Canes catch Bruins for 2nd spot in East

The Carolina Hurricanes netted two goals in the second period and two more in the third en route to a 4-1 win over the host Boston Bruins in Tuesday night’s battle of Eastern Conference playoff contenders.

Andrei Svechnikov had a goal and an assist to pace Carolina (50-22-7, 107 points), which used its third straight win to move into a tie for second place in the conference standings with Boston.

Teuvo Teravainen, Jake Guentzel and Seth Jarvis also found the back of the net, and Jaccob Slavin recorded two assists to round out the Hurricanes’ offense.

Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 22 shots in Carolina’s net. Charlie McAvoy scored the lone goal and Jeremy Swayman made 22 saves for the Bruins (46-18-15, 107 points). seconds later for the Lightning (44-27-7, 95 points). He added an empty-net tally for his 39th goal to go along with an earlier assist. Brayden Point took the Tampa Bay lead with his 44th goal.

In his fourth straight three-point game, the Lightning’s Nikita Kucherov registered three assists for his 39th multi-point outing, passing his franchise record set in 2018-19.

It was Kucherov’s 11th three-assist game this season. Brandon Hagel had two assists for Tampa Bay and Anthony Duclair notched his 300th career NHL point with a helper. opening goal.

Charlie Lindgren made 42 saves and came up one second short of recording his sixth shutout as the Capitals snapped a six-game winless streak. Their last victory also came at the Red Wings’ expense on March 26.

Washington (37-30-11) improved its chances for an automatic or wild-card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Patrick Kane scored the only goal for Detroit (38-32-8). Alex Lyon stopped 21 shots, but the Red Wings absorbed a damaging loss in their drive for a wild-card berth.

MacKinnon also added an assist. With the four points, MacKinnon (137 points) pulled to within two of Nikita Kucherov (139 points) of the Tampa Bay Lightning for the NHL lead.

Cale Makar scored a goal and added two assists, and Artturi Lehkonen had the other goal for Colorado (49-24-6, 104 points), which leapfrogged the Winnipeg Jets into second place in the Central Division. Jonathan Drouin had three assists, and Alexandar Georgiev made 20 saves.