Murray scores game-winner in third

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Patrice Bergeron gave the Boston Bruins a

huge lift with a pretty goal.

The Boston rookie scored an unassisted goal late in the second

period in the Bruins' 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on

Thursday night.

Bergeron, who also had an assist, snapped a 2-2 tie when he

picked up the puck in his defensive zone, skated untouched to the

right circle, and fired a wrist shot high over goalie Sean Burke's

outstretched glove.

"That's not always my type of goal," Bergeron said. "I'm more

the type of guy that's going to pick up a rebound. I try to be at

the right spot in front of the net. But this goal was just on

transition. I'm pretty happy it went in."

Hal Gill, Rob Zamuner, and Glen Murray also scored to help the

Bruins move into a second-place tie with Ottawa in the Northeast

Division.

"Berge is very poised beyond his years," veteran Bruins center

Brian Rolston said about the 18-year-old Bergeron. "To be as aware

as he is in the defensive zone as well as in the offensive zone --

he plays the whole game. He's got tremendous patience and just

waited the goalie out."

John LeClair scored twice and Simon Gagne added a goal for the

Flyers, who dropped their third straight game, the team's longest

losing streak since losing four straight from Jan. 8-13.

"I think it was evident tonight that we sat back and waited for

things to happen," LeClair said. "We reacted instead of making it

happen."

Before the game, the Flyers acquired center Alexei Zhamnov and a

fourth-round pick in the June draft from the Chicago Blackhawks for

defenseman Jim Vandermeer, the rights to unsigned draft choice

Colin Fraser, and a second-round pick.

The teams traded bad goals in a 15-second span early in the

first period, then traded a pair of shaky rebound goals later in

the period.

"We didn't have the start that we wanted to," Boston coach

Mike Sullivan said. "But I thought we certainly wanted to put the

puck on the net as often as we could."

At 4:01, Gill threw the puck toward the net from the boards. The

puck kicked off Philadelphia defenseman Marcus Ragnarsson's skate

and bounced off Burke's glove into the goal.

Gagne made it 1-1 at 4:16 when he beat Boston goalie Felix

Potvin high to the glove side with a wrist shot.

Zamuner put the Bruins ahead at 10:37 when he hammered in a

rebound of a shot by Brian Rolston. LeClair tied in at 15:36 when

he flicked in a shot by Kim Johnsson that Potvin failed to cover.

"I thought we outplayed them in the first period," Flyers

coach Ken Hitchcock said. "Then they outplayed us. We turned it

over and made the mistake and it (Bergeron's goal) ended up in our

net."

Murray scored a power play goal on a rebound 31 seconds into the

third period, and LeClair cut it to 4-3 at 15:23.Game notes
Boston played the sixth game of a seven-game road trip, its

longest of the season. The Bruins are 4-0-0-2 and wrap up the trip

at Carolina on Saturday. ... Gill's goal was his first in 24 games

and only his second of the season. ... The Bruins haven't lost in

regulation since being beaten by Florida on Jan. 24. They are

8-0-1-2 since then.