The Flyers got the lead early in tonight's game, scoring just a few minutes into the 1st period. This was Philly's first lead of the series. The Fyers created a lot of crash and bang in the Bruins' zone, but to the Refs' credit, the teams were allowed to play and find a groove.After going down 1-0, the Bruins started turning the play around, and quickly reeled off 2 goals in a minute and a half, losing David Krejci on a hit as he passed to Miro Satan for the game winning goal. Highly dramatic stuff, sports fans.
From that point on, I felt the Bruins just slowly took over the game. With the exception of powerplay opportunities the B's pretty much closed the Flyers down and potted 2 more goals (including the empty net) when the chances came up.
The Bruins lost McQuaid to injury as well, so they played 2 men short, and still blocked shots and caused forecheck hell on the Flyers through the neutral zone. It was a really well executed game plan, but pretty dangerous. The shot margin greatly favoured Philly and Tuukka Rask was expected to be, and was, outstanding.
I think it is interesting that Bergeron shot for the empty net (rather than pass) tonight, given that he messed up the open net in Game 2.
This win puts the Bruins up in the series by the glorious 3-0 margin. Only 2 teams in history have come back from that deficit.
Unbelievably, the B's could eliminate Philly as early as Friday, in a 4 game sweep. Personally, I think Philly is good for at least 1 home-win, given that up til tonight they were perfect at home in the playoffs.
But that honour is now solely the Bruins' - they are the only team who remain undefeated at home this year.
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