Hurricanes at Golden Knights preview

HURRICANES (6-5-2) at GOLDEN KNIGHTS (5-7-1)
10 p.m. ET; ATTSN-RM, FS-CR, NHL.TV

The Hurricanes, playing the second game of a back-to-back and second of a four-game road trip, lost 4-3 in overtime at the Arizona Coyotes on Friday.
After winning three consecutive games, the Golden Knights have lost two in a row and four of their past five (1-3-1). Vegas will begin a four-game road trip at Toronto Tuesday.

Players to watch

Hurricanes forward Sebastian Aho (four goals, 13 assists) was held without a point Friday, ending his Hurricanes/Hartford Whalers record 12-game point streak to begin the season.
Golden Knights forward Alex Tuch has five points (three goals, two assists) in five games since making his season debut Oct. 24.

They said it

"You always have to look at positives. We played a good hockey game for 50 minutes. The guys played hard. We had more than enough opportunities to put that game away [Friday] even when we were down." -- Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour
"It's a lot of little things that aren't going right. We're playing decent enough hockey to win games, but it's not good enough. If there's something missing, we've got to find it and correct it." -- Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant

Hurricanes projected lineup

Micheal Ferland -- Sebastian Aho -- Andrei Svechnikov
Brock McGinn -- Jordan Staal -- Justin Williams
Jordan Martinook -- Lucas Wallmark -- Teuvo Teravainen
Warren Foegele -- Nicolas Roy -- Valentin Zykov
Jaccob Slavin -- Dougie Hamilton
Calvin de Haan -- Justin Faulk
Trevor van Riemsdyk -- Brett Pesce
Scott Darling
Petr Mrazek
Scratched:Haydn Fleury, Curtis McElhinney
Injured: Victor Rask (hand)

Golden Knights projected lineup

Jonathan Marchessault -- William Karlsson -- Reilly Smith
Tomas Hyka -- Erik Haula -- Alex Tuch
Ryan Carpenter -- Cody Eakin -- Tomas Nosek
William Carrier -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Ryan Reaves
Shea Theodore -- Deryk Engelland
Brayden McNabb -- Colin Miller
Nick Holden -- Brad Hunt
Marc-Andre Fleury
Malcolm Subban
Scratched:Jon Merrill, Jake Bischoff, Oscar Lindberg
Injured: Paul Stastny (lower body), Max Pacioretty (upper body)
Suspended:Nate Schmidt

Status report

Darling is expected to make his second start of the season after Mrazek started Friday. … Pacioretty was a non-contact participant in practice the past two days and is day to day.

Stat pack

Carolina leads the NHL with 42.4 shots per game. … Svechnikov ended his eight-game scoreless streak with a goal on Friday. … Marchessault is on a three-game point streak (one goal, two assists). … The Golden Knights are allowing 2.92 goals per game after allowing 2.74 per game last season. They have allowed at least three goals in four straight games. … A loss in regulation would be Vegas' third at home this season, a mark not reached until Jan. 25 last season.