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Both the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes will look a little different when they meet up tonight in Sunrise for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference final.
Florida will be without one of its top scorers: Sam Reinhart, who got tripped by Sebastian Aho in the first period of Game 2 and did not return, will not play tonight. Coach Paul Maurice said he is ‘day-to-day.’
Jesper Boqvist gets back into the lineup on the right side of the top line.
Carolina will be making a big change in net.
Frederik Anderson gave up 12 goals in his first nine playoff games but nine to the Panthers in two, has been replaced by Pyotr Kochetkov.
Kochetkov came in for the third period of Thursday’s 5-0 loss, giving up a power-play goal to Sasha Barkov. He made four saves on five shots in the third.
During the regular season, Kochetkov won his only start against the Panthers, making 25 saves in a 3-1 win on Jan. 2.
Florida holds a 2-0 advantage in the best-of-7 series.
“Just change the vibe a little bit,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said of switching goalies. “I don’t blame Freddy on any of the goals that went in. … We do need some saves, but I can’t blame him on any of them. All the goals have been great shots or plays by them.”
17 Evan Rodrigues // 16 Sasha Barkov // 70 Jesper Boqvist
23 Carter Verhaeghe // 9 Sam Bennett // 19 Matthew Tkachuk
27 Eetu Luostarinen // 15 Anton Lundell // 63 Brad Marchand
10 A.J. Greer // 92 Tomas Nosek // 12 Jonah Gadjovich
42 Gus Forsling // 5 Aaron Ekblad
77 Niko Mikkola // 3 Seth Jones
88 Nate Schmidt // 7 Dmitry Kulikov
72 Sergei Bobrovsky
41 Vitek Vanecek
Scratched: Mackie Samoskevich, Nico Sturm, Uvis Balinskis, Jaycob Megna, Evan Cormier
Injured: Sam Reinhart (lower body)
37 Andrei Svechnikov // 20 Sebastian Aho // 24 Seth Jarvis
71 Taylor Hall // 82 Jesperi Kotkaniemi // 22 Logan Stankoven
48 Jordan Martinook // 11 Jordan Staal // 28 William Carrier
50 Eric Robinson // 77 Mark Jankowski // 53 Jackson Blake
74 Jaccob Slavin // 8 Brent Burns
7 Dmitry Orlov // 26 Sean Walker
4 Shayne Gostisbehere // 56 Scott Morrow
52 Pyotr Kochetkov
31 Frederik Andersen
Scratched: Tyson Jost, Riley Stillman, Juha Jaaska, Jack Roslovic, Alexander Nikishin, Ty Smith, Spencer Martin
Injured: Jalen Chatfield (undisclosed)
Carolina Hurricanes lines provided by NHL.com
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