Come on people.

Enough of this pucking doom and gloom.

Yes, the Bruins have dropped three straight. Yes, there could be reason for panic at the rink.   

But it’s Game 7 and in the great tradition of one of the most repeated phrases in sports, anything can happen in Game 7, including the very real possibility that the Bruins could actually prevail Friday night.

How could that happen?

First, although the Flyers have bounced back from a 3-0 deficit in the series with three consecutive wins, that doesn’t necessarily mean such momentum carries into Game 7.

 “Each game really is separated, they proved that by coming out and winning Game 4 when we seemed to have all the momentum,” said Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference, a Game 7 participant on five prior occasions in his career. Only Mark Recchi (7 games) and Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger (6 games) will hit the ice Friday with more experience with the series on the line.

“In a Game 7 situation, everything resets,” Ference said.

Despite the Flyers current three-game winning streak, the series has been close throughout. Each team has won two games by a single goal. Although the Flyers victory in Game 5 was by a decisive 4-0 margin, the Bruins had a three-goal victory in Game 3.

The reality is that four of the six games between the teams have been decided by a single goal. As Mike Milbury told Dale & Holley on Thursday, picking a Game 7 winner could simply be like flipping a coin.  

Yet, the odds in a NHL Game 7 coin flip are not 50-50, they are actually tilted in favor of the home team which has won 60 percent (80 of 132) of the Game 7 contests in the NHL since the best-of-seven format was adopted in 1939.

While that trend has been bucked this year, with road teams going 3-0 in Game