Recap: Teravainen, Canes Top Bruins 3-2 in OT

Analysis from Raleigh
→ The Carolina Hurricanes were outmatched early, but they were never down and out. Trailing by a deuce in the second period, the Hurricanes scored two unanswered goals in the final 30 minutes of regulation before Teuvo Teravainen found the back of the net in overtime to lift the Hurricanes over the Boston Bruins, 3-2.
"We've been in games where we've dominated and haven't been on the winning side, so I can't say I feel bad about taking the two points," said Cam Ward, who made 31 saves in back-to-back wins. "They're a tough team. They played real well in the first two periods and played with a lot of pace. We were on our heels for a lot of the game, but it was great to see Turbo cash in on the 3-on-3."
"We weren't perfect early, and we knew that. The guys were real good about staying with it," head coach Bill Peters said. "We got a spark off that shorthanded goal, and it gave us a little bit of life. Then we started to move our feet."

→ In the three-on-three session, Elias Lindholm laid the puck off to Teravainen, who took off through the neutral zone with speed, skated into the zone and snapped off a quick shot that beat Anton Khudobin.

With the 3-2 win, the Hurricanes have now earned points in their last 10 games at home (9-0-1).
"We've continued to play well here," said Jordan Staal, who tallied the Canes' first goal of the night. "You always want to have a building that's tough to come into and win."
"What a crowd. It was great to come home," Ward said. "Now everybody leaves happy, too."
→ The Bruins were the better team through much of tonight's game. They had noticeably more jump than the Hurricanes in the first period, taking a 1-0 lead and a 15-8 shot advantage to the locker room after 20 minutes of play. Ryan Spooner tallied the first goal, redirecting a Torey Krug shot alongside of the net.
Boston stretched their lead to two in the first four minutes of the second period, as Spooner's shot was deflected in front by Brad Marchand, a rare power-play goal surrendered by the Hurricanes' league-best penalty kill.
Ward helped to keep his team within striking distance.

"He did a great job of holding onto it for a while there and letting us getting into it a little bit more," Staal said of his netminder. "Wardo has been unbelievable for us for a while now."
"You've got to give the team an opportunity to get in the game. They were firing a lot of pucks at the net. I felt comfortable and felt good for it being a back-to-back," Ward said. "I just wanted to give our team a chance, and fortunately we were able to come back."
The comeback begin midway through the second period, as the Canes halved the Bruins' lead. On their second penalty kill of the game, Staal stole the puck at the blue line, raced down the ice, gave a quick head fake and fired one blocker side on Anton Khudobin, an old teammate who he might have beat like that in practice once or twice. The move was also eerily similar to his brother Eric's shorthanded tally in Montreal just a night prior.

"We definitely needed someone to step up, and Jordo scoring on that shorthanded breakaway definitely gave us a spark," Ward said. "You need guys to step up when things aren't going as planned."
"It gave us a spark. You're looking for something, and that was huge," Peters said of Staal's goal. "It was a huge moment in the game, for sure."
→ The Hurricanes evened the score at two in the third period off what looked to perhaps be a set faceoff play. After Staal won the draw, Lindholm skated toward the middle of zone and kicked it over to a penetrating Justin Faulk. He then scorched the wrister past Khudobin for his second goal in as many games.
"We pushed, we hung onto pucks a lot more in the third and made more plays," Peters said. "I give those guys credit for digging in and playing real good when the game was on the line in the last 30 minutes."

→ The Hurricanes and the rest of the NHL will now rest for three days over the holiday weekend. Carolina returns to the ice on Wednesday in Pittsburgh before finishing off 2016 with a back-to-back set against Chicago at home and Tampa Bay on the road.
"When you're playing well, you just kind of want to keep going," Ward said. "It's important to get the rest that you need over these three days, but don't let yourself go completely. I'll try to control my eating habits over the three-day break so I don't come back all bloated."
"It's a close team. A lot of young guys, so that makes it easy," Staal said. "They're together almost every day. You can tell the group is starting to come together even more on the ice, really getting behind each other and working for each other. That's what good teams need to have if you want to go far."
"We're comfortable with where our team game is, and we're comfortable with our lineup and taking it anywhere against anybody," Peters said. "It always seems to be a one-goal game no matter who we play, and we feel we can play with anybody in the league whether we're at home or on the road."