The Hurricanes will not hold a morning skate coming off a game and travel the night prior. We'll chat with head coach Bill Peters in the early evening to get the latest.

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CANES LINES: WARM-UPS

6:35 p.m.

Here's how the Canes will line up tonight against Boston.

Aho-Staal-Teravainen

McGinn-Lindholm-Williams

Skinner-Rask-Di Giuseppe

Nordstrom-Ryan-Stempniak

Slavin-Pesce

Fleury-Faulk

Hanifin-van Riemsdyk

Ward

Darling

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Puck drop at PNC Arena happens in 30 minutes!

WARD STARTS, FLEURY DRAWS IN

5:20 p.m.

A couple of lineup changes for the Hurricanes tonight on the second half of a back-to-back: Cam Ward will get the start in net, and Haydn Fleury will draw in to the lineup in place of Klas Dahlbeck and will skate on the left side with Justin Faulk.

Here's more from the head coach.

On Valentin Zykov: "We had back-to-back practice days, and we had a guy a little banged up. It could have gone either way. It could have gotten better or it could have gotten worse. It obviously got better, but we had an insurance policy in Zykov come in. Got through the game and felt better as it went. ... Hopefully it continues to progress in the right direction, and we didn't need a forward here tonight. He felt much better and felt good on the plane ride home. Green light."

On the decision-making process without a GM: "It's a group effort. There are some assistant GMs, and Donny Waddell is involved. There's good communication there. [Charlotte] is right down the road, and I'm sure at some point we'll see some of those guys."

On if front office changes affect the locker room: "We don't have time to worry here. We've got to get our stuff, our game in order. We're falling off the pace a little bit. It's desperation time. We've got to focus on what we have to do."

BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF NORTH CAROLINA TOOLS TO VICTORY

3:50 p.m.

TV's Mike Maniscalco presents tonight's Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina three Tools to Victory.

Video: Tools to Victory: BOS vs CAR

CANES, BRUINS CLOSE OUT SEASON SERIES

2:30 a.m.

The Carolina Hurricanes and Boston Bruins will close out their three-game season series in Raleigh on Tuesday.

The Bruins have taken the first two games of the series, both played in Boston, but the Hurricanes did snatch a point in the last meeting. Boston ran away in a 7-1 rout in the first week of January before then eking out a 4-3 overtime win on Feb. 27.

In the most recent meeting just two weeks ago, the Hurricanes scored three goals in the first period and took a 3-2 lead to the locker room. The Bruins tied it in the first half of the second period, and Charlie McAvoy scored the game-winner just 68 seconds into overtime.

"It was a good battle. Lots of good things. But it doesn't matter," Sebastian Aho, who scored one of the three goals in the first period, said after that game. "We need wins. It's always tough when you lose a tight game."

Much of the same could be said about the Hurricanes 6-3 loss to the New York Rangers on Monday night. It was a game in which the Hurricanes never had a lead, but they thrice were able to answer Rangers' goals with goals of their own to even the score. In the third period, when Victor Rask tied the game at three with a power-play tally, it looked as if the Canes were going to seize the momentum and find a fourth goal. The Rangers beat them to that, though, and then added two empty-netters in the final minutes of the game to seal their victory and hand the Hurricanes their 15th straight defeat at Madison Square Garden (0-12-3).

"I thought we played pretty well. We got a big one on the power play in the third," said Lee Stempniak, who scored his second goal of the season in the second period. "We had a lot of chances. It's a tough game to lose. They're all must-wins at this point given where we are in the standings. To come back, tie it up and then lose the lead again, it's a tough one to swallow."

"It seemed like we were chasing the game a lot. Every time we got it tied up, they would score in three, four or five minutes and we were chasing again," head coach Bill Peters said. "I thought it was coming. Tied it up on the power play, 3-3, and I thought we were in good shape there."

Now with just 13 games remaining in the regular season, the Hurricanes are going to need to establish an extended winning streak down the stretch if they want to keep their fading playoff hopes alive.

"It's surprising. It's frustrating to a certain degree, too," Peters said about the team's position in the standings. "Obviously there are degrees of disappointment there, too."

CANESPR NOTES: The Hurricanes are 11-7-1 against Atlantic Division opponents this season. … The Hurricanes are 5-1-3 in their last nine games against the Bruins. … The Canes have scored a power-play goal in three straight games and are 3-for-8 (37.5 percent) in that stretch.

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