Tocchet Takes Over

New Jersey
Devils

"Whether we win or not, this team is special, I don't care what happens from here on out," Tocchet said.

The Flyers were dead in the water, trailing 3-1 in the second period and the Devils were looking to take a two-game lead. Then everything changed.

Eric Desjardins scored on a pass from Tocchet with just 39 seconds left in the period to cut New Jersey's lead in one. Then Tocchet and Daymond Langkow each scored in 52-second span during the first two minutes of the third period to explode the sell-out crowd.

"If we go in 3-1 after that period, it gets a little ugly. You're dejected because you had a bad period," Tocchet said. "You make it 3-2 and all of a sudden you think, 'Hey, man, we've got life.' That was a key goal, getting that one."

Langkow suffered a knee injury in the final period and did not return on the ice, his condition was not immediately known. It would be a big blow to the Flyers, should he miss Game 3 on Thursday as the series shifts to New Jersey.

"For about a five-minute segment we lost or composure and played Flyers hockey instead of Devils hockey, pushing and shoving, gloves in the face," Devils coach Larry Robinson said. "You know they feed off that stuff and that's not our style."

"They came out storming like we expected them to after they got the late goal in the second, and we couldn't recover," Martin Brodeur said. "We lost the game in about a three-minute span."