Boston Bruins (43-26-9, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (49-22-6, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Raleigh, North Carolina; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Bruins are looking to end a three-game skid with a win over the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n
Carolina is 49-22-6 overall and 28-10-2 at home. The Hurricanes have a +45 scoring differential, with 270 total goals scored and 225 given up.<\/p>\n
Boston is 15-16-8 on the road and 43-26-9 overall. The Bruins are second in league play with 362 total penalties (averaging 4.6 per game).<\/p>\n
The matchup Tuesday is the third time these teams square off this season. The Hurricanes won 3-1 in the last meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sebastian Aho has scored 26 goals with 52 assists for the Hurricanes. Logan Stankoven has five goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
David Pastrnak has 29 goals and 67 assists for the Bruins. Pavel Zacha has scored seven goals and added six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hurricanes: 7-3-0, averaging four goals, 6.4 assists, 3.3 penalties and 6.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Bruins: 6-3-1, averaging 3.4 goals, 5.8 assists, 3.8 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hurricanes: Pyotr Kochetkov: out (hip), Jordan Staal: day to day (undisclosed), Jordan Martinook: day to day (undisclosed).<\/p>\n
Bruins: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Boston Bruins (43-26-9, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (49-22-6, in the Metropolitan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-544566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116360443730728593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}