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| - Jaroslav Halak, who was a late replacement for Tuukka Rask, stopped 29 shots as the Boston Bruins overcame a roster adjustment to beat Carolina 3-1 in game three of their first round NHL playoff series on Saturday. Charlie Coyle and Brad Marchand each had a goal and an assist and Sean Kuraly scored the other goal for Boston, who took a 2-1 series lead over the Hurricanes. David Krejci had two assists for the Bruins, who will play game four against Carolina in the best-of-seven series on Monday. Boston goaltender Rask opted out of the rest of the playoffs because of personal reasons. The move was announced 90 minutes prior to the start of the game at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. "I want to be with my teammates competing, but at this moment there are things more important than hockey in my life, and that is being with my family," Rask said. Halak, of Slovakia, had played in only the opener of the first five games for Boston since the coronavirus-interrupted season resumed earlier this month. "We are not going to change the way we play no matter who is in net," said Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy. "We can't be worried about who's out of the line-up. We have to worry about who is in the line-up." Carolina's Nino Niederreiter scored with 13:30 to play in the third period when Halak's turnover from behind the goal resulted in an easy shot into the empty net, cutting the Bruins lead to 2-1. Swiss forward Niederreiter was in the line-up after he was scratched in Thursday's game two. Goalie Petr Mrazek made stopped 36 stops for the Hurricanes. Finland's Rask has a career record in the NHL of 291-158-64 with 50 shutouts. He holds a 51-42 all-time playoff record. Rask had been the goalie in the Bruins' first two games of Carolina series and played in the last four of Boston's games overall. Rask's teammates said they supported his decision to be with his family. "We're behind him and we understand. Family comes first, we've always said that," said Bruins veteran Patrice Bergeron. Boston also was without star forward David Pastrnak, who missed his second game in a row. The Bruins declined to release details regarding his absence. Czech Pastrnak scored a team-leading 48 regular-season goals. Back-up goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 26 shots as the undefeated Vegas Golden Knights put the Chicago Blackhawks on the brink of elimination with a 2-1 victory. William Karlsson and Patrick Brown scored for Vegas who seized a 3-0 series lead and improved to 6-0 in the postseason. Top seeded Vegas can wrap up the best-of-seven series with a win Sunday. Olli Maatta scored a goal and Corey Crawford had 24 saves for Chicago, which advanced past Edmonton in the preliminary round. The Blackhawks failed to score on four powerplay chances Saturday and are a dismal one for eight in the series with the man advantage. Chicago pulled Crawford for an extra skater with 1:45 to go, but couldn't level the score. In Toronto, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 16 saves and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 to take a 2-1 series lead. Elsewhere, red-hot Darcy Kuemper stopped 49 shots and the Arizona Coyotes got some life in their series by holding on to beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-2. Colorado leads the series 2-1. gph/dh
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