On to Philadelphia.

The Bruins lead the best-of-seven series against the Flyers, 2-0. Boston has never trailed, and have scored the first goal in both games at the TD Garden. They have played hard, they have played physical and have been provided an emotional lift with the return of center Marc Savard.

All in all, things are going well.

But don’t stamp your tickets to the Eastern Conference finals just yet — Flyers coach Peter Laviolette now has the advantage. His team is short-handed and he’s handcuffed when it comes to rolling out plausible scoring lines. But what blood he can squeeze from this stone, he will be able to do so at Philadelphia’s Wachovia Center for Games 3 and 4.

For Laviolette, it’s all about uncorking the scorers that are still available to him. Danny Briere and Mike Richards are the shakers that make the Philly cocktail and, sans Jeff Carter and Simon Gagne, are the two Laviolette has pushed the hardest. So far, they have come up big. Both have two goals and two assists (Richards a goal and two helpers in Game 1, then a goal in Game 2 while Briere has a strike and an assist in each) in the first two games. Combined, they are responsible for 66 percent of the Flyers goal output in the series.

The biggest problem that Laviolette has been having to open this series is that Bruins coach Claude Julien has had the last change and has been rolling towering defenseman Zdeno Chara and top center Patrice Bergeron out whenever Richards even smells the ice. Laviolette has tried double-shifting Richards, but Chara has been keyed on the opposing captain and will stay on the ice as long as the center is there.

There was an interesting moment in the first period of Game 2 when Chara looked like he was going to go for a change, saw Richards trot out to take a face off in the Flyers defensive zone, then turned around and stayed. It worked — Bergeron won the faceoff to Johnny Boychuk’s stick and Chara’s pair slammed it through traffic for the early lead.

At the Wachovia Center, that advantage switches to the Flyers. Laviolette will try to rip Richards away from his two black-and-gold shadows. While it is always important for an opposing coach to get his top scorer away from the reigning Norris Trophy winner Chara, getting Richards away from Bergeron will be especially pertinent as well.

Bergeron absolutely killed Richards in the face off circle in Game 2. That dominance led to goals for the Bruins and the ability to keep the puck in the Philadelphia zone. The Flyers were worn down to the point that, after two penalties in the third kept them on there heels, eventually could just not hold on any longer and Milan Lucic banged a puck home for the game-winner with less than three minutes left. Bergeron won 16 of 22 face offs all game while Richards was dismal at a 5-for-21 clip.

The change will also benefit Laviolette’s aggressive style and two-man forecheck. He will be able to pick and choose who and how he wants to attack the Bruins defense coming out of the zone. He had success in Game 2 against the Boston pair of Matt Hunwick and Dennis Wideman when Richards scored the first Philadelphia goal, and there is a more-than-likely chance that Briere and Ville Leino will be seeing a whole lot of the blue liners, especially when they are on the ice with the Boston fourth line of Vladimir Sobotka, Shawn Thornton and Steve Begin. Sobotka has been playing well for a good portion of the playoffs but going against the likes of Richards, Briere, Claude Giroux and is a distinct mismatch in favor of the Flyers.

Look for Laviolette to try and get Scott Hartnell more involved in the offense as well. The curly-haired forward is the quintessential complimentary player for a team that has a ton of scoring options, the way the Flyers do when Gagne and Carter are healthy. Hartnell now moves up from being a second-tier scorer to someone Philadelphia needs to have start chipping in if it has any hope of overwhelming the Bruins defense and getting to Tuukka Rask. Hartnell matches up well in front of the net against the Wideman/Hunwick pair because he is a big body who is much harder for the smaller defensemen to clear out.

For the Bruins the scheme is simple — continue to play in a controlled blaze. Yes, Laviolette has the last change, but that doesn’t mean Richards and Briere will be totally free to run loose. A change of venue will mean an uptick in some of the periphery numbers (face offs and time of puck possession) for the Flyers, and might prove the be the difference that Philadelphia needs to get Boston to cut itself on the razor wire it has been balancing on all postseason.

Yet, in retrospect to the frustration they faced all year, there is a certain charm to the Bruins right now. The bounces that did not go their way during the year are landing in the net during the playoffs (see: Lucic). There is full-effort full-time. They are playing some of their best hockey of the season and will not just acquiesce to the Flyers just because they have left the suddenly comfortable confines of TD Garden.

The Bruins have been a team of road warriors all season and all they need to do is win one of the next two games to send the series back to the Hub next Monday with a chance to close it out on Causeway Street.