Boston breaks through in win over Carolina

Brad Marchand had a goal and two assists on Friday night to help the Bruins take their first lead against the Hurricanes all season — and hold on to it for a 4-2 victory over Carolina in Boston in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series.

Rookie Jeremy Swayman stopped 25 shots in his first career playoff start after Linus Ullmark allowed eight goals in the first two games, both Hurricanes victories. That followed a regular season in which Carolina swept all three games, outscoring the Bruins 16-1 and never trailing.

Charlie Coyle scored a shorthanded goal and added an assist, and David Pastrnak had a powerplay goal and an assist for Boston, which hopes to even the best-of-7 series when it hosts Game 4 on Sunday. Taylor Hall added a power-play goal for the Bruins to make it 4-1 early in the third period.

Vincent Trocheck and Jaccob Slavin scored for Carolina, and backup goalie Pyotr Kochetkov made 24 saves in his first career playoff start. He took over in Game 2 after Antti Raanta was injured in a collision with Pastrnak.

The Hurricanes lost forward

Jordan Martinook in the second period when he got his legs tangled with Boston’s Taylor Hall. Martinook got back on his skates, but couldn’t put any weight on his right leg. He did not return.

WILD 5, BLUES 1 » Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and an assist, Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 29 shots, and Minnesota breezed in St. Louis Blues to take a 2-1 lead in their Western Conference playoff series. Joel Erickson Ek had a goal and an assist, and Jordan Greenway, Mats Zuccarello and Jonas Brodin also scored for the Wild.

MAPLE LEAFS 5, LIGHTNING 2 » Jack Cambell had 32 saves — including three to protect the lead on a late power play — and Toronto took a 2-1 series lead in the first-round Eastern Conference matchup. Ilya Mikheyer had two empty-net goals in the final two minutes, and Morgan Rielly, Colin Blackwell and David Kampf also scored for Toronto.

PENGUINS GOALIE DESMITH LOST FOR PLAYOFFS » The rest of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ playoff run won’t include goalie Casey DeSmith. Coach Mike Sullivan said DeSmith underwent core surgery and will miss the rest of the postseason.