The Carolina Hurricanes kicked off their four-game road trip against the Boston Bruins on Monday night (November 17). They entered the game looking to keep their two-game losing streak alive after beating the Vancouver Canucks in overtime before losing to the Edmonton Oilers in overtime in the second half of a back-to-back. The Bruins looked to win two games in a row after beating the Montreal Canadiens. They have won eight of their last nine, one of them against the Hurricanes on November 1 after beating them 2-1 in Boston. After the last horn sounded, the Hurricanes defeated the Bruins 3-1.
Summary of the game
The first period yielded no goals, but both teams had their chances. The shots were even 9-9 between the Bruins and the Hurricanes as they fought to find the first goal of the game. There was also a power play for both teams, but both penalty kill units were stellar, showing why they are both ranked in the top 15 in the league. Jeremy Swayman and Pyotr Kochetkov traded big save after big save. The final save came near the end of the period when Kochetkov made a double pad stack save to deny Morgan Geekie a late goal for the Bruins.
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There were a pair of goals in the second period, both coming from the Hurricanes. It is the depth of Rod Brind’Amour’s team that took them to a 2-0 lead in the middle frame. Just under eight and a half minutes into the period, it was captain Jordan Staal who got the Hurricanes on the board first. After a shot from Joel Nystrom, Staal fought off a Bruins player in front of Swayman and somehow, with one hand on the stick, knocked the puck into the net. It was a big man’s goal to make it 1-0.
More than five minutes later, it was Mark Jankowski who doubled the Hurricanes’ lead. A Taylor Hall shot went off Jankowski, who patiently retrieved the puck he was blocking and beat a sprawling Swayman high to make it a 2-0 game. The Hurricanes outscored the Bruins 12-7 in the period, which they had a lot of control over, and took a two-goal lead into the second intermission.
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Two goals were scored in the third period, one from each side. The first came at 5:27 when Taylor Hall made a self-pass off the boards to get around Nikita Zadorov and have a chance to crash the net. After stretching Swayman and stretching past him, he was able to score and extend the lead to 3-0 for the Hurricanes. With the Hurricanes expecting a possible shutout, Riley Tufte was able to defeat Kochetkov in a crazy battle to make it a 3-1 game.
The Hurricanes moved to 13-5-1 and kept their three-game winning streak alive. Kochetkov earned his fourth straight win to start the season and is now 4-0-0. Their next game is on Wednesday, November 19 against the Minnesota Wild in St. Paul. As for the Bruins, their next game is on November 19 as they travel to Southern California to take on the Anaheim Ducks. They are now 12-9-0 on the season after the loss to the Hurricanes.
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