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Biron made 36 saves in the game.
Ovechkin then stretched the Capitals' lead to 4-2. He one-timed a cross-ice pass from Brooks Laich past Biron before the goaltender could get across the crease.
Just like that, Ovechkin had put his postseason struggles behind him and put the Capitals one win away from advancing to the second round for the first time in a decade.
"Seventh game, it's just go," Boudreau said. "Their team and our team are going to be very tired. But I think you'll see character in the oodles."
The Flyers failed for the second time in three days to close out the series. "We got the start we wanted, we got the lead," Philadelphia Coach John Stevens said. "It's an opportunity that we have let slip away. We will find out what we are made of tomorrow."
There had been one constant in the first five games of the series: The team that scored first went on to win the game. But not Monday.
Richards scored at 3:49 on the power play first thanks to a fortunate bounce off the end boards to put the Flyers ahead 1-0.
The first period ended with Semin taking a retaliatory cross checking penalty on Lasse Kukkonen. The Flyers made him pay for that indiscretion at the start of the second.
Brière scored his sixth goal of the playoffs when he snapped a shot from the middle of the circle past Huet to put the Flyers ahead 2-0 at 1:18. Huet was screened by R.J. Umberger on the shot.
But the Flyers let up momentarily and the Capitals seized their chance.
Backstrom completed one of the team's prettiest scoring plays of the season at 9:34 to cut their deficit to 2-1. Laich (two assists) took the puck into the zone and dropped it for Semin, who dished the puck to Backstrom, who returned it to Semin, who gave it back to Backstrom, who ripped it past Biron.
All of a sudden, the Flyers were reeling and the Capitals were the aggressors.
Semin then picked a fine time to redeem himself for his penalty. Biron stopped Erskine's point shot, but was unable to squeeze the puck in his glove. When he dropped it, Semin snapped it in at 18:03 to send the game into the third period tied, setting up Ovechkin's heroics.
"I've said before that the guys who are stars, everything seems to happen around them," Boudreau said of Ovechkin. "Whether it's John Elway on the drive or a great baseball player coming up to bat in the last inning, that's Alex."
