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Ilya Bryzgalov finally played well enough to steal a playoff game Tuesday night. It's not his fault if his teammates insisted on returning it to its rightful owners.
Through two periods, Bryzgalov was magnificent - Zorro with his stick, Jimmy Rollins with his glove, Baryshnikov in the elegance of his movements. He was Roy Halladay, giving his offensively challenged team every chance to win.
But Halladay can't pitch a perfect game every start, and Bryzgalov plainly is not going to pitch many for these Flyers. They were dreadful in front of him. Slow. Sloppy with the puck. Pretty much the exact opposite of the way they played in five of six games against Pittsburgh and most of Game 1 against the New Jersey Devils.
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