“I try not to think about last year, but it’s in the back of my head,” Krejci said after this year’s Bruins took a 1-0 series lead on the Flyers. “You don’t forget these things.”And just to make sure, the Flyers reminded Krejci all about the injury on the ice yesterday, presumably prada handbags 2011threatening to send him to the hospital again.“There was the yapping back and forward,” Krejci said. “They kind of let me know.”Who could blame them? The Flyers know if Krejci keeps playing as he did yesterday, they’ll have a problem. It’d be hard to imagine a better start for the player or his team.“We talked about how it would be nice to get the first win and start on the right foot in the series,” Krejci said. “We did a pretty good job.”“Most of their lines had success against us,” Laviolette said.But clearly, it was Krejci who owned this game, starting just 1:52 in, when he jumped in front of the Flyers net to backhand a Nathan Horton rebound past shop online 2011goalie Brian Boucher to quickly get his team going. In the second period, Krejci’s deflection of defenseman Adam McQuaid’s point shot past Boucher made it a 4-1 game and made a comeback by the home team pretty unlikely.It was a quite a turnaround for the 25-year-old Krejci, who was mostly contained by the Montreal Canadiens in the first-round series, producing one goal and no assists in the seven games. Aside from the obvious contributions of Horton (two overtime winners), the B’s top line didn’t play great against the Canadiens. But coach Claude Julien saw good reasons for the line’s struggles.In case the Philadelphia Flyers didn’t already know it, they learned yesterday just how lucky they were a year ago when Bruins [team stats] center David Krejci found himself in an ambulance, heading to Baltimore for urgent, season-ending wrist surgery.The dislocated wrist Krejci suffered in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference second-round playoff series cost the B’s their best offensive threat, and was probably the decisive factor in their inability to close out a series they led 3-0.“Montreal really paid a lot of attention to (Krejci’s) line,” said Julien. “They really had some hard matchups against them. Montreal is a great defensive team. That’s their strength, and they put their best players against that line. It made it tough for them.”Krejci knew there was room for improvement.“I know I didn’t produce that much (vs. Montreal), but I still thought our line played pretty well. We had so many good coach outlet storechances. We just couldn’t bury them. That sometimes happens. The season is about ups and downs. It was a tough series for us, but we bounced back and had a good day (yesterday).”Krejci said he has tried not to think too much about the way his — and his team’s — season ended last year. But that wasn’t always easy.Anyone who might have disputed that Krejci’s exit led directly to Philly’s miracle comeback would have a tough time arguing the point after the crafty center produced two goals and two assists in the Bruins’ dominant 7-3 victory yesterday over the Flyers in Game 1 of this year’s second round.Philadelphia coach Peter Laviolette was asked about Krejci’s great game, but went in a different direction.
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