Unlike most professional sports, there is a distinct strategic advantage to playing at home in the Stanley Cup playoffs and the Flyers plan on using it when they return to Philadelphia for Game 3 of their deadlocked first-round series against the Devils. The Devils knotted the series Friday night when Zach Parise led a relentless attack on the Flyers’ third defensive pair of 23-year-old defensemen Ryan Parent and Oskars Bartulis, finally banging home the winning goal with 4:04 to play. So, despite the fact Chris Pronger logged a game-high 27:26, Devils coach Jacques Lemaire was able to get his top line on the ice against the Flyers’ most inexperienced defense when it mattered most. “We don’t have the luxury of a last change,” Pronger said. “You’re going to get caught out there at times.

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