It was Carolina\u2019s first home game since going 3-1-1 on a five-game road trip.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter a long road trip, you want to start the homestand the right way, and we were able to do that,\u201d Aho said. \u201cI thought we were creating enough offense to score more than two, but obviously we didn\u2019t have to score more than two. It\u2019s just tilting the ice in our advantage, and I thought we played a solid game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jackson Blake<\/a> also scored for the Hurricanes (10-2-2), who extended their point streak to four games (3-0-1). Kochetkov made 14 saves.<\/p>\n \u201cWe knew coming in, that was the way the game was going to go, so it\u2019s having the right mindset,\u201d Carolina coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cThey stick to what they\u2019re doing, and we stick to what we\u2019re doing, and we had a game plan. I thought we stuck with what we had to do. Pretty good game by this group.\u201d<\/p>\n Pavel Zacha<\/a> scored, and Swayman made 28 saves for the Bruins (9-3-1), who were 7-0-1 in their previous eight.<\/p>\n “Overall, I didn\u2019t mind our game,\u201d Boston coach Marco Sturm said. \u201cWe had a good jump right away from the start. There\u2019s small details, puck management, that they did just a little bit better than us. Other than that, I thought we played a pretty good road game.\u201d<\/p>\n The Bruins took a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 1:31 of the first period. David Pastrnak<\/a> made a backhand pass to Elias Lindholm<\/a>, who spun in the left face-off circle and fed Zacha for a tap-in at the right post.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we had a good start. That\u2019s something we want to be better at,\u201d Zacha said. \u201cA lot of 1-on-1 battles, and I think we did pretty good for most of the game. But then, in the end, they were able to score and we weren\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n Blake tied it 1-1 at 19:08. Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a> stripped the puck from Frederic Brunet<\/a>\u00a0below the goal line on the forecheck and passed to Blake, who skated it out of the left corner and scored around Swayman\u2019s left pad with the goaltender sprawled in the crease.<\/p>\n \u201cHe definitely has that confidence right now,\u201d Aho said of Blake. \u201cHe\u2019s silky, but he\u2019s also pretty strong on his stick. It takes some courage to challenge the guy like that. He\u2019s definitely feeling it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was Carolina\u2019s first home game since going 3-1-1 on a five-game road trip. \u201cAfter a long road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-949069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}