Panthers vs. Hurricanes Free Live -Stream (May 20, 200): See NHL playoffs online, time, TV channel for conference playoffs, game 1

The Florida Panthers, led by Center Sam Bennett, collide on Tuesday, May 20, 2025), in the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, with Andrei Svechnikov and Carolina Hurricanes for game 1 of their NHL Playoffs Eastern Conference Final Series.

As you can see: Fans can watch the game over a trial version free of charge Directv stream. The game can also be streamed on sling (half of the first month).

You need to know the following:

What: NHL playoffs, Finale of the Eastern Conference

Who: Florida Panthers against Carolina Hurricanes

When: Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Where: Lenovo Center, Raleigh, North Carolina

Time: 8 p.m. et

TV channel: Tnt, trutv

Live stream: Directv Stream (free trial version), Sling (halfway first month), Hulu + Live TV

Panthers vs. Hurricanes schedule

• Game 1: Panthers @ Hurricanes, Tuesday, May 20, 8:00 p.m. on TNT, Trutv | ELECTRICITY
• Game 2: Panthers @ Hurricanes, Thursday, May 22nd, 8:00 p.m. on TNT, Trutv | ELECTRICITY
• Game 3: Hurricanes @ Panthers, Saturday, May 24th, 8:00 p.m. on TNT, Trutv | ELECTRICITY
• Game 4: Hurricanes @ Panthers, Monday, May 26, 8:00 p.m. on TNT, Trutv | ELECTRICITY
• ** game 5: Panthers @ Hurricanes, Wednesday, May 28, 8:00 p.m. on TNT, Trutv | ELECTRICITY
• ** game 6: Hurricanes @ Panthers, Friday, May 30th, 8:00 p.m. on TNT, Trutv | ELECTRICITY
• ** game 7: Panthers @ Hurricanes, Sunday, June 1, 8:00 p.m. on TNT, Trutv | ELECTRICITY

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Here is a game preview of the Associated Press:

Sunrise, Fla. (AP) – So far, nobody has collected more points in the list of Florida Panthers in these playoffs than Brad Marchand and no skater has registered more than Seth Jones.

Make the latest examples that Bill Zito presses all the correct keys.

General Manager of Panthers and President of Hockey Operations may have made the greatest splashes of trading goods in the NHL and landed Marchand from Boston and Jones from Chicago with the hope of giving the defending champion the best possible chance this year.

It is obvious that the movements were the right ones. So far, Marchand has 12 points in the playoffs associated with Eetu Luostarinen for the team leader. Jones had the first goal in the 6-1 win of Florida in Toronto in game 7 of this semi-finals of the Eastern Conference on Sunday evening. And on Tuesday evening, when the Panthers competed against the Carolina Hurricanes in game 1 of the East Final, Marchand and Jones will be part of the Florida attack.

“As announced, they were on the ice, said Zito.

Few would have thought that it would be possible to deduct such movements. Jones still had five years in his Chicago contract, and even since the Blackhawks keep 26%, this still means that Florida has signed the defender about 35 million US dollars. Marchand had spent his entire career in Boston, a rival of Florida, and it is reasonable to believe that the Bruins did not ask for the Panthers in spring.

From day 1, Jones and Marchand felt like Panther's lifelong. Zito insisted that this would be the case.

“One of the most important things that surprised me was that it was easy to be complacent, especially after they won a trophy and I wasn't sure how it would feel, but if they come in, they can simply feel the drive to win someone else and be better every day,” said Jones. “And that is individual, every type, from our best players, our first -line to our fourth line.

Zito not only got Marchand and Jones because they were big names and big players who would lead to lively headlines. The Panthers had specific needs over the course of the season and the killing of penalties was identified as the top priority.

Zito went to work. The result: A third trip to the Eastern Conference final, four victories from a third trip to the Stanley Cup final.

“You credit Bill Zito and his group,” said Panthers coach Paul Maurice. “We went into the feeling of trade that was the place where we have to get better. Here, too, we lost some important murderers from our team last year. And he delivered.”

But that's what Zito is doing – and has done it since it was hired by the Panthers in 2020. He was at the Panthers' Championship Parade last June, in an enormous downpour with thunder and lightning and knew that his squad would change in less than 24 hours. Some players went. He had some candidates who replace them. Cap Space was a bonus. The shops he wanted to agree to work, or the chances of defending the title would achieve great success.

So far, so good. He signed Nate Schmidt, a defender who has become a large part of the Panther core. He recorded AJ Greer, who scored the best seven goals in Game 7 in Toronto (together with Sam Bennett). He signed Tomáš Nosek, who had a large part of the rally of 3-1 in game 3 against Toronto, which probably saved the series. And he did all of this when he found out how they can give players like Sam Reinhart, Dmitry Kulikov, Anton Lundell last summer and then last autumn one to Carter Verhaeghe.

These are just a few of the steps in the past few months of Zito's work, including things like the landing of Matthew Tkachuk from Calgary, the locking of Maurice from what could best be called half -time and lock of Captain Aleksander Barkov, which could keep him in Florida in Florida, for the committed career.

“I think conventional wisdom is that it will be difficult for every team to return to the Stanley Cup final, let alone win three years in a row,” said Hockey legend Mark Messier, now analyst at ESPN. “I have to give Bill Zito, Paul Maurice, the coach and the Scouting staff.

Zito has once been a candidate of the GM of the year and should be a strong candidate – if not the strongest – this year. But it also quickly insists that it is a collective effort. Yes, he can monitor it, but he enables people in the organization to say their case loudly in certain steps before making the ultimate decisions.

“We rely on the scouts, on the analytics boys to identify players, and then we try to find ways to incorporate parts into the puzzle,” said Zito. “And it is not always the most expensive or cheapest. It fits best. It fits best for this part. And our boys did a fantastic job to identify people who would fit, and also at a price we believe that we can get them.”