Bruins flyers 2010 game 7

It got to be overtime, and him and trainer Jimmy McCrossin were communicating all the time. He said he was good to go, and he played a shift and he scored a really huge goal. Boucher: We needed a little jolt of energy. He gave it to us and he obviously gave us a huge jolt contributing the way he did. And now you got that one game. You set out to accomplish one thing, and you did it.

You got one win. Lucic: We weren't overly upset because we knew we had the series lead and we had all the momentum and everything. We're like, "It's all right, they got one, it's just one game. No team's ever come back from down , we'll just beat them at home in Game 5.

Three days later, Philadelphia was leading at of the second period in Game 5 in Boston when Boucher stopped a Savard shot. Flyers defenseman Ryan Parent and Satan fell on top of Boucher, who had his legs pinned under him. Boucher: The puck squirted behind me, and I was in a butterfly and I was reaching back with the paddle of my stick to go get it. As I was going back, Ryan Parent pushed one of the Bruins players onto me.

And I could feel him [landing] on my chest, and as I was falling back, I couldn't get my legs out from underneath me. My legs got stuck and I ended up spraining both my MCLs; had a Grade 2 sprain in one of my knees and a Grade 1 in the other. It was excruciating pain.

I thought I blew my knees out, thought it was the ACL in both knees. Michael Leighton, the Flyers' backup goalie, was in uniform for the first time since March 16, when he sprained his ankle during a game against the Nashville Predators.

Briere: I think because it happened during the game, as players you don't have time to think about it. If it happens in between games the hamster gets going, you start thinking about all kinds of things and it's easy to get off your game. When it happens in the course of a game, you don't have time to think, "OK, how is this guy going to react?

He hasn't been playing, it's his first time on the bench. I knew him really well. He's a good goalie, but Michael Leighton came in and he shut the door for the rest of the year. For him to go back in the net, it wasn't like we were taking Michael Leighton off the waiver wire and let's see what he can do. Leighton made 14 saves, and Philadelphia won Leighton and Boucher were credited with the second combined shutout in postseason history; the only other time it had been done was by Jacques Plante and Charlie Hodge of the Montreal Canadiens, against the Bruins on March 22, Leighton started the remaining 13 games for Philadelphia, with Boucher coming on in relief twice.

Boucher: That is very hard; he steps into that game and we're down or and it's mop-up duty and the series closes out and we lose in five and shake hands, it's not the biggest story ever. But the fact that he has to come in and preserve a lead in a must-win situation, you don't have another game to screw around with. Very hard. Savard: There wasn't a lot of panic in our dressing room. We had the lead and we kept talking about that.

We were very confident about that. I know their goalie got hurt and the other guy came in and he played well. But it never really got to us. Briere: The way we won Game 5, handily gave it to them … that's when I'm sure in their minds it started going sideways, and in our minds everything is getting back on track. Now we're getting the bounces, things are falling into place the way it should be. Everyone's feeling more and more confident at that point.

Leighton made 30 saves in Game 6 and did not allow a goal until Lucic scored with one minute left. The Flyers won to force Game 7. Lucic: They went up quick in Game 6, and that was one of the loudest crowds that I've ever heard.

We got down and then, all of a sudden, the Philly hometown crowd became an issue for us to get back in the game. James van Riemsdyk , Flyers rookie forward: I think being in that situation now of having played a few years and being in different situations where that might happen, I can now think back and think that's tough when you're up and you lose the next couple.

There has to be a little seed of doubt starting to creep back in there. In Game 7 in Boston, the Bruins scored three times in the first of the game, including two goals by Lucic. Video: Round 2, Gm7: Down in series, Flyers rally. Briere: We got off to such a bad start, and I remember just seeing red. I was livid; I honestly lost control.

We were all furious. We had worked so hard to get back to this point and to start this way, I was seeing red. I was so mad that it was happening after putting in all the work to get back in this series. That's what I was thinking in the moment; we're not even going to give ourselves a chance by playing this way. Thornton: I remember we scored the third goal, the bench [was] erupting, jumping up and down. After that third goal, I think we might have gotten a little complacent.

Laviolette: I'm from Massachusetts. Boston's got a lot of history, it's a big sports town, they have some passionate fans. That building was absolutely crazy because of the 14 minutes and the way they played them.

People say 'blow the roof off the building'; I thought it was going to happen. Lucic was unbelievable with the way he was playing with his physicality, the way he powered to the net on a couple goals.

Laviolette: I never really liked to call [a timeout] after a goal's been scored on the road because it's almost ridiculous, you're trying to talk over 18, fans, and how loud it was in that building, they were about to blow [the roof] off.

The purpose of the timeout was to stop the game and see if we could break [the momentum] and move it in a different direction. The message was pretty simple, it was the only thing I could think of at the time, probably what everyone was thinking: There's five minutes left on the clock, if you could just get one goal and make it , send it in to the intermission with that goal and only having to score two to tie it up over the course of 40 minutes, that's not unrealistic.

So that was the message on the bench: Just get one goal, score one goal. Briere: To me it did not make sense. I look back now and it's clear as day that that's what was needed. I remember Peter just saying all we need is one goal, and he kept repeating that. And if you look at the video, he's holding his one finger up. He's saying guys, just one goal, we just need one goal before the end of the period and it's going to change everything.

I remember being so mad I couldn't even really process what he was saying and what was going on. Van Riemsdyk: I remember throwing one on net, hit a stick, hit someone's foot and then it went through the five-hole of Tuukka Rask.

Chris Pronger , Daniel Briere. Patrice Bergeron , Dennis Wideman. Matt Carle , Mike Richards. Steve Begin. Patrice Bergeron. Johnny Boychuk. Zdeno Chara. Andrew Ference. Matt Hunwick. Milan Lucic. Daniel Paille.

Mark Recchi. Michael Ryder. Miroslav Satan. Marc Savard. Vladimir Sobotka. Mark Stuart. Shawn Thornton. Blake Wheeler. Trent Whitfield. Dennis Wideman. Tuukka Rask. Arron Asham. Blair Betts. Daniel Briere. Daniel Carcillo. Matt Carle. Braydon Coburn. Simon Gagne. Claude Giroux. Scott Hartnell. Gagne made a timely return to the lineup, scoring in overtime to help the Philadelphia Flyers hold off elimination by beating the Boston Bruins on Friday night in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Gagne, the longest-tenured Flyer, played for the first time since he broke his right toe in Game 4 of Philadelphia's opening-round series against the New Jersey Devils. Game 5 is Monday at Boston. The Bruins can still advance to their first conference finals since with a win on home ice.

Matt Carle , who had four assists, fed Gagne for a nice redirect from the top of the crease for the winner. Gagne said he told coach Peter Laviolette and the trainer to "give me a chance.

The comeback trail is still a long one, but the Flyers at least have a shot at becoming the third team in NHL history to rally from an deficit to win a series. Former Flyers star Mark Recchi scored twice for the Bruins -- including the tying goal with Michael Ryder and Milan Lucic had Boston's other goals. Gagne was expected to at least miss this round after being injured while blocking a shot.

He was walking around the Flyers' practice facility this week and was hopeful he could start skating this weekend. He managed an early comeback and heard a rousing ovation when he was introduced in pregame introductions. I tried to get my glove under it. Recchi burned his former team when he scored against Brian Boucher off a faceoff in Philadelphia's end.

The sounds of "Booooosh" that echoed after every late save turned to "boooo" after the Flyers were headed to OT.