"It was a good game for us. It's nice to produce some points, too, but a big win for us," Aho said. "I felt like the whole team was in the game. Everyone played really well."
"That was special. They were flying," head coach Rod Brind'Amour said. "It was nice to see them get rewarded."
Two
At first, this one seemed like the same old tune for the Hurricanes.
Just 2:40 into the game, Torey Krug's point shot bounced around in the slot. Ryan Donato got a stick on it, and the puck popped up and bounced off Trevor van Riemsdyk into the net.
Later, after the Hurricanes failed to capitalize on 57 seconds of a 5-on-3 advantage and the remaining conventional 5-on-4 power play that followed, Steven Kampfer's wrist shot from the point had eyes through traffic to give the Bruins a 2-0 lead.
"It felt like the same old thing was going to happen. They got kind of a weird one to start the game. Bounced around," Brind'Amour said. "Then you get down 2-0. We were actually playing fine."
"Down 2-0, I'm sure you get those thoughts in your head like, 'Oh, God. This again,'" Aho said. "But it was really good to see that our team can come from down 2-0 against a good team."
Three
The Hurricanes worked to get a bounce of their own just four minutes after falling in a two-goal hole. Teravainen tossed the puck toward the net - a pass, he said, that was looking for Aho darting toward the net, of course - that Charlie McAvoy gloved into his own net.
The Canes would take that.