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Bruins RALEIGH, N.C.(AP) - David Pastrnak eclipsed the 50-goal mark by scoring twice and the Boston Bruins won their seventh game in a row by defeating the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 in a shootout Sunday.Charlie Coyle and Jake DeBrusk Scored in the shootout in a matchup of Eastern Conference division leaders.

Bruins David Pastrnak also recorded his 600th career point on his record-setting tally.David Pastrnak joined some esteemed company on Sunday evening.The Bruins winger scored his 50th goal of the season just 4:43 into the first period of Sunday's matchup against the Hurricanes at PNC Arena, becoming just the sixth player in franchise history to light the lamp 50 or more times in a single campaign.

Just the facts
When: Today, 1 PM
Where: TD Garden - Boston, MA
How to follow: NESN, 98.5 The Sports Hub
Rival SBN site: Canes Country
Know your enemy


     10-6-4, 24 points, 3rd in the Metropolitan Division
     Martin Necas: 9G-14A-23PTS; Sebastian Aho: 9G-13A-22PTS; Andrei Svechnikov: 13G-7A-20PTS
     Antti Raanta: 3-2-2, 2.53 GAA, .902

The Carolina Hurricanes and Florida Panthers meet in the Eastern Conference Final with the winner earning a spot in the Stanley Cup Final.Both teams have had different paths to the Eastern Conference Final, with Florida having the harder path.The Panthers took down the record-setting Boston Bruins, four games to three, and then eliminated the Toronto Maple Leafs, four games to one.

The second round of the 2023 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs is nearly complete.Accordingly, it's a great time to start looking at candidates to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as the postseason's most valuable player.There are several candidates as we near the midway point, but they can't all fit into the top five, which is what you'll see here.

Maple Leafs' John Tavares celebrates after scoring the eventual game-winner in a 3-1 victory over the Hurricanes on Sunday in Raleigh, N.C.(Karl B DeBlaker/The Associated Press) John Tavares scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-1 Sunday for their first three-game winning streak of the season.

Welcome to the NHL, Keith, Keith, Keith, Keith!He might be in the NHL for real next weekend, too, but for now, it's last year's surprise hero Erik Källgren who has to step up.He survived a period last night that included a somewhat scary shift late.Can he get the win tonight against Frederik Andersen?

Pyotr Kochetkov can be seen as the next Alex Nedeljkovic.He came into a situation that had goalies injured and played extremely well.Nedeljkovic played his way into Calder Trophy consideration and led the Carolina Hurricanes to much success in his first season.With Nedljkovic gone, the throne may have been passed to Kotchetkov.

The 2023 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs have reached the Conference Finals.Accordingly, players are establishing themselves as candidates to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as the postseason's most valuable player.There are several candidates to win MVP as round three gets underway, but they can't all fit into the top five, which is what you'll see here.

Each season, there are always a few older veterans on teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs searching for their first championship.Entering the Conference Finals, there are a handful of great veterans to highlight on all of the four teams.So many players play their entire career without winning the Stanley Cup, for some, winning the trophy comes right at the tail end of their career.

There have been a lot of shocking moments during the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs, but the most surprising element of the postseason is not that Boston is out or that Colorado lost in round one to the Seattle Kraken.The biggest surprise of the Stanley Cup playoffs has to be how lack luster the goaltending has been.

With the American Hockey League regular season down to its final two-plus weeks, some NHL teams have opted to send top prospects with NHL experience to their AHL affiliates to face the pressure and scrutiny that comes with the push to the Calder Cup Playoffs.Here is a look at five players who will be counted on by their AHL teams down the stretch: William Eklund, San Jose (San Jose Sharks) The Sharks could have opted to keep Eklund on their roster for the rest of the regular season.

When two teams play hockey for 60 minutes, then go for 79 minutes and 47 seconds more of overtime, you immediately turn to the record books.But such is the nature of N.H.L. playoff hockey that the Florida Panthers' 3-2 win over the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh that ended early Friday morning was not the longest game ever.

Bruins If the Bruins need to clear cap space and recoup assets, moving a goalie might be an option this summer.Don Sweeney stated the obvious during the Bruins' end-of-season press conference on May 9.
"Roster changes are likely coming," Boston's general manager noted."We're not going to be the same team."

Here we are - 24 games into the season, just past the quarter mark of what has been an exceptionally up-and-down season.The quarter mark, in my mind, is where statistics and performances start becoming meaningful.It's where legitimate trends can be identified, which makes it an interesting point for analysis.

The Leafs need a goalie again, or so it seems from the depth chart:
Matt Murray: played one game, got hurt in a practice and his return is said to be "on the horizon".He only just started skating at the end of last week, so it seems unlikely he'll ride up by this weekend.Ilya Samsonov: hurt his knee in a game on November 5, had not yet had an MRI as of the time of writing, and is out at least through the coming weekend.

The New Jersey Devils came alive in Game Three against the Carolina Hurricanes.Hope you like goals.This game had goals.(Note: I'm covering the Devils this postseason, which apparently sucks for the first two games of each series?)The first goal of the game was Timo Meier's first point of the playoffs, a stuff made possible by Jack Hughes.

This is your place to check for updates and comment along with the Washington Capitals vs. Carolina Hurricanes game on February 14, 2023.The Washington Capitals, teetering in playoff position, are facing one of the most challenging and pivotal parts of their schedule, a stretch of three games in five days that sees them play the Carolina Hurricanes twice and the Florida Panthers.

Stefan Noesen, left, opened the scoring for the Hurricanes, to the dismay of the Capitals' Lars Eller.(Chris Seward/AP) RALEIGH, N.C. - Darcy Kuemper was locked in from the start of Monday's tilt with the fiery Carolina Hurricanes, turning away shot after shot in a tight matchup of Metropolitan Division rivals.

The New Jersey Devils outlasted the New York Rangers to advance to round two.Their opponent?The Carolina Hurricanes.The Hurricanes withstood the New York Islanders and now take another step toward lifting Lord Stanley.The best-of-seven series begins on Wednesday, May 3 with Game 2 on Friday, May 5.
New Jersey was 2-1-1 against Carolina during the regular season.

Last season I wrote a monthly piece about players from the Maple Leafs organization who left in the off-season and how they performed monthly with their new teams.I wrote about players like Zach Hyman, Frederik Andersen, Nick Foligno, Zach Bogosian, and some others.This season, I'll be following former Maple Leafs, Jack Campbell, Ilya Mikheyev, Petr Mrazek, Ilya Lyubushkin, Colin Blackwell, and Ondrej Kase.