Recap: Raanta, Jarvis Guide Carolina To Game Five Victory

RALEIGH, NC. -The Carolina Hurricanes home ice success continued Tuesday, as they took Game Five from the Boston Bruins, 5-1.

Three Things

1) A Strong Special Teams Evening
After providing Boston with nine power play opportunities Sunday afternoon, objective number one for the home team tonight was to stay out of the penalty box. They successfully did a better job of that, affording the Bruins just three over the course of 60 minutes.
Although Boston's power play is threatening each time they touch the ice, they went 0/3 on those chances, cutting two of them short with penalties of their own.
On the other side of the coin, Carolina's power play found gold twice, an incredibly welcomed sight after going 0/10 combined in Boston during Games Three and Four. Tony DeAngelo doubled Carolina's lead on the man advantage in the first period and then in the third Seth Jarvis put home his second of two while on a power play.

2) The Youngster
The 20-year-old Jarvis was the driving force behind Carolina's offense, recording his first career multi-goal postseason game.
While his first came in fortuitous fashion, getting credit for a Boston clearing attempt that bounced off of Jake DeBrusk's skate and past Jeremy Swayman, his aforementioned power play tally felt like it pushed the Canes over the top, extending their lead to 4-0 in the third.
#24 showed no hesitation in going to the dirty areas of the ice and directly to the front of the net, despite exiting Game Four briefly after being struck by a Brendan Smith slap shot.
3) Wanna Raanta
Perhaps more important than Jarvis' multi-goal game, or the multi-point efforts from Vincent Trocheck, Sebastian Aho, Teuvo Teravainen and DeAngelo, was the play in net from Antti Raanta.
Raanta weathered the storm for Carolina early, denying a few Grade-A chances before Jaccob Slavin broke the ice.
All evening long #32 was spectacular, keeping his team either tied or ahead despite being tested with some dangerous attempts from the Bruins, including the below from Brad Marchand just minutes in.

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They Said It

Rod Brind'Amouroffering thoughts on Raanta making timely stops early, allowing his team to get to their game and then strike first for the fifth consecutive game...
"That's what goaltending does. We have to get those saves. That team is going to get chances and generate opportunities. They certainly did and Raanta was good. Then we had two really solid periods that put us in a comfortable spot."
Tony DeAngelotouching on the team's ability to bounce back from the two games in Boston...
"We know how we have to play. We've probably said the same thing 50 times in a row now. Penalties got us out of our game last game, right? When you take nine penalties, you're probably not going to have success. Tonight, even the penalties we took could've gone either way. When we're on our game five-on-five, we're very confident that we're going to come out on top. We were above the puck so much tonight. That's the way you have to do it. All four lines, all 60 minutes, and Raanta was fantastic too. Whoever wins the special teams battle is going to win the game and that's the way it's going."
Seth Jarvison what made his line so successful this evening...
"When Andrei Svechnikov has the puck down low and no one can take it off of him, that jump starts everything. Sebastian Aho is probably one of the smartest players in the NHL, so he always knows where to go. Then it's just a matter of supporting each other of when there's a loose puck, being the first guy to jump on it and create plays from there."

What's Next?

The Canes are scheduled to practice tomorrow at PNC Arena before flying back to Boston for Game Six. Thursday's contest at TD Garden will be at 7 p.m.

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