The Philadelphia Flyers will open the Second Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Hurricanes on Saturday, May 2, at 8:00 p.m. at Lenovo Center in Raleigh, NC. The game will be broadcast on ABC and aired on 97.

BOTTOM LINE: The Carolina Hurricanes host the Philadelphia Flyers to begin the Eastern Conference second round. The teams meet Monday for the fifth time this season. The Hurricanes went 3-1 against the Flyers during the regular season. In their last regular season meeting on April 13, the Flyers won 3-2 in a shootout.

Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Second Round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs between the Carolina Hurricanes and Philadelphia Flyers will be at 8 p.m. on Saturday at Lenovo Center, the league announced early Friday.

But no one expected the Flyers to even make the playoffs as recently as a month and a half ago. They weren’t supposed to beat the Sidney Crosby-led Penguins in the first round, either, considering how inexperienced they were,

The Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers are heading to overtime 0-0 in Wednesday night’s Game 6 of their first-round series

Here's the full NHL schedule, for April 30, including game times, TV channels, scores, odds and how to stream.

While the rest of the schedule remains a mystery, we officially have the start date for the next round after Thursday's action cleared some things up.