Krejci/By S. Bradley

PHILADELPHIA – Bruins center David Krejci is as skilled at forgetting the past as he is at finding the open man.

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Boucher/By S. Bradley

PHILADELPHIA — The best news to come out of the Bruins’ 7-3 win in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Flyers today might’ve come out of the postgame interview period.

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Thomas/By S. Bradley

PHILADELPHIA — The final score of 7-3 might lead you to believe that Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas hardly had to sweat in his team’s Game 1 win in the Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Flyers at the Wells Fargo Center tonight.

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Paille/By S. Bradley

PHILADELPHIA — It didn’t take long for Philadelphia defenseman Chris Pronger to get irritated with the Bruins.

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Krejci/By S. Bradley

PHILADELPHIA — Here we go again.

The Bruins are ahead of the Philadelphia Flyers in a playoff series.

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PHILADELPHIA — The three Bruins players made available to the media this afternoon pregame and head coach Claude Julien all answered questions about Tim Thomas by noting that Tuukka Rask is also a great goaltender.

Despite the verbal bouquets, however, Rask is still just a great back-up goaltender, for now.

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Marchand/By S. Bradley

PHILADELPHIA — The Bruins’ upcoming Eastern Conference semifinal series with Philadelphia, which starts this afternoon, could play to Brad Marchand’s strengths.

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Boucher/By S. Bradley

Philadelphia goaltender Brian Boucher was asked yesterday if he’s the Rodney Dangerfield of hockey.

“Yeah I guess if you want to say that, you can say that,” said the veteran.

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Ferriero

Last night Benn Ferriero probably figured the best thing he’d get on his 24th birthday was the opportunity to play in his first Stanley Cup playoff game.

Little did the San Jose forward know the night would end with something much better on his stat line than a game played.

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Lucic has to come alive/By S. Bradley

I’ve been singing the praises of Philadelphia’s team since almost the start of this season.

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Thomas will be key/By S. Bradley

When the Bruins and Montreal went to seven games in the first round of this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs, there was a feeling that Boston’s run couldn’t end right there.

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Briere brings intangibles/By S. Bradley

Philadelphia was atop the Eastern Conference for most of the regular season until a late-season slide allowed Washington to take over the No. 1 seed in time for the playoffs and opened the door for Pittsburgh to make a failed surge toward first in the Atlantic Division.

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Pronger/By S. Bradley

Philadelphia head coach Peter Laviolette sounds like a man impressed by the Bruins’ ability to win a first-round series in seven games without scoring on the power play.

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Krejci/By S. Bradley

BOSTON – You might be able to hop on one leg across I-93 and survive, but if you attempted that act a second time you’re probably ticketed for the loony bid if you’re not flattened by a semi first.

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Campbell/By S. Bradley

BOSTON – Daniel Briere might think his Philadelphia team is in the Bruins’ heads because of the historic comeback the Flyers made last season from 0-3 down in the second round of the playoffs.

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