The hunted Bruins goalie Brian Boucher, taking a 5-1 lead in the second period. New round problem, even for the Flyers. Philadelphia has used two guards in three of its seven games of the first round against Buffalo.
For the second season, the Bruins to lead the Flyers to the second round. The Bruins led 3-0, a year ago, then the Flyers became the third NHL team to rally with four consecutive wins to win a series-of-seven.
Nathan Horton, Mark Recchi and Gregory Campbell also scored for Boston.
Game 2 is Monday in Philadelphia.
Since beating Montreal to advance to the second round, the Bruins have insisted that they would not be haunted by last year's epic collapse.
It is perhaps natural that Krejci was the star of Game 1.
Krejci watched Boston give the series from the sidelines after he was hit game 3 a year with a dislocated right wrist. He needed surgery and missed the rest of the series.
He lost no time to help the quest for Boston to erase the bad memories, marking a backhander off a rebound 1: 52 in. The objective foreshadows what is to come - Boston scored four of his five goals against Boucher on rebounds.
The Flyers have done little to help the butcher, who won the two games in relief against the Sabres, with a mediocre game from the net. But Boucher failed stop second chances often soft.
He was rocked for rookie Sergei Bobrovsky towards the end of the second period.
Tim Thomas, who rescued 93 percent of its shots in the first round, was robust in net for the Bruins.
Danny Briere scored his seventh of the playoffs, and James van Riesmsdyk and Mike Richards added goals for the Flyers.
Briere he attached to 1 for all, but Horton put the Bruins ahead for good with 36 seconds in the first period. Boucher made initial backup to a shot of the intestine, but Horton collects and shelled the puck off the coast of arms butcher for a 2-1 lead.
Recchi gave the Flyers start yet an another comeback with a goal 2: 33 in the second fast. It is a soft rebounder that Boucher slipped to as he followed behind him in the back of the net.
Krejci scored point and Marchand scored the rebound fourth with 2: 46 left in the second, a 5-1 lead. That is all for Boucher.
Boucher, winner of the seventh game of the Flyers, allowed five goals on 23 shots. Flyers coach Peter Laviolette new is forced to confront the weak link in the range. Bobrovszky won 28 games and started games 1 and 2 against Buffalo. He was replaced by Boucher in game 2 and has never played again.
Richards, Captain of the Flyers, busted a scoring slump with his first goal of the playoffs at the end of the third. His goal of playing to a 5-3.
Merchant quickly followed with his second goal for a 6-3 lead. Campbell completed the rout with 2: 21 left.
Perhaps that the Flyers should have attempted more boarding, hooking and asking because force same room did not help. Boston went 0-5 on the power play and extended their drought to 0 for 26 in the playoffs. The Bruins went to 0 for 21 against Canadians and became the first team to win a series of seven games without striking a power play goal.
LaViolette, said the day before game 1 he believes not in motion.
"I think in desperation," he said.
The Flyers have desperately needed once more.
Note: Boston won the season series 3-1. ... LaViolette was coach Assistant for the Bruins in 2000 - 2001. ... The Flyers are 15-20 in a series when they lose game 1.
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