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Boston Bruins' Patrice Bergeron, lies on the ice after being hit by Philadelphia Flyers' Randy Jones as Flyers goalie Martin Biron stands near by. Bergeron broke his nose and had a concussion from the hit.

Biron faced 32 shots over the final two periods, raising his record to 7-2.

“The first period was where we wanted to come out strong and we did,” said Biron. “Even though we had only four shots, we had a few scoring chances and limited their scoring chances to the outside and gave us the rhythm that we wanted for the game.”

Richards assisted on Joffrey Lupol’s power goal at the 13-minute mark of the second period as the Bruins lost for the second time in their last seven games and fell to 3-1 at home.

Sturm gave the Bruins a 1-0 lead in the second period with his fourth goal of the year.

Later in the second, Zdeno Chara failed to stop a pass at the point on a power play. The puck hopped over his stick and Richards picked it up on the fly. He slid a back-hander through the pads of Tim Thomas at the 9:36 mark for his sixth goal of the season, his second short-handed score.

The Bruins were called for too many men on the ice with 7:25 remaining in the second, and Lupol’s fourth goal of the season came off a pass from Daniel Briere.

Thomas, who has allowed just eight goals in six starts, fell to 4-2.

Kessel was awarded a penalty shot when Philadelphia defenseman Kimmo Timonen was judged to have thrown his stick as he dove to try to stop Kessel’s shot. Kessel’s penalty shot then went off Biron’s upper arm.

“I thought our guys battled hard. I thought we probably deserved better,” Julien said.

Notes: Flyers winger Simon Gagne missed his second straight game with dizziness. ... The short-handed goal was the ninth of Richards’ career. ... The Bruins pushed the game time up three hours, to 4:00, to allow local fans to watch Game 3 of the World Series on television. ... A large contingent of Flyers fans roared every time their team scored. ... Bruins rookie Milan Lucic played his 10th game, after the team had announced Friday he would be staying with the Bruins and not returning to his junior team in Vancouver. He had his fourth fight in 10 games.

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