Hurricanes extend home point streak to 10 in win

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Teuvo Teravainen needed only a moment to consider whether he had ever been the hero in overtime.
"I think that's my first overtime goal ever," Teravainen said after lifting the Carolina Hurricanes to a 3-2 win against the Boston Bruins at PNC Arena on Friday. "I can't remember [one]. It's a pretty cool feeling, and to help the team win, it's always a special moment."
Teravainen carried the puck through the neutral zone and shot from the top of the slot with 1:59 remaining. His ninth goal of the season completed a two-goal comeback in which the Bruins carried play for much of the first two periods.

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Cam Ward made 31 saves for the Hurricanes (15-11-7), who are 9-0-1 in their past 10 home games.
Carolina trailed 2-0 in the second period, but Jordan Staal scored shorthanded to start the rally. After Austin Czarnik fumbled the puck at the right point, Staal moved in on a clean breakaway and shot past Anton Khudobin's blocker for his seventh goal to make it 2-1 at 10:12.

Justin Faulk tied the game 2-2 with a wrist shot to the far post at 6:48 of the third. Staal won a faceoff to Elias Lindholm, who set up a wide-open Faulk in the right circle.
"Whatever happened at the blue line [with] Czarnik, I don't think it's his fault," said forward David Backes, who led the Bruins with seven shots. "Things happen, and we need to pick him up, and that next shift needs to be great. [Then] they run a faceoff play, we're not able to defend it very well and it's in the back of our net."
Boston began the game with plenty of jump, winning a lot of puck battles. Ryan Spooner's fifth goal gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead at 9:13 of the first period. David Krejci followed his rebound behind the net and passed to Torey Krug, whose one-timer went in off Spooner's skate at the right post.
The Bruins (18-14-4) capitalized on the first penalty of the game at 3:17 of the second period to take a 2-0 lead. Boston kept the puck in the offensive zone for the entire power play until Brad Marchand redirected Spooner's low shot through Ward's legs.
"[Boston] is a tough team, a team that played real well in the first two periods," said Ward, who has started each game on Carolina's three-game winning streak. "They played with a lot of pace and had us on our heels for much of the game, but it was great to see [Teravainen] cash in on the three-on-three."

Goal of the game

Teravainen moved the puck confidently from his defensive zone then used Spooner as a screen before sending a wrist shot under the crossbar.

Save of the game

David Pastrnak gathered Faulk's errant pass in the slot and sent a wrist shot toward Ward with 6:59 remaining in the first period. The goaltender came out on top of the crease and reached behind him to help smother the shot between his legs.

Highlight of the game

Staal's shorthanded goal was much needed on a night when the Hurricanes had trouble generating offense.
"Gave us a spark, right?" Hurricanes coach Bill Peters said. "You're looking for something, and that was huge. Huge moment in the game for sure."

Unsung performance of the game

With 11:10 remaining in the second period, the Bruins had an opportunity to push the lead to 3-0 on a 2-on-1. But after Marchand put the puck on Pastrnak's stick for a clean look at the net, defenseman Matt Tennyson managed to get the shaft of his stick on the shot.

They said it

"It's heartbreaking sometimes, how hard we work and how we're not capable of extending leads. And with the number of chances we had in those first two periods, and the number of chances that we gave them, I think the only real good chance they had in the second was that breakaway, the shorthanded goal. The rest of the period was basically ours." -- Bruins coach Claude Julien
"[Ward] did a great job of holding onto it for a while there and letting us get into the game a little bit more, get a little more compete in our game. He's been unbelievable for a while for us now." -- Hurricanes forward Jordan Staal
"We've been frustrated for a while. We can't score more than two goals right now. We know if we give up more than two, it's tough for us to win. We have to find a way to get that scoring touch, whether it's confidence or killer instinct, we've got to find a way." -- Bruins defensemen Torey Krug

Need to know

The Hurricanes are second in the NHL with five shorthanded goals behind the Calgary Flames (six). … Five players have scored Carolina's shorthanded goals. … Pastrnak attempted 11 shots. … Faulk had seven shots and five takeaways.

What's next

Bruins: At the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday (7 p.m. ET; SN, NESN, FS-O, NHL.TV)
Hurricanes: At the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday (7 p.m. ET; FS-CR, ROOT, NHL.TV)