Carolina Hurricanes (47-30-5) vs Florida Panthers (47-31-4)
Game Info: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 8:00 pm (Lenovo Center)
The Line: Betting Odds: Carolina Hurricanes +105 / Florida Panthers -125 — Over/Under: 5.5
The Florida Panthers and the Carolina Hurricanes meet Wednesday in NHL action from the Lenovo Center. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best bets for this game. Here’s a Florida Panthers vs. Carolina Hurricanes prediction.
Series Recap
The Carolina Hurricanes managed to extend their season by at least one more game after nabbing a 3-0 win over the Panthers in game four to make it a 3-1 series. The game remained scoreless through the first 20 minutes and for the first half of the second period before Logan Stankoven got the Hurricanes on the board just after the midway point of the second. The one goal would hold up until Sebastian Aho and Jordan Staal scored empty net goals 26 seconds apart to give the Hurricanes insurance goals that they’d ride to the finish line to snap their 15-game conference finals losing streak.
Panthers Have Second Chance At Clinching Series
Sam Reinhart has a team-high 81 points including 39 goals and 42 assists while Sam Bennett has 51 points with 25 goals and 26 assists and Anton Lundell has 45 points of his own with 17 goals and 28 assists. Aleksander Barkov also has 71 points with 51 assists of his own while Carter Verhaeghe has 53 points with 20 goals and 33 assists and Matthew Tkachuk has 57 points with 22 goals and 35 assists. Sergei Bobrovsky is 33-19-2 with a 2.44 GAA and a .906 save percentage in goal for Florida this season. Vitek Vanecek is also 2-4-1 with a 3.00 GAA and an .890 save percentage in goal for the Panthers this year.
Why the Florida Panthers will win
- The Hurricanes have lost nine of their last 10 games against Atlantic Division opponents.
- The Panthers have won each of their last four road games.
- The Hurricanes have failed to cover the puck line in nine of their last 10 games against Atlantic Division opponents.
- The Panthers have covered the puck line in each of their last four road games against Eastern Conference opponents.
Florida Panthers Player Prop Facts
- Sam Bennett has scored at least one goal in eight of the Panthers’ last 10 road playoff games against Eastern Conference opponents.
- Sam Reinhart has recorded at least one point in each of his last nine appearances with the Panthers as favorites against Metropolitan Division opponents.
- Sam Reinhart has scored the first goal in four of his last five appearances with the Panthers as favorites against Metropolitan Division opponents.
- Eetu Luostarinen has recorded at least one assist in five of the Panthers’ last six playoff games as road favorites.
- Aleksander Barkov ranks T1st in the league for shootout goals (4) this season.
Hurricanes Trying To Force Game 6
Sebastian Aho leads Carolina with 74 points with 29 goals and 45 assists while Andrei Svechnikov has 48 points with 20 goals and 28 assists. Jack Roslovic has 39 points with 22 goals while Shayne Gostisbehere’s added 45 points with 7 goals and 38 assists. Seth Jarvis has also chipped in 67 points with a team-high 32 goals as well this season. Pyotr Kochetkov has gone 27-16-3 with a 2.60 GAA and an .898 save percentage in goal for Carolina so far this year while Frederik Andersen is 13-8-1 with a 2.50 GAA and an .899 save percentage on the year. Spencer Martin has also gone 3-4-1 with a 3.89 GAA and an .846 save percentage and Dustin Tokarski’s 4-2 with a 2.18 GAA and a .902 save percentage this season.
Why the Carolina Hurricanes will win
- The underdogs have won six of the last seven games between the Panthers and Hurricanes.
- The Panthers have lost four of their last six games as road favorites against Metropolitan Division opponents.
- The underdogs have covered the puck line in 13 of the last 15 games between the Panthers and Hurricanes.
- The Panthers have failed to cover the puck line in each of their last four games as road favorites against Metropolitan Division opponents.
Carolina Hurricanes Player Prop Facts
- Andrei Svechnikov has scored a goal in four of his last five appearances in Game 5s of a playoff series.
- Seth Jarvis has recorded at least one assist in four of the Hurricanes’ last five home games against Atlantic Division opponents.
- Seth Jarvis has recorded at least one point in 14 of the Hurricanes’ last 15 night games at Lenovo Center.
- Jackson Blake ranks 2nd amongst rookies for Plus/Minus (+10) this season.
Total Goals Facts
- Each of the Panthers’ last six games following a loss have gone OVER the total goals line.
- Seven of the last eight night games between the Panthers and Hurricanes at Lenovo Center have gone UNDER the total goals line.
Florida Panthers vs. Carolina Hurricanes Prediction
I’m on the Panthers here. I know the Hurricanes have been one of the best home teams in the NHL this season, but that didn’t stop the Panthers from demolishing Carolina in their own barn twice earlier in this series, and the Panthers don’t want to give the Hurricanes any sort of sustained momentum. Florida probably remembers what they had against Edmonton in the cup final last year, and how dicey that got, but I think that Florida exorcises those demons and gets the win to go back to the cup final here. Give me the Panthers.