Zdeno Chara and David Krejci scored 63 seconds opening and the Bruins added two more goals over a period of 95-deuxième in the second period Wednesday night to beat Philadelphia 5-1 Flyers and take an advance of 3-0 in the Eastern Conference semi-finals.
A year after watching their series 3-0 lead disappear into an unprecedented crisis, the Bruins moved once more a game sweep Philadelphia in seedlings of Conference. This year, they have a chance to do it at home, with game 4 Friday night at the TD garden.
Tim Thomas had 37 shots for Boston, which has not reached the final of the Conference since 1992.
Brian Boucher stopped 16 shots for the Flyers before he was replaced by 4: 46 left in the second period after Daniel straw and Nathan Horton scored to make it 4-0. Sergei Bobrovsky made seven saves for the rest of the road.
Andrej Meszaros spoiled submission of laundry Thomas' with 3: 34 left in the intervening period. From Flyers goalie with more than 2 minutes left, but penalties back to back gave the Bruins a 5-3 advantage. Chara put a slap shot in with 1: 22 left for first power play goal of the Boston of the playoffs.
The Boston Bruins right wing Michael Ryder, Centre, is sandwiched by the wing of the Philadelphia Flyers, Nikolay Zherdev, left right and the left wing James van Riemsdyk, right, while chasing the puck in the first period of game 3 of the playoffs hockey Conference Semifinal series of Eastern BostonMercredi, may 4, 2011 NHL Stanley Cup. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) CloseA victory in any of the next three games would help erase the sting of the collapse of last year, when Boston led 3-0 in games before Philadelphia came back to tie the series. In the seventh game, the Bruins took a 3-0 lead but lost 4-3 and then Flyers to the Stanley Cup finals.
That and the fact that the Bruins did not yet have 5-on-4, set to mark in the playoffs, keep to be too confident. Boston is 0 to 28 with a topic in advantage of man in game 3.
The Bruins returned to Boston after taking the first two games in Philadelphia to steal the home-ice advantage and jumped right on the Flyers.
Boucher made the initial backup on the first rank of Boston workload, but the puck wound up behind the net. Patrice Bergeron he dug, and sent to the front to Chara, which hit the NET just 30 seconds. Only 33 seconds later, with the crowd still celebrating the first purpose, Horton helped Krejci set up to make it 2-0.
Objectives have been fastest authorized by the Flyers at the beginning of a postseason game in history of the franchise. It was faster, a team had two goals to start a match since the Red Wings playoffs, both times in 61 seconds against Phoenix in 1998, according to STATS LLC.
And the Bruins retained.
Campbell crossing pass open straw left with a shot at 13: 39 of the second. Horton, a rookie in the playoffs, he was 4-0 with his fifth goal of the playoffs at 15: 14 of the period.
Notes: The Bruins signed D Ryan button to an entry-level contract. ... After scoring a goal, with no assists in the series of seven games first round against Montreal, Krejci scored four goals with two assists against the Flyers. ... Bruins D Adam McQuaid, who crashed into the boards head first and sprained her neck in game 2, has not played. Shane Hnidy takes its place. ... D Chris Pronger did not have the Flyers for the second game of law with an injured hand. But the scorer Jeff Carter returned after having missed the last three games of the first round and the first two of it with a knee injury.
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