Carolina Hurricanes Opening Night Roster + Lineup Combinations

The Carolina Hurricanes submitted their roster to the league office but they sent defenseman Ryan Murphy to the AHL to get under the salary and are expected to bring him back prior to the opener. Defenseman Joni Pitkanen is expected to go on LTIR.

The players on the roster are as follows with possible line combinations and defensive pairings on opening night.

Some Hurricanes are injured and day... to day so the lineup is subject to change because of that. Lines may also be switched up by head coach Kirk Muller.

Format is left wing/center/right wing and Lines 1-4 but it is very subject to change:

Jiri Tlusty/Eric Staal/Alex Semin
Jeff Skinner/Jordan Staal/Nathan Gerbe
Tuomo Ruutu/Elias Lindholm/Patrick Dwyer
Drayson Bowman/Riley Nash/Brett Sutter

13th forward Kevin Westgarth

Defenseman Pairings:

Justin Faulk/Andrej Sekera
Ron Hainsey/Tim Gleason
Ryan Murphy/Jay Harrison

7th defenseman Mike Komisarek, 8th defenseman Brett Bellemore.

Matthew Corrente is still on the roster but Ryan Murphy is expected to be brought back up to the NHL.

Goaltenders:

Cam Ward/Anton Khudobin

Carolina Hurricanes trade Zac Dalpe and Jeremy Welsh to Vancouver Canucks

The Carolina Hurricanes have traded right wing Zac Dalpe and center Jeremy Welsh to the Vancouver Canucks for 22 year old right wing Kellan Tochkin and a 2014 4th round pick in the NHL draft.

Kellan Tochkin

2013 NHL Draft Prospect Battle - Lindholm vs. Monahan vs. Nichushkin

The 2013 NHL Draft was considered one of the best drafts if not the best NHL draft since 2003. Did the Carolina Hurricanes make the right selection with Swedish center Elias Lindholm? Lindholm was evaluated to be a good two way center prospect with a solid international resume but they passed on another solid two way center prospect Sean Monahan and a Russian big and talented forward Valeri Nichushkin. Carolina also passed on very good defensemen but we'll stick with the forwards in this battle.

More goes into how these players do than their statistics but you can follow the statistics of these three players here for fun to start.
5th Overall Pick Center Elias Lindholm Carolina Hurricanes

6th Overall Pick Center Sean Monahan Calgary Flames

10th Overall Pick Left Wing/Right Wing Valeri Nichushkin

2013 Draft Prospects Tracker

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1st Round Pick Center Elias Lindholm - Lindholm signed a three year entry level contract with the Hurricanes and will likely play for Carolina as a rookie but we'll track him as a prospect.

ELIAS LINDHOLM

3rd Round Pick Defenseman Brett Pesce - Pesce will enter his sophomore season at the University of New Hampshire in 2013-2014.

BRETT PESCE

5th Round Pick Left Wing Brent Pedersen - Brent is expected to play for Kitchener in the OHL in 2013-2014.

BRENT PEDERSEN

6th Round Pick Defenseman Tyler Ganly - Ganly will play for Sault Ste. Marie in the OHL in 2013-2014.

TYLER GANLY

2012 Draft Prospects Tracker

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2nd Round Pick Left Wing Phillip Di Giuseppe - Phillip will be in his junior year at the University of Michigan in 2013-2014.

PHILLIP DI GIUSEPPE

2nd Round Pick Left Wing Brock McGinn - McGinn is expected to play for Guelph in the OHL in 2013-2014.

BROCK MCGINN

3rd Round Pick Goaltender Daniel Altshuller - Daniel will likely play for Oshawa in the OHL in 2013-2014.

DANIEL ALTSHULLER

4th Round Pick Forward Erik Karlsson - Karlsson is expected to play for Frolunda in the Swedish Hockey League in 2013-2014.

ERIK KARLSSON

4th Round Pick Defenseman Trevor Carrick - Carrick will play for Mississauga in the OHL in 2013-2014.

TREVOR CARRICK

4th Round Pick Defenseman Jaccob Slavin - Slavin is expected to play his freshman season at Colorado College in 2013-2014.

JACCOB SLAVIN

5th Round Pick Left Wing Brendan Woods - Woods is playing for Charlotte in the AHL in 2013-2014.

BRENDAN WOODS

6th Round Pick Goaltender Collin Olson - Olson enters his sophomore season at Ohio State University in 2013-2014.

COLLIN OLSON

7th Round Pick Left Wing Brendan Collier - Collier will play his freshman year at Boston University in 2013-2014.

BRENDAN COLLIER

2011 Draft Prospects Tracker

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1st Round Pick Defenseman Ryan Murphy - Murphy could make the Hurricanes opening day roster.
RYAN MURPHY

2nd Round Pick Center Victor Rask - Rask is likely playing for Charlotte in the AHL in 2013-2014.

VICTOR RASK

3rd Round Pick Defenseman Keegan Lowe - Lowe is expected to play on Charlotte in 2013-2014.

KEEGAN LOWE

4th Round Pick Center Gregory Hofmann - Hofmann was not signed by the deadline on June 1, 2013 so he is no longer property of the Hurricanes.
6th Round Pick Goaltender Matt Mahalak - Mahalak was not signed by the deadline on June 1, 2013 so he is no longer property of the Hurricanes.
7th Round Pick Center Brody Sutter - Sutter is expected to play for Charlotte in the AHL in 2013-2014.

BRODY SUTTER

2010 Draft Prospects Tracker

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1st Round Pick Center Jeff Skinner - Skinner is on Carolina so he is no longer considered a prospect.
2nd Round Pick Defenseman Justin Faulk - Justin is on Carolina so he is no longer considered a prospect.
2nd Round Pick Defenseman Mark Alt - Alt was traded Philadelphia on January 13, 2013 along with Brian Boucher for Luke Pither.
3rd Round Pick Defenseman Danny Biega - Biega is expected to play for Charlotte in the AHL in 2013-2014.

DANNY BIEGA

3rd Round Pick Defenseman Austin Levi - Levi will play for Charlotte in 2013-2014.

AUSTIN LEVI

4th Round Pick Left Wing Justin Shugg - Shugg will likely play for Charlotte in 2013-2014.

JUSTIN SHUGG

6th Round Pick Defenseman Tyler Stahl - Stahl was not tendered a qualifying offer by June 1, 2012 so he is no longer property of the Hurricanes.
7th Round Pick Goaltender Frederik Andersen - Andersen was not signed by the deadline in 2012 and he re entered the draft in 2012. Anaheim selected him in the 3rd round of the 2012 draft.