"The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Boston Bruins twice in October, with the season in its infancy.

The Bruins were still mentally celebrating their run to the 2011 Stanley Cup.

Their focus was missing and frustration mounting, and they had 17 penalties - and displayed some ugliness - in the second loss to the Canes, Oct. 18 in Boston.

But that was then.

The Bruins came in to the RBC Center on Saturday playing as well as any team in the NHL, came in talking about redemption.

And lost to the Canes again.

Trailing 2-1 in the third period, the Hurricanes scored three times to top the Bruins 4-2 and clinch the season series.

Defenseman Justin Faulk and Jay Harrison scored on blasts from the points and Eric Staal added an empty-netter to extend his point streak to five games.

Cam Ward had 33 saves in net as the Canes won their second straight and had the sellout crowd of 18,680 rumbling.

"It does feel good," Staal said. "Obviously they've got their game going since we played them the last two times. We got down one there but we stuck with our game. It was great to battle back and a good win."

The Hurricanes (16-23-7) did not have a power play in a home game for the first time in franchise history.

Their four goals - Pat Dwyer scored in the second period for a 1-1 tie - came at even strength against a team that had outscored opponents 105-50 five-on-five this season."