Anaheim Ducks at Carolina Hurricanes: game preview
AnaheimDucks2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 43-33-6 · 92 pts · 18that
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndTwenty-one points apart last season
Anaheim finished last season 18th in the league on 92 points. Carolina finished 2nd on 113.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 46
Across 45 completed games, Anaheim lead the head-to-head 25-18-2.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 16 Oct 2025, Anaheim were 23rd in the league and Carolina 2nd. By 8 Jan 2026 it was 25th and 4th.
Carolina out-attempted Anaheim 135 to 90
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Anaheim Ducks
Carolina Hurricanes
Anaheim and Carolina are level on chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 2 games for Anaheim, 4 for Carolina. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Anaheim, 10 for Carolina.
2025-26: 87 games for Anaheim, 86 for Carolina.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Anaheim
Small sampleCarolina
Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Anaheim crease
ANA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Jan
No appearances against Carolina in the last meetings.
Carolina crease
CAR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Jan
No appearances against Anaheim in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.6 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Anaheim3.502.503.333.51
Carolina2.753.003.612.93Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
5 on the injury lists
Anaheim · injuries
Carolina · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Signed D Tristan Luneau to a six-year contract extension.
Reassigned C Roger McQueen and C Cruz Lucius to San Diego (AHL). Recalled D Noah Warren, D Ian Mitchell and D Tristan Luneau from San Diego. Placed D Drew Helleson on injured reserve. Moved RW Troy Terry from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed G Laurent Brossoit and D Travis Mitchell on waivers.
Placed G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Anaheim · 2026 draft
See all: Anaheim · 2026 draft →Carolina · 2026 draft
See all: Carolina · 2026 draft →Saturday 23 January · the full slate
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