Hurricanes vs Bruins live updates: Carolina falls to Boston, 4-2, in Game 3
.JPG "Boston Bruins’ Brad Marchand (63) celebrates his goal with David Pastrnak during the second period of Game 3 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup first-round playoff series against the Carolina Hurricanes, Friday, May 6, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)")
The Carolina Hurricanes take a 2-0 lead to Boston and Game 3 of their first-round NHL playoff series against the Boston Bruins on Friday after taking both of the opening games in Raleigh.
Game 4 is Sunday afternoon in Boston. Game 5, if necessary, has been set for 7 p.m. at PNC Arena in Raleigh, the NHL announced Thursday.
The News & Observer’s Chip Alexander and Luke DeCock are at TD Garden and Justin Pelletier is following along back in Raleigh. They will have live observations from the scene.
How to watch
Friday’s game is available in North Carolina on Bally Sports South (Mike Maniscalco, Shane Willis, Abby Labar) and nationally on TNT (John Forslund, Keith Jones, Shannon Hogan, Colby Armstrong).
Third period
Goalie pulled for extra skater: With less than three minutes to play, the Canes pull Kochetkov for an extra skater, trailing by two.
Hurricanes turn up the pressure: The Canes have been aggressors here late, with a ton of in-zone pressure on the Bruins and Swayman, but the Boston defense has so far held firm.
Hurricanes get one back: The Canes have been a third-period team all season. Do they have another comeback in them? Jaccob Slavin fired a long shot from way downtown. Staal tried to tip it, missed, and Swayman just plain missed it with his glove.
Canes power play futile. Again: As good as the Canes’ PK and PP have been this season, both of them having an off night Friday. The Canes earned a fifth power play shortly after the B’s power-play goal, but were unable to generate even a sniff of a goal.
Power play goal for Bruins ... again: The Canes start the third period with some energy, but the Bruins go back to the power play after a call on Vincent Trocheck, and the Bruins’ vaunted power play is returning to form. This time, Taylor Hall scores on a tap-in from the right post.
Second period
Unfamiliar territory: Nothing doing in the final two minutes of the second period for the Canes, and for the first time these playoffs, the Canes will head to an intermission trailing. Two goals from the Bruins, including one on the power play has the Bruins in front 3-1 after two.
Smith back on the bench, but PP fruitless: The Canes can’t convert on a fourth power play in this game, with Teuvo Terravainen coming close: He hit the post on the left side of the cage after a juicy rebound from Swayman. Otherwise, the young Bruins keeper is playing a solid game against the Canes here.
Martinook will not return to the game: Jordan Martinook, after his injury earlier in the second period, will not return to the game, per the Canes’ PR staff.
Big hit to Smith sends him to the room: Connor Clifton lays a shoulder into Brendan Smith as Smith pinched in from the point. It looks like Clifton’s shoulder clipped Smith in the head and sent him rattling to the boards. Smith was woozy. After a lengthy official review, Clifton is assessed a two-minute minor for roughing. Smith returns to the bench before the review is over.
Timeout on the ice for injury to an official: After the Bruins scored on the power play, fans were celebrating and banging on the glass, and one of the panes of glass jarred loose and hit an off-ice official in the box square. Medical staffs from both teams rushed across the ice to tend to the official, who was given a neck brace, loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled off the ice. He had his eyes open and they were moving around as he was wheeled away.
Playing with fire, the Canes got burned: David Pastrnak capitalized on the 5-on-4 after the Bruins failed to score on the 5-on-3. Brett Pesce was clearly stung early in the man advantage for the Bruins but fought through it. On the goal shot, Pastrnam shot the puck through Pesce’s screen.
Bruins with a two-man advantage: Bruins get 5-on-3 after a penalty during the power play on Cole’s penalty. Trockeck was called for tripping, and the Bruins got 1:31 of 5-on-3 time.
Canes back to the PK, playing with fire: Putting the Bruins’ top PP unit on the ice for the third time, the Canes called for a cross-check after Ian Cole sends Wagner flying in front of the net. A shot of the Bruins bench after the incident, Lazar and Wagner were laughing at what had happened: They went onto the power play and goaded the Canes into a bad penalty.
Martinook injured in collision with Hall: Jordan Martinook went to hit Taylor Hall, the Bruins winger sidestepped him and they grappled down the ice. Martinook’s helmet popped off after contact with Hall’s hand, and he fell off-balanced to the ice, and has he did hit right leg folded underneath him. Helmetless, he limped back to the bench, looking like he’d lost a skate blade, but he was not missing one. He hobbled to the bench.
