For a while on Monday night, it looked like the Bruins were ready to put their regular-season-Carolina woes behind them and morph into Playoff Mode.
A solid first period (really, first 35 minutes) was undone by two quick goals-against late in the second, then a calamity of errors in the third put the game out of reach.
Carolina skated to a convincing (on the scoreboard, at least) 5-1 win in Game 1 in Raleigh.
To the highlights!
After a good start to the game, you knew it was going to be a wacky bounce, right?