RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The injuries piled up quickly during the Carolina Hurricanes’ six-game road trip out West, enough so that a reporter asked coach Rod Brind’Amour whether he felt like he left with one team and came back with a different one.

“Good way to put it, yeah,” Brind’Amour said Monday. “It did actually. I don’t know how many guys went out there, but it just felt like every day there was something bad happening.”

The Hurricanes are preparing to play Vegas on Tuesday night in their first home game since Oct. 11. The question is exactly how their lineup will look, both against the Golden Knights and in the games that follow due to a line of injuries.

The list included losing defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere to lower-body injury in the win at Los Angeles on Oct. 18. Offseason blue-

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