With the Providence Bruins up 2-0 in the second period of Saturday night’s Game 2, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms did what they had done all season, and what had led them to victory in Game 1 on Friday: score quickly to turn the game around. When Mark Friedman and Mike Vecchione found net 71 seconds apart to even the game up, the situation began to look like that of the previous night.
But Providence wasn’t going to let the comeback happen again. Peter Cehlarik bagged his first two career playoff goals — including the eventual game-winner halfway through the third on the power-play — and Austin Czarnik and Paul Postma each had two assists to lead Providence to a 5-3 victory in front of 4,583 at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, evening their first-round series with the Phantoms at one game apiece.