Carolina Hurricanes knock out Boston Bruins with 3-2 Game 7 win
The Carolina Hurricanes have finally made it past the Boston Bruins.
While the Bruins are largely known as the Goliath to the Toronto Maple Leafs’ David, Boston has also been an obstacle for the Hurricanes in the playoffs in recent years, beating them in five games in the first round in 2020 and sweeping them in the Eastern Conference Final in 2019.
This year, the Hurricanes got over the hump by beating the Bruins by a score of 3-2 in Game 7 in Carolina.
Teuvo Teravainen scored in the first period to make the score 1-0. A few minutes into the second, Max Domi doubled Carolina’s lead but Jake DeBrusk brought the score back to within one with a goal of his own under two minutes later. Domi would bury another goal shortly after to again restore Carolina’s two-goal lead.
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Boston made the game interesting in the dying seconds as David Pastrnak scored to make the score 3-2 with under a minute left on the clock but Antti Raanta and the Hurricanes slammed the door and secured the win.
The two goals were the first of the playoffs this year for Domi in what was his first-ever Game 7 in the NHL. Raanta was also big for the Canes, as he stopped 26 of 28 shots thrown at him by the Bruins.
The Hurricanes are now off to the second round where they’ll await the winner of Game 7 between the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers. Carolina went 3-1-0 against the Rangers and 2-1-0 against the Penguins in the regular season.
For Boston, they’ll now head into an offseason in which their captain, Patrice Bergeron, is eligible for unrestricted free agency. Bergeron is coming off of an eight-year, $55 million deal signed in 2013 and is 18 points shy of reaching 1,000 for his career.