Brind’Amour said Andersen would not play in Game 1 Monday and there’s no timetable for the Dane’s return.
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The Hurricanes beginning the playoffs without starter Frederik Andersen because of injury threatens to throw off the balance of the series that begins Monday. “We don’t need any kind of extra motivation.” “The good thing with our group is the hunger’s still there,” defenseman Ryan McDonagh said. But after the Lightning saw the big trophy they hoisted twice again recently at the White House amid a late-season surge, they look poised to make another deep run. Tampa Bay’s core has played more high-level hockey than anyone on earth the past two years, and fatigue may take its toll. Their playoff hopes rely on one of them being solid. The Maple Leafs go in with Jack Campbell as their projected starting goalie and Erik Kallgren next in line. Auston Matthews led the league with 60 goals in the regular season and he’s just one star among John Tavares, Mitch Marner and William Nylander. Toronto is due to break through eventually, and much like Florida its success is predicted on scoring. The Maple Leafs haven’t won a playoff series with this core or even gotten past the first round as a franchise since 2004.
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The Lightning have won the Stanley Cup the past two years. Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad also looks in line to return after being out the past six weeks with an upper-body injury. And they’ve done a good job.”Īlex Ovechkin is expected to play for the Capitals after missing the final three games of the regular season with what they’re calling an upper-body injury. “We have counted on and relied on both goaltenders. “They know that just based on the way that it’s been here for two years,” coach Peter Laviolette said. The Capitals are one of a handful of teams with major goaltending questions and are almost expected to use Vitek Vanecek and Ilya Samsonov. Two-time Vezina Trophy winner Sergei Bobrovsky is Florida’s guy in net, though rookie Spencer Knight has played well especially recently and could also see some action. The longer the series goes, the more it benefits Washington, which is a bigger and more physical team that will try to impose its will on an opponent with no recent history of playoff success. Florida has the firepower to blow the Capitals out after leading the league in scoring, and getting through this quickly would be advantageous. The Panthers are -355 favorites on FanDuel Sportsbook, which also has a five-game series as the outcome with the lowest odds.
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“The East is full of really good teams: high offensive, octane teams, and it’s really anyone’s game,” Washington winger Tom Wilson said. The same goes this time around as heavy underdogs against Florida in a stacked bracket with the winner of Tampa Bay-Toronto waiting in the second round. Their first opponent, the Capitals, know that pain all too well after finishing atop the NHL standings in 20 before bowing out in the second round and then winning the Cup the next year when expectations were low. Only one Presidents’ Trophy winner in that time has won the Stanley Cup in an 82-game season over that time. That has been true for almost two decades in the East, where the top seed going into the playoffs has not reached the final since the salary cap era began in 2005. Regardless where you finished after 82, it’s what you do now.”
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“We’ve got to beat everybody at some point,” Panthers coach Andrew Brunette said Sunday.