Devils drop Flyers, tie series at 1-1
PHILADELPHIA — No Ilya Kovalchuk, no problem for New Jersey.
With the injured Devils forward out for Game 2, Adam Larsson traded his seat in the rafters for an up-close look at postseason play.
He might get to stick around.
Larsson scored the first playoff goal of his career off a wrist shot in the third, igniting a four-goal outburst in the period that rallied the Devils to a 4-1 win over Philadelphia on Tuesday night and tied the best-of-seven series at 1-1.
“I’m not a goal scorer so I was happy for that,” he said. “I was happy for that and I think you can see that we get everybody going after that. We score two, three, four there, so it was very important.”
Larsson and Clarkson scored consecutive goals in the third period to rally the Devils past the Flyers and make up for the absence of Kovalchuk.
