Bruins take care of business, beat Hurricanes 4-1

Boston Bruins forward Reilly Smith buries a feed from Carl Soderberg on the power play to take a 1-0 lead over the Carolina Hurricanes.

The Bruins took advantage of a struggling team making mistakes during the game and capitalizing on those mistakes. Tuukka Rask was solid again in net and lead the Bruins to a 4-1 win over the Hurricanes.

Quick game summary
In the first period, Bruins Reilly Smith scored his 3rd goal of the season, a power-play goal, making it 1-0 Bruins. Later, Bruins Carl Soderberg scored his 2nd goal of the season, making it 2-0 Bruins. With five seconds left in the period, Hurricanes Tuomo Ruutu scored, making it 2-1.

In the second period, no scoring happened.

In the third period, Bruins Johnny Boychuk scored his 1st goal of the season, making it 3-1 Bruins. With eleven seconds left in the game, Bruins Milan Lucic scored his 9th goal of the season, an empty-net goal, making it 4-1 Bruins.

Game notes
Tuukka Rask played in net for the Bruins and made 23 saves on 24 shots. Rask is now 11-5-1 with a 1.64 GAA and a .944 save percentage this season.

The Bruins led the game in shots 30-24. The Hurricanes led the game in hits 34-23, faceoff wins 32-23 and blocked shots 20-10. The Bruins went 1-for-2 on the power-play while the Hurricanes went 0-for-4.

Carl Soderberg and Torey Krug led the Bruins with 5 shots each. Milan Lucic led the Bruins with 6 hits. Johnny Boychuk led the Bruins with 3 blocked shots.

Player notes
Adam McQuaid (injured) and Shawn Thornton were scratched while Jordan Caron got into the lineup.

Onto the next one
The Bruins are now 13-6-1 with 27 points and 2nd place in the Atlantic Division. The next game for the Bruins is tomorrow at the New York Rangers at 7:30pm ET.