from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,

The Bruins were back on Tobacco Road Wednesday and, come night’s end, it looked as if their playoff season went up in smoke.

Once again unable to handle Carolina’s unremitting speed and opportunistic scoring touch, the Bruins fell behind by two goals in the first period and suffered a 5-2 loss that left them in an 0-2 deficit in their best-of-seven first-round series with the former Hartford Whalers.

The Bruins also didn’t have an answer for the Hurricanes’ chippiness and aggression, which included a heavy, shoulder-to-chin hit by Andrei Svechnikov on defenseman Hampus Lindholm late in the second period.

It left the Bruins with a huge hole on their backline, and Lindholm, believed to be concussed, will be out for a while, possibly the remainder of the postseason.

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