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For all of you coaches out there, take your pick: 1) It takes desperate hockey to win in the playoffs. 2) The best team usually wins. 3) If you're going to go anywhere, you've got to have a little luck on your side. They're all cliches, but only one of them really applied to the Philadelphia Flyers in game four, a must-win. Luck was on their side, because they got a whole lot of it. For the first two periods, the Flyers played like their season was on the line—which it was. They played physically without recklessly crossing the threshold—which they had to. They also got some scoring help for Brian Boucher—which he deserved. But then Michael Ryder struck—or at least half of his stick did—and the Flyers started to sputter. Was the goal bad? It sure was. The firs ...

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