Boston Bruins force Game 7 against Carolina Hurricanes, are confident they can win it on road

BOSTON — The Boston Bruins won all three games they played against the Carolina Hurricanes at TD Garden, including Thursday night's 5-2 Game 6 victory. But Game 7 on Saturday is back in Raleigh, where the Hurricanes have won three games by a combined score of 15-4.

To advance to the second round, the Bruins will have to be their best in a place where they've played their worst.

«We'd rather be at home, I'm not going to lie to you,» Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. «But we'd play them on Mars if we had to. Right now, we just want to get after it.»

With a loud home crowd behind them, and the chance to dictate line matchups thanks to having the last change, the Bruins rolled through Game 6. Second-period goals by Brad Marchand — his fourth of the playoffs, all of them scored in Boston — and Charlie Coyle gave them the lead after a scoreless first period. Carolina winger Andrei Svechnikov made it interesting with a goal 3:24 into the third period, but goals by Erik Haula, Derek Forbort and Curtis Lazar in an 8:35 span broke the game open.

«Every mistake we made, it felt like they capitalized,» Carolina coach Rod Brind'Amour said. «We got down, and instead of sticking with it, we tried to do too much.»

For the Hurricanes, it was a missed opportunity to close out a veteran opponent that had eliminated them in two of the previous three postseasons.

«Right now it's tough,» Brind'Amour said. «It should feel brutal, to be honest with you. But then you wake up and you feel excited that you have an opportunity.»

The Bruins had won both previous games in Boston by reuniting the line of Marchand, Patrice Bergeron and David Pastrnak, dubbed by some as «The Perfection Line.» They powered their offense in Games 3 and 4, but Cassidy opted