Bruins top Hurricanes in Game 3, trail Eastern First Round series

BOSTON --Jeremy Swayman made 25 saves for the Boston Bruins to win his first Stanley Cup Playoff start, 4-2 against the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference First Round at TD Garden on Friday.

The Hurricanes lead the series with Game 4 here Sunday.
"You do everything you can to win. … It was a great team effort," Swayman said. "My first playoff start] was special. … It's a great experience every time you walk into a full building here, and playoffs are a whole different level. It was great to get the win in front of our hometown tonight."
Brad Marchand had a goal and two assists, and David Pastrnak and Charlie Coyle each had a goal and an assist for Boston, the first wild card in the East. The Bruins were 5-for-5 on the penalty kill.
"The penalty kill was good for us tonight, obviously," Boston coach Bruce Cassidy said. "It has been the whole series. Our power play caught up to it tonight, so that helps. Hopefully, we're a little cleaner out of the gate on Sunday, but playing with the lead, we've talked about it enough. It makes it different for both teams, and it certainly helped us tonight."
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Vincent Trocheck and Jaccob Slavin scored for Carolina, the No. 1 seed in the Metropolitan Division. Pyotr Kochetkov made 24 saves in his first playoff start. The rookie made 30 saves on 32 shots in relief of the injured Antti Raanta in Game 2, a 5-2 win Wednesday in his playoff debut.
"[Kochetkov] was fine. You can't blame him on any of the goals," Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "They were all back-door tap-ins and great players ripping good shots in pretty good areas. The top guys have to be better. It's simple."
Linus Ullmark started the first two games of the series for Boston, allowing four goals on 24 shots during a 5-1 loss in Game 1 on Monday before giving up four goals on 33 shots during a 5-2 loss in Game 2 on Wednesday.
Trocheck put the Hurricanes ahead 1-0 at 9:17 of the first period when he batted in the rebound of Brendan Smith's point shot.
Coyle tied it 1-1 with a shorthanded goal at 17:16, redirecting Jake DeBrusk's pass on the rush.
"We know what the issue is," Brind'Amour said. "We had a decent first period. Then the power play gave up a shorty, and they got some life out of it. If you give up too many looks to their top guys, they're going to make you pay. That's what happened."

Marchand gave the Bruins their first lead of the series, making it 2-1 at 5:41 of the second with a wrist shot in the slot after Brady Skjei blocked Patrice Bergeron's one-timer.
"I think it felt good to know that we can come back in these situations and we can respond the way we have in the past," Marchand said. "I think it's the most I've felt engaged. It had kind of been a little while since I've felt that into a game. … That's what we need to play with every day moving forward."
Pastrnak extended it to 3-1 on the power play at 14:53 with a wrist shot to the top left corner from the left face-off circle. Hall made it 4-1 at 4:08 of the third on the power play, finishing a give-and-go with Pastrnak.
Slavin cut it to 4-2 with a wrist shot from the point at 11:30.
"We knew they were going to be desperate. In the playoffs, you have to be," Slavin said. "Our 5-on-5 game was strong. We're getting opportunities. We know how to play and play solid that way. We've just got to stay out of the box. When we get a power play, we've got to make sure that's better, and execute on it."

The game was delayed for six minutes following Pastrnak's goal when a pane of glass fell on timeout coordinator Joe Foley, an NHL off-ice official in the penalty box. He was taken off the ice on a stretcher and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital for observation.
Pastrnak said he heard Foley is "doing all right, and he's going to be fine."
NOTES: Hurricanes forward Jordan Martinook left in the second with a lower-body injury after getting tangled with Hall along the boards in the neutral zone. Brind'Amour said Martinook "looked pretty rough in there." … Kochetkov had won his first four NHL games prior to Friday, including three in the regular season (two starts) from April 23-26. … This is the first playoff series in NHL history to have multiple games with opposing goalies each making their first playoff start. Ullmark and Raanta each did so in Game 1. … It was Swayman's second NHL playoff game. He made two saves on three shots for the Bruins in 18:34 in relief of Tuukka Rask in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Second Round last season, a 5-4 loss to the New York Islanders. … Marchand scored his 46th playoff goal to tie Phil Esposito for third in Boston history.