FLYERS shout out Sens 2-0 to even series 1-1.
OTTAWA (AP) -- The Philadelphia Flyers are tied with the Ottawa Senators in their second-round playoff series because of Roman Chechmanek and a newspaper clip.
Cechmanek stopped 33 shots for his second career playoff shutout and the Flyers beat the Senators 2-0 Sunday night to even the series.
He made up for his dismal performance in Friday's series opener by posting his first shutout in these playoffs. Simon Gagne and Mark Recchi scored for the Flyers, who tied the best-of-seven series 1-1.
"We were ready for tonight's game,'' Cechmanek said. "Maybe I was too emotional the first game. I have to play like in the regular season.''
Philadelphia was also inspired by an article in a local paper that said the Flyers were done if they lost Game 2. Flyers center Jeremy Roenick cut the story out and showed it around at Sunday's morning skate.
"It fired all of us up,'' he said. "Ottawa can thank the media for being a bunch of idiots. It was a smack in the face, and our guys didn't like that too much.''
Flyers coach Ken Hitchcock was critical of Cechmanek after the goalie stopped just 13 of 17 shots in Philadelphia's 4-2 loss in Game 1. He still wasn't pleased after this victory.
"I didn't think we played very well,'' Hitchcock said. "I thought we played better in the first game. I don't think we played well until we got mad.''
Game 3 is Tuesday night in Philadelphia.
Gagne scored early in the first period and Recchi added another late in the game against Patrick Lalime who made with 21 saves.
WILD even it up
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Sergei Zholtok and Wes Walz scored just over a minute apart early in the third period as the Minnesota Wild beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Sunday night to even their second-round series.
Marian Gaborik added a goal and an assist, and Pascal Dupuis had two assists for the Wild, who return home for Game 3 on Tuesday and Game 4 on Friday. Vancouver won the opener 4-3 in overtime last Friday.
After the Canucks staged a furious flurry in the closing seconds, for the second straight game, tempers flared after the buzzer and several fights broke out near the benches. Five players were given misconducts, including a game misconduct handed out to Wild defenseman Willie Mitchell. He had been sent off for roughing seven seconds earlier and came back out onto the ice.
The Canucks, who rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the third period in Game 1, pulled goalie Dan Cloutier with two minutes left. They got within a goal when Mattias Ohlund scored at 18:28.
Trent Klatt almost tied it on a scramble with 54.7 seconds left, but Wild defenseman Willie Mitchell closed his hand on the puck in the crease. The infraction went undetected, and a video review showed that the puck never crossed the line.
Ed Jovanovski also scored for the Canucks, who lost for the first time in five games.
Zholtok broke a 1-1 tie at 1:02 of the third, just seconds after a Vancouver penalty for too many men on the ice expired. He cut down the middle untouched and one-timed Andrew Brunette's pass from behind the net past Cloutier.
Walz, who scored twice in the third period of Game 1, made it 3-1 just 1:03 later. He fought off Markus Naslund's soft check and tapped in Gaborik's cross-ice feed on the other side of a sprawling Cloutier.
Dwayne Roloson, out since Game 4 of the first round because of a groin injury, replaced Manny Fernandez in the Wild net and made 30 saves.
Fernandez had better playoff numbers after backstopping the final three first-round wins over Colorado, but Roloson was 2-0-1 against Vancouver this season and 6-2-2 in his career.
Roloson was especially sharp in the first, stopping Matt Cooke on a partial breakaway, and robbing Markus Naslund and Artem Chubarov from close range in the last five minutes of the period.
Cloutier made just 15 saves.
Gaborik opened the scoring on Minnesota's first shot of the second period the Canucks had a couple of good chances to clear the puck. Dupuis got the puck along the boards and fed Gaborik in the left circle for a one-timer that beat Cloutier high on the glove side.
Jovanovski's fourth goal of the playoffs tied it with 2:42 left in the second period after Trevor Linden spotted him trailing unchecked on a three-on-two rush. Jovanovski walked in alone and beat Roloson low on the stick side.
Both teams finished 0-for-3 on the power play.
