The Carolina Hurricanes will look for a jump injury if you continue your playoff preparation and visit the Boston Bruins for the first and only time this season on Saturday evening.
It is the second night of a back-to-back for the Hurricanes.
Carolina (46-25-4, 96 points) took a defeat against the Detroit against the Detroit Red Wings at the start of a four-game trip. The defeat was only the third in the last 15 games and won a winning series with three games.
Although the Hurricanes trip won her seventh Stanley Cup playoffs in a row this season, it was not completely smooth after a 16: 5: 1 start before she went 11: 3: 0 in March.
“There were much more or maybe a few additional heights and depths all year round, which has a little more difficulties in some situations,” said Carolina captain Jordan Staal. “There was not too much cruise control.”
Now, however, the Canes have the opportunity to sweep three games from Boston after winning the first two with a combined 11: 4 count, including a dominant 8: 2 Halloween victory.
The Hurricanes must do without Andrei Svechnikov (unnecessary injury), who joined Jordan Staal (lower body) and Dmitry Orlov (not announced) on the shelf in Detroit. SVechnikov will miss the entire trip that will continue next week in Buffalo and Washington.
“I didn’t think it would be serious and I didn’t,” said Hurricanes trainer Rod Brind’amour about Svechnikov’s injury. “I think it’s similar to (Staal). We really only have precaution, but he pulled out of the game. I didn’t feel good the other day.”
Jackson Blake, Eric Robinson and Brent Burns scored goals and Jaccob Slavin had two templates for Carolina in the game on Friday. Seth Jarvis is in a six-game top after taking an assist.
With the injuries, the 22-year center of Justin Robidas gave his NHL debut and achieved Robinson’s second destination.
“He is a great child and he somehow deserves the call,” said Brind’amour. “This is how we look at it. Had a good year (for Ahl Chicago), everything you asked him to do down there, and I think we reward him with this call.”
The Bruins (30-37-9, 69 points) are in a rare position after they have fallen onto the ground of the East Conference for the first time since 2010 against the Montreal Canadiens after a 4-1 setback against the Montreal Canadiens.
The goalkeeper Jeremy Swayman and the rest of the team of interim coach Joe Sacco were ready to play, but it dropped off in the second half when Montreal scored two goals and had a 17-2 shot.
Finding more victories on the track will be a more comprehensive effort for Boston, which has not been won against the Florida Panthers since March 11.
“I think we have moments when we play well, but not long enough in the course of a game,” said Sacco. “We have to be able to maintain more of a 60-minute effort, and I think that will do it. And we just have to understand that we have to pull out together.”
As defender Nikita Zadorov sees it, the effort must also be more difficult.
“The other teams are only hungry than ours,” said Zadorov. “You want to win more, that’s the end result. We are simply not difficult at the puck. We are easy to play.”
Morgan Geekie was a bright spot for Boston this season and took second place with 27 goals. An assist for Elias Lindholm’s lonely goal in Montreal brought Geekie’s point series to five games.
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