Boston Bruins at Carolina Hurricanes: game preview
BostonBruins2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 45-27-10 · 100 pts · 8that
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndThirteen points apart last season
Boston finished last season 8th in the league on 100 points. Carolina finished 2nd on 113.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 129
Across 128 completed games, Boston lead the head-to-head 67-49-12.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 1 Nov 2025, Boston were 17th in the league and Carolina 12th. By 7 Apr 2026 it was 9th and 2nd.
Carolina out-attempted Boston 215 to 143
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Boston Bruins
Carolina Hurricanes
Carolina have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 4 games for Boston, 4 for Carolina. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Boston, 10 for Carolina.
2025-26: 82 games for Boston, 86 for Carolina.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Boston
Small sampleCarolina
Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Boston crease
BOS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Dec
No appearances against Carolina in the last meetings.
Carolina crease
CAR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Dec
No appearances against Boston in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.2 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Boston2.252.753.323.05
Carolina2.753.003.612.93Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
3 on the injury lists
Boston · injuries
Carolina · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Reinstated C Matthew Poitras from injured reserve.
Placed RW Michael Eyssimont on waivers.
Placed D Henri Jokiharju on waivers. Placed C Matthew Poitras on injured reserve.
Placed G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Boston · 2026 draft
See all: Boston · 2026 draft →Carolina · 2026 draft
See all: Carolina · 2026 draft →Sunday 13 December · the full slate
See all: Sunday 13 December · the full slate →
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