The Bruins have been a resilient and admirable group for the most part this season. But the depleted B’s learned on Monday night that vim and vigor can take you only so far in the National Hockey League.

The Carolina Hurricanes were clearly the better team at the Garden and used two second period goals to power their way to the 3-1 win at the Garden

With half of their top-six forward group missing (Viktor Arvidsson, Elias Lindholm, Casey Mittelstadt) and their top defenseman (Charlie McAvoy) out as well, the B’s were up against it from the get-go. They’d been playing without the center Lindholm and Mittelstadt for a few games and pretty much survived those absences, but the losses of McAvoy and Arvidsson appeared to be camel’s backbreaker, at least against a team as good as Carolina.

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