The Carolina Hurricanes got their Stanley Cup Playoffs journey started in commanding fashion Monday night in PNC Arena, beating the Boston Bruins 5-1 to take a 1-0 series lead.
The story of the night for the Hurricanes was netminder Antti Raanta, who stopped 35 of 36 shots faced in his first playoff appearance. Rookie Seth Jarvis opened the scoring for the Canes in the second period, with Nino Niederreiter, Teuvo Teravainen, Vincent Trocheck and Andrei Svechnikov adding goals for the home team.
It was a really tight game for the first half of the night, but things opened up especially in the third period as the Hurricanes were able to put their foot on the gas and take a nice advantage to open up the series.