Flyers eliminate Penguins with 5-1 win in Game 6 Claude Giroux wrapped up a dominant series with his sixth goal, Ilya Bryzgalov had his first outstanding effort in net and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 5-1, on Sunday to win their Eastern Conference first-round series in six games. Giroux scored 32 seconds into the game, and the host Flyers rolled from there. In a series where no lead was safe, the Flyers scored the first three goals and made it stand behind stout defense and stellar play from Bryzgalov. Bryzgalov gave up 20 goals in the first five games. He settled down in Game 6 and gave up only Evgeni Malkin's goal in the second period. The Flyers had stormed out to a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series before the Penguins won two straight. A day before Game 6, Flyers forward Scott Hartnell called out his defense and Bryzgalov and said it was their turn to win a game. They delivered. Bryzgalov was at last the shutdown goalie the Flyers expected when they gave him $51 million to steady one of Philadelphia's weak links. He outplayed Marc-Andre Fleury and helped the Flyers advance to the conference semifinals for the third straight season. Fleury had seemingly pulled together after some awful efforts in Games 2 and 3. He steadied the Penguins in a Game 5 victory and had the Penguins feeling confident about sending the series back to Pittsburgh for Game 7. So much for that. Moments after Giroux leveled Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, he took the loose puck and fired from the circle for a 1-0 lead. He gestured toward the crowd and slammed the glass in celebration, firing up 20,000 fans who hadn't had much to cheer about the last two games. It was Philadelphia's first even-strength goal since Giroux scored one 27 seconds into the third period of Game 3. The team that scored first had lost the first five games of the series. For once, the Flyers piled on. The Flyers made it 2-0 on the second bad goal given up by Fleury. He had seemingly stopped the puck and had it covered it up, but Hartnell poked it free and jammed it into the net for Philadelphia's 12th power-play goal of the series. Boston 4, at Washington 3 (OT): Tyler Seguin scored at 3:17 of overtime, Tim Thomas made 36 saves, and the Bruins evened the first-round Eastern Conference series at three games apiece. Boston, the defending Stanley Cup champion, never trailed but needed a stolen pass and a deft bit of skating to finally get the decisive goal and avoid being eliminated by seventh-seeded Washington. Game 7 is Wednesday night in Boston. In overtime, David Krejci intercepted a pass by Nicklas Backstrom and sent the puck to Milan Lucic, who passed ahead to Seguin. Seguin, who entered the game without a point in the series, veered slightly to his right to draw goaltender Braden Holtby from the net, then lifted a shot past the rookie to win it. That kept alive Boston's bid to become the first team to win the Stanley Cup in successive years since the Detroit Red Wings in 1997-98. The Bruins took a 3-2 lead at 11:51 of the third period on a goal by Andrew Ference, who put in the long rebound of a shot by Seguin. But Washington wasn't done. Off a faceoff in the Boston zone, Alex Ovechkin controlled the puck with his left skate and promptly ripped a shot that skidded between Thomas' legs with 4:52 left in regulation.