{"id":98492,"date":"2021-01-20T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=98492"},"modified":"2021-01-20T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T18:22:23","slug":"carolina-hurricanes-florida-panthers-series-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/01\/20\/carolina-hurricanes-florida-panthers-series-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Hurricanes-Florida Panthers Series Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After having their game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/predators\/\" target=\"_self\">Nashville Predators <\/a>on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/01\/19\/hurricanes-predators-game-postponed\/\" target=\"_self\">Tuesday postponed due to COVID-19 exposure<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_self\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> will not play their next series. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/carolina-nashville-game-postponed\/c-320461732\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NHL.com<\/a>, the Hurricanes series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/panthers\/\" target=\"_self\">Florida Panthers<\/a> scheduled for Thursday and Saturday is going to be postponed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Due to a COVID-19 outbreak among the Carolina Hurricanes, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlaPanthers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FlaPanthers<\/a> now have the weekend off as they get another two-game series postponed. Of the seven NHL postponements, the Panthers have been part of four. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y6oWRdTBUo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/y6oWRdTBUo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Richards (@GeorgeRichards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgeRichards\/status\/1351931800881418242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Carolina Hurricanes-Florida Panthers Series Postponed<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing teams cancelling practices and postponing games has been a constant for the last two weeks. However, due to the COVID-19 situation, this will likely be a routine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Carolina Hurricanes were the first team to postpone a game since the season started. It wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if they weren&#8217;t the only ones. Before the season even started, the NHL announced all <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/stars\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars<\/a> games were postponed until January 22nd, due to multiple positive cases among Stars players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After playing the first game of the series on January 18th, their second game of the series did not take place. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hurricanes beat Nashville 4-2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/svechan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrei Svechnikov<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/forsbfi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Filip Forsberg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/trochvi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vincent Trocheck<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=ahose01,ahose02&amp;search=Sebastian+Aho&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sebastian Aho<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/arvidvi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viktor Arvidsson<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/niedeni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nino Niederreiter<\/a> were the goal scorers. Svechnikov and Forsberg had a three-point night each.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After postponing the game, the Hurricanes added four players to the NHL COVID Protocol list. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/foegewa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Warren Foegele<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/martijo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Martinook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/slavija01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaccob Slavin<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/teravte01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teuvo Teravainen<\/a> have joined captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/staaljo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Staal<\/a> on the list. Though initially not on the list, Staal <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was added on Friday after testing positive. The captain stays in Detroit, where Carolina played their first series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/redwings\/\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>. They defeated the home team in the first game 3-0 and lost the second 4-2.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Won&#8217;t Be The Last<\/h3>\n<p>As of now, everything is a go for the Nashville Predators. However, that is subject to change.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are set to play against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/stars\/\" target=\"_self\">Dallas Stars<\/a> for their opening game of the season on January 22nd.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Originally the game Thursday against the Panthers was to be the Hurricanes home opener. The Panthers were reportedly flying to Raleigh on Wednesday for the game. With the series being postponed, the Panthers will be off once again.\u00a0They were supposed to be the Stars first opponent this season.<\/p>\n<p>Florida had their first series against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/blackhawks\/\" target=\"_self\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> on Sunday and Tuesday and won both games.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if the NHL makes up these games in an already tight schedule. The NHL may have to put a week at the end of the season to make up these games. Especially if they are meaningful for the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"-Z6-n80rT15PA5bXOYJj8g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1144447497\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-Z6-n80rT15PA5bXOYJj8g',sig:'ROdQ-W3H21noYBqdbnlzs8GNK5m1n0b5wPGwEQFgPJE=',w:'594px',h:'424px',items:'1144447497',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having their game against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday postponed due to COVID-19 exposure, the Carolina Hurricanes will not play their next series. According to NHL.com, the Hurricanes series against the Florida Panthers scheduled for Thursday and Saturday is going to be postponed.\u00a0 Due to a COVID-19 outbreak among the Carolina Hurricanes, the #FlaPanthers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3683,"featured_media":98496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,4547,34,4548],"tags":[136,4675,106,5738,955],"class_list":["post-98492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hurricanes","category-panthers","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-covid-19","tag-florida-panthers","tag-hockey-news","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"William Grigsby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}