2025 NHL Playoffs: Preview For Panthers-Hurricanes Game 5

“2025 NHL playoffs: Preview for Panthers-Hurricanes Game 5”

All indicators pointed to the Florida Panthers ending off the Carolina Hurricanes in Recreation 4, however the Canes saved the collection rolling with a 3-0 win on Monday.

Will the Panthers end the story in Recreation 5? Or will the Hurricanes ship the festivities again to South Florida once more?

Listed here are matchup notes heading into Wednesday’s Recreation 5 from ESPN Analysis, in addition to betting intel from ESPN BET:

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Matchup notes

Florida Panthers at Carolina Hurricanes
Recreation 5 | 8 p.m. ET | TNT

The Panthers’ odds to win the collection at the moment are -1600, adjusted from -5000 heading into Recreation 4. The Hurricanes’ odds have shifted to +750 (adjusted from +1500) after their win. The Panthers’ odds to win the Cup at the moment are +105 (beforehand -110), whereas the Canes’ at the moment are +1800. Sergei Bobrovsky is the main Conn Smythe candidate on this collection at +200, adopted by Aleksander Barkov (+800).

Recreation 4 was the Canes’ first win within the spherical since Recreation 7 of the 2006 Jap Convention finals in opposition to the Buffalo Sabres, snapping a 15-game convention finals dropping streak. It was the longest dropping streak in NHL playoff historical past for a workforce within the spherical previous the Stanley Cup Last. The Hurricanes at the moment are 4-4 all-time in Recreation 4s when trailing 3-0 in a best-of-seven collection.

Frederik Andersen made 20 saves for his fifth profession playoff shutout, his second with the Hurricanes. He joins Cam Ward (4), Kevin Weekes (two) and Petr Mrazek (two) as goaltenders with a number of playoff shutouts in Whalers/Hurricanes Stanley Cup playoffs historical past.

Carolina’s Logan Stankoven scored playoff aim No. 5 within the second interval. He joins Erik Cole (six in 2002) and Warren Foegele (5 in 2019) as the one rookies in Whalers/Hurricanes historical past to attain at the very least 5 targets in a single Stanley Cup playoffs yr.

Sebastian Aho scored an empty-net aim within the third interval, his thirty second profession playoff tally. That extends his personal franchise document for profession targets within the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The Panthers have been shut out for the second time this postseason; each video games have been at house — the opposite occasion was Recreation 6 of the second-round collection in opposition to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Florida went 0-4 on the ability play in Recreation 4, and the workforce is now 0-8 with the person benefit within the final two video games of this collection after going 4-for-5 in Video games 1 and a pair of.

Although he hasn’t scored a aim previously two video games, Sam Bennett has a team-leading 9 this postseason. That’s two shy of the franchise document in a single playoff yr, at the moment held by Matthew Tkachuk (2023) and Carter Verhaeghe (2024).