Tonight the Boston Bruins host the Carolina Hurricanes at TD Garden. With both Patrice Bergeron (Injury) and Brad Marchand (Suspension) unavailable the Bruins have been forced to shuffle their lineup as the 1st place Hurricanes come to town.
Boston Bruins (26-15-3) - 4th in the Atlantic Taylor Hall–Erik Haula–David Pastrnak Jake DeBrusk–Charlie Coyle–Craig Smith Trent Frederic–Jack Studnicka–Nick Foligno Anton Blidh–Tomas Nosek–Curtis Lazar
Matt Grzelcyk–Charlie McAvoy Mike Reilly–Brandon Carlo Derek Forbort–Connor Clifton
Expected Starter Linus Ullmark
The Hurricanes are coming off a tough loss the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday night and are likely to be hungry when puck drops Thursday night.
Carolina Hurricanes (31-10-3) - 1st in the Metropolitan Andrei Svechnikov–Sebastian Aho–Martin Necas Jordan Martinook–Vincent Trocheck–Seth Jarvis Nino Niederreiter–Jordan Staal–Jesper Fast Steven Lorentz–Derek Stepan–Josh Leivo