"New Carolina coach Kirk Muller was saying yesterday morning that he wants the Hurricanes to become a team that is hard to play against.

The Bruins could attest that the 'Canes are already just that.

"What we normally do to other teams, they did to us very well," Bruins coach Claude Julien said after his club dropped its third game of the season to the Hurricanes, 4-2, in the opener of a four-game trip."