Everyone, it seemed, stopped to marvel at how Mike Richards buried his shoulder into David Krejci at the far blue line and dropped the Bruins center like an egg from a rooftop.
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* Everyone except Milan Lucic and Miroslav Satan.
“It was kind of a weird situation,’’ said Lucic. “[Krejci] tipped it a little bit and the puck kept going. I saw Miro going up the ice, so I just went after the puck.
“I knew it was a two-on-one situation. Miro did a great job beating his guy up the ice. He was wide open for pretty much a breakaway pass. They had all four guys up. Seems like everyone admired the hit except me and Miro. We were able to capitalize on it.’’
What happened next wasn’t just a goal that put some gloss on Krejci’s injury. It turned out to be the winner in last night’s 4-1 victory before 19,688 at the Wachovia Center, a go-ahead, kick-to-the-teeth strike that wiped out an early 1-0 Philadelphia lead.
With Matt Carle caught up the ice and Dan Carcillo unable to recover on the backcheck, Lucic connected with Satan. The winger flew past Chris Pronger, waited for goalie Brian Boucher to bite on his forehand (puck patience is something Satan has displayed throughout the playoffs), then tucked a backhander behind the goalie at 5:45 to put the Flyers down, 2-1.
It was a lead the Bruins wouldn’t relinquish. Mark Recchi netted a third-period power-play goal. Then Patrice Bergeron buried the little-resistance Flyers with an empty-netter at 18:08 to put the Bruins a skate blade’s width away from advancing to the Eastern Conference finals. Game 4 is tomorrow at the Wachovia Center.
“We have to realize that they’re really desperate,’’ said Bergeron. “They’re a great team. They’re tough to beat in this building. Their fans are pretty passionate. We need to be ready. You don’t win a series with three games. So we need that fourth game.’’
As expected of a club down, two games to none, Philadelphia came out knocking heads, dropping bodies, and putting heat on Tuukka Rask early. For the first time in the series, the Flyers scored the opening goal.
Adam McQuaid, holding the right point at the offensive blue line, couldn’t get his body in front of a puck that Pronger had cleared off the glass. Then when Blair Betts gained control of the puck, the fourth-line center threaded a pass past McQuaid to Claude Giroux, springing a two-on-one against Andrew Ference.
Giroux, steaming down the left wing, saucered a pass over Ference’s stick to Arron Asham, who rammed a shot past Rask (34 saves) at 2:32 to give the Flyers a 1-0 edge.
But the Bruins counterpunched before the Flyers could take advantage of the emotional burst. At 4:11, the Bruins tied the score. Six seconds earlier, the goal-scoring sequence started poorly. Marc Savard lost an offensive-zone faceoff to Richards — something he figured was coming.Continued...december
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