Recap: Canes Bested by Bruins

The Carolina Hurricanes saw a three-goal lead evaporate in the third period in a 6-4 loss to the Boston Bruins.
Sebastian Aho, Teuvo Teravainen, Justin Williams and Brock McGinn scored for the Hurricanes, but the Bruins roared back with five unanswered goals to complete the comeback.
Here are five takeaways from tonight's game.

One
Stunning is perhaps the one word to describe what occurred in the final 10 minutes of regulation. With the Hurricanes leading 4-1, the Bruins tallied five unanswered goals, including three in a span of 1:17, to hand the Canes a crushing defeat.

"I'm still kind of stunned, really," Williams said. "You let one goal turn into another one turn into another one, and I don't know what else to say."
"I don't want to say we gave them the game because they're a good team and good teams do that. It just took them once chance," Justin Faulk said. "I don't really know how to explain what just happened. It's tough."
"Got to find a way to put an end to that," head coach Bill Peters said. "Some self-inflicted wounds."
Two
Matt Grzelcyk, David Pastrnak and Danton Heinen scored consecutively in 77 seconds to tie the game. One turned into two turned into three, and it was a brand-new hockey game.
Let's talk about Heinen's goal real quick. David Krejci grabbed the puck out of midair, took a couple strides with it and tossed it to himself in the neutral zone to spring an odd-man rush. That should have been whistled down immediately, and he should have been penalized for closing his hand on the puck. Here's a snippet of rule 67.2: "If he catches it and skates with it, either to avoid a check or to gain a territorial advantage over his opponent, a minor penalty shall be assessed" - and that's precisely what Krejci did with the puck.
"I thought their guy might have closed his hand on the puck and got around [Staal] in that regard," Peters said.
But all that being said, surrendering three goals at home in a span of 1:17 is certainly not a recipe for success.
"We gave them an opportunity with one," Faulk said. "They obviously smelled blood and took advantage of it."
And then the Hurricanes took a penalty, and Pastrnak scored his second of the game on the ensuing man advantage to give his team a 5-4 lead. He completed the hat trick in the waning minutes of the game - insult to injury at that juncture.
"It's beyond anger, to be honest," Williams said. "We've got thousands of Boston fans cheering for them when we're at home. That's a product of what's happening. It's beyond upsetting, but we've got to look at ourselves and know that we're responsible for what we've done to this point."
Three
Before the unfortunate chaos that was the final 10 minutes of the game, the Hurricanes played a game certainly worthy of two points. After being outshot 13-7 and outscored 1-0 by the Bruins in the first period, the Hurricanes outshot the Bruins 18-6 and hung three goals on them to take a 3-1 lead to the locker room after two.
A pair of power-play goals scored nearly 10 minutes apart gave the Hurricanes a 2-1 advantage, and it was Aho and Teravainen connecting on both.

The tying goal came just 2:10 into the second period, as Aho scored his 25th goal of the season on an impeccably placed wrist shot that found the far corner. It didn't appear on the scoresheet, but Elias Lindholm provided tremendous net-front presence stationed right in front of Tuukka Rask's eyes.
On the Canes' next power play, a 5-on-3 advantage, it was Aho dishing to Teravainen for the one-timer bomb.

Aho and Teravainen have now combined for 29 points (14g, 15a) in their last 16 games.
Four
The Canes increased their advantage to 3-1 in the final 90 seconds of the period after Lindholm won an offensive zone faceoff. Brock McGinn put a shot on net that leaked through Rask, and Williams won the race to the loose puck to bang it home.

In the first minute of the third period, Lindholm raced down the ice shorthanded and was stopped by Rask, but McGinn was there to clean up the rebound to make it a 4-1 game.

"You look at the first 50 minutes of that game and how we played, answered the bell, battled and got out to a 4-1 lead. It wasn't a fluke," Williams said. "We obviously don't have that mindset to say enough is enough."
Five
So, what's next? The Hurricanes have plenty of time to let this one stew with the next game on the schedule set for Saturday.
"I'm very stunned right now, so reflection is kind of tough," Williams said.
"A few too many times where we've had situations that we've had to say, 'How do we regroup from this?'" Faulk said. "Besides the cliché answer of taking time off, coming back ready to go and putting in the work, I don't really have much for you."
Up Next
Three days will pass before the Hurricanes play their next game, a Saturday night Metropolitan Division match-up with the Philadelphia Flyers at home.