Matching minors to Marchand, DeAngelo: The Bruins lose Marchand and the Canes lose DeAngelo to coincidental minors as the pair battled their way through the neutral zone with the Canes on the power play.
Back to the PP for the Canes: For the third time tonight, the Hurricanes will go to the power play after Connor Clifton was called for cross-checking Jordan Martinook in the back. East call there, and a big momentum possibility here for the Canes, but the man-advantage goes away with no damage.
For the first time, Bruins lead: Brad Marchand comes onto the ice after a change and almost immediately converts from the low slot. The [puck was there in his skates, he danced to his left and Kochetkov was already pushed off and sliding from the initial right to left pass. Marchand was able to sneak left a bit more and toss the puck high into the cage. That was Brad Marchand’s first 5v5 goal since April 2nd.
Bruins easily kill Canes’ PP: To say the Hurricanes’ power play has been underwhelming is a bit of an understatement. They gave up a goal on the first try, and never sniffed a chance on the second. We’re back to 5-on-5 hockey in this one.
They’re not booing, they’re saying Bucyk: Johnny “Chief” Bucyk is interviewed on the scoreboard during the first intermission, wearing the same No. 9 jersey now honored in the TD Garden rafters. The Bruins legend looks good for 86. For comparison purposes, that would be like Ron Francis appearing at a Hurricanes playoff game in 2049.
First period
A chance at redemption: Tony DeAngelo draws another penalty with 34.8 seconds to go in the first, getting the stick slashed out of his left hand by Brad Marchand. It’s a better power play but to no avail. Hurricanes go into the second period tied 1-1 with 1:26 of power-play time still on the clock. Hurricanes had an 11-8 shot edge in the first period.
Bruins even it up short-handed: A pretty poor power play turns disastrous when Charlie Coyle is on the finishing end of a Jake DeBrusk pass on a two-on-one break. The Bruins even it up 1-1 with the short-handed goal. Jesperi Kotkaniemi’s ill-advised drop pass was stolen by DeBrusk, who goes off to the races. Nino Niederreiter was slow to react on the other side of the ice, couldn’t catch up to Coyle.
Hurricanes draw a power play: Tony DeAngelo dances across the blue line after a few good keep-ins by Jordan Martinook, fresh out of the box, and draws a tripping call against Erik Haula. The Hurricanes maintain possession for a good minute to set up a Martin Necas six-on-five rush but the Bruins break it up. The Canes’ power play will get a chance to add to the visitors’ lead.
Second penalty also to the Canes: Jordan Martinook has been called for the second time tonight for a minor penalty. This time, for a hook against Lazar as the big Bruins forward charged into the zone. Another 2-minute PP for the Bruins, another kill for the Canes’ PK.
Good goalie start: Kochetkov hasn’t seen a ton of action but he’s been sharp and in good position, stopping first a Patrice Bergeron deflection in the slot and then Connor Clifton when Clifton stepped into a drop pass at the right circle.
Canes draw first blood: Vincent Trockeck got a redirected puck off of a shot from Brendan Smith at the point with his skate to his stick, and swept it past Swayman while falling to the ice, engaged with Brandon Carlo. Third game in a row the Hurricanes are on the board first.
First power play to... Boston: The Bruins were awarded the first power play of the game after Jordan Martinook caught Taylor Hall in the chin on a zone-entry play. The Canes’ best PK in the league went to work and generated two shots on goal while killing the penalty. The Bruins did not get a shot on net.
Too many men? The Bruins appeared to catch a break early in the first period when a change near the Bruins bench appeared to put too many Bruins on the ice at one time. TV replays showed as many as seven at one time, with six on the ice when the puck was played by a Bruins skater who had just come on the ice. Analysts on TV all agreed it should have been a penalty on Boston. First break falls for the B’s.
Same group, as expected: No lineup changes for the Hurricanes other than the goalie swap. Antti Raanta is indeed dressed as the backup goalie.
Kochetkov starts, Raanta will dress
Pyotr Kochetkov will get the start for the Hurricanes after his 30-save relief appearance on Wednesday in Game 2, with Antti Raanta cleared to dress as the backup after leaving that game injured after colliding with Boston’s David Pastrnak.
With rookie Jeremy Swayman taking over for Linus Ullmark in the Bruins’ net Friday night, it is believed to be the first time four goalies have made their first postseason start in the same playoff series. It’s happened before with three, most recently in 2006 with Cam Ward, Martin Gerber and Cristobal Huet when the Hurricanes faced the Montreal Canadiens in the first round.
Pregame reading
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This story was originally published May 6, 2022 at 5:51 PM.
