BY MARK SPECTOR
sportsnet.ca

PHILADELPHIA — Brian Campbell has been through the league a few times. But he’ll never forget the touching father-son pair he saw one night here in Philadelphia.

“I saw a guy give me the finger in warmup, with his six-year-old son standing beside him. I found it funny,” said Campbell. “I’ve seen some stuff in here before that I’ve never seen in other places.”

The media is asking a lot of questions about how this Wachovia Center crowd will affect Game 3, but really, these players have played in front of raucous houses their entire careers. Is one Stanley Cup crowd really any different than another?

“To me, the most fun are the fans who are most creative,” said the Blackhawks’ Adam Burish. “When we were in Vancouver, they had signs with pictures of Kane and Madden in the limo. That was awesome. I don’t know how much they enjoyed it though.

The Hawks have won seven straight on the road. Perhaps the last think thing Flyers fans want to do is push their buttons — it hasn’t worked for anyone else.

“The last time we were here … there was some sign about Eager and some girl being pregnant,” he said. “It engages you a little bit. On the road, you want to shove it up their you-know-whats. You want to make them eat their words. You want them to boo you — it’s just as exciting as having the home crowd cheer you.”

Down And Out — Again

The Flyers have wrote the book on comebacks when they became only the third team in National Hockey League history to erase a 3-0 series deficit and defeat Boston.

So trailing 2-0 with a game at home tonight is nothing.

“When you experience something for the first time, sometimes you can be overwhelmed by it,” said Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette. “When you're down in the series or you're faced with goaltending injuries or you have to win in the shootout on the last day of the year, there's a lot of things that add up for this team that says they won't go away.

“We’ve been in a situation since Christmas where it's been time to pack it in. Everybody just go home. Call it a year. And yet we're still here,” he continued. “It's the beginning of June. We're pretty happy to be here, and the guys won't quit. They just won't.”

Talking A Good Game

Flyers winger Danny Carcillo wouldn’t mind a good scrap tonight. Because even a world class yapper like him is getting a bit tired of all the foreplay, without anything ever coming of it.

“I mean, that’s pretty much all anyone is going to do is talk. It gets pretty tiring after a while listening to it. You’ve got to block it out,” he said.

Funny, in Game 2 it looked like Carcillo who was doing all the talking.

Lap Dog

Ian Laperriere is a guy everyone is cheering for, and it’s not just because he came back from taking that shot in the face in Round 1, Game 5. He is a career good guy, well liked by virtually everyone he has come in contact with over a gritty, 16-year NHL career.

But he has been silent through two games of this series. Laperriere is one of a few Flyers who need to make their presence felt tonight.

“You don’t want to go down 3-0. We’ve been there before, but we want to be 2-1 after tonight,” said Laperriere. “I always can be more physical — I made a career out of it. The first game it wasn’t a physical game. It was more up and down, which isn’t my game. But I know I can be more physical.”