Wednesday, the defending Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers head to Raleigh for a Black Friday matinee against the Carolina Hurricanes in the first of two meetings between the Eastern Conference foes this weekend. Carolina has won five of their last seven games and owns the best record in the East as they look for their 10th consecutive win on home ice this season after suffering an opening night loss to Tampa Bay. This is the first of three meetings between the clubs this season with the second game coming on Saturday afternoon at Florida.
How to Watch Florida Panthers at Carolina Hurricanes:
Game Date: Nov. 29, 2024
Game Time: 3:00 p.m. ET
TV Channel: FanDuel Sports Network South
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Panthers center Sam Reinhart leads the league with 17 goals this season with 12 of those goals coming in his last 14 games. Reinhart, who was the number two overall selection in the 2014 NHL Draft, is tied for sixth in the NHL with 32 points this season and comes into this game two assists shy of 300 for his career.
Leading the league in points, Carolina center Martin Necas has a team-high 25 assists and enters the weekend on a four-game points streak having tallied a goal and six assists in that span. Necas is having a breakout season and is on pace to obliterate his career high in both goals and assists that he established during the 2022-23 campaign.
Carolina ranks in the top three in the NHL in both goals allowed per game and goals scored per game and is in the top seven on the power play and penalty kill.
The Hurricanes have won each of the last two meetings in shutout fashion, blanking the Panthers in consecutive trips to the Lenovo Center and the home team has won five consecutive games in this series.
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