4:38 PM ET
Associated Press
BOSTON -- The Boston Bruins acceptable the NHL grounds for astir location victories to commencement a play with their 12th straight, topping the Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 successful overtime Friday with a power-play extremity from David Pastrnak.
The Bruins broke the people of 11 that was acceptable by the 1963-64 Chicago Blackhawks and equaled past play by the Florida Panthers.
"That felt awesome," first-year Bruins manager Jim Montgomery said. "We talked astir it aft the 2nd [period] going into the third. There's been a batch of large teams successful this league, and you're capable to acceptable a precedent, interruption a record. It's beauteous special, and it doesn't hap if those guys don't judge successful themselves similar they do.''
Boston, which trailed 2-0 precocious successful the 2nd period, tied it with 9:33 near successful regularisation erstwhile David Krejci scored his 2nd extremity of the crippled connected a changeable from the close point.
"It's ne'er amusive being down going into the third; you're sitting [in the locker room] trying to fig it out," Krejci said. "You privation to travel retired and bash the job, thing peculiar connected the line. It's hard to triumph successful this league. To get 12 successful a enactment astatine location is beauteous special."
In overtime, Carolina was playing short-handed aft being called for excessively galore men connected the crystal erstwhile Pastrnak one-timed a walk from Brad Marchand wrong the acold station from supra the near circle.
"It was a large triumph for us, obviously, coming from behind," Pastrnak said.
Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Stefan Noesen each scored a power-play extremity for Carolina, and Pyotr Kochetkov made 38 saves. The Hurricanes mislaid their 5th straight.
Boston's tying extremity was primitively disallowed due to the fact that of goaltender interference connected Nick Foligno, but that was overturned connected a coach's situation aft it was ruled that Foligno was nudged into the crease by Carolina defenseman Brett Pesce.
Boston starting goaltender Linus Ullmark made 28 saves but had to permission with 13:03 near successful the 3rd play with an undisclosed upper-body injury. Teammate Connor Clifton had jumped connected him to artifact a changeable during a scramble. Jeremy Swayman made six stops successful relief.
In a rematch of past spring's opening-round playoff bid that the Hurricanes won successful 7 games, Carolina unopen retired the NHL's highest-scoring squad for astir 2 periods and jumped up with a brace of power-play goals successful the opening period.
Noesen scored astatine 6:34 successful to marque it 1-0. And with 5 minutes near successful the period, Kotkaniemi collected the puck adjacent the broadside of the nett aft Seth Jarvis' changeable bounced disconnected the backmost solid and slipped it wrong the station astatine 15:05.
Krejci scored for Boston with 31 seconds near successful the second.
Boston came successful with a league-high 82 goals successful 20 games (4.10 per), but it was held to comparatively fewer chances contempt getting a 5-on-3 power-play vantage aboriginal successful the game.
The Bruins besides connected Friday honored skipper Patrice Bergeron, who recorded his 1,000th vocation constituent erstwhile the squad was connected the roadworthy Monday against Tampa Bay, with a connection connected the elephantine video screen. The assemblage gave him a lasting ovation.
Bergeron became conscionable the 4th Bruin to scope the mark, joining Hall of Famers Ray Bourque (1,506), Johnny Bucyk (1,339) and Phil Esposito (1,012).
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