Bruins Rally To Beat Flyers
BOSTON (AP) -- Steve Kampfer broke a tie with 1:14 left in Boston's five-goal third period to help the Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 7-5 on Thursday night.
In a game that featured five lead changes, the Bruins rallied to beat the Flyers for their third straight victory. Boston is 7-1-3 in the last 11 games.
Brad Marchand tied it at 5 at 11:26 of the third and Kampfer gave the Bruins the lead for good when he slapped in a shot that went inside the right post past a stunned Brian Boucher. Gregory Campbell added an empty-net goal to cap the scoring.
After Mark Recchi and Michael Ryder gave Boston a 4-3 lead with goals in the first 1:48 of the third, Danny Briere and Sean O'Donnell scored in a 53-second span to give the Flyers a 5-4 lead with 12:19 left.
Recchi scored the fluke goal of the night 38 seconds into the third when he cleared the puck in from center ice and eventually tapped it in. The puck took a funny bounce off the boards and bounced right in front of the net while Boucher was attempting to play it.
Zdeno Chara and Patrice Bergeron added goals for Boston. Jeff Carter, Nikolay Zherdev and Scott Hartnell also scored for Philadelphia, which had its winning streak snapped at four.
Hartnell gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead when he batted a rebound out of the air past Bruins goalie Tim Thomas 3:34 into the game.
Hartnell's goal snapped a streak of 10 straight goals for Boston spanning the third period against Pittsburgh on Monday night when the Bruins scored four, and a 6-0 win over Ottawa on Tuesday night.
Chara capitalized on a two-man advantage for Boston to tie at 1 with 1:44 remaining in the first. Bergeron gave Boston the lead 45 seconds into the second period. Bergeron had a hat trick Tuesday and leads the Bruins with 33 points.
Zherdev and Carter scored for Philadelphia in the final 4:35 of the second to give the Flyers a 3-2 lead.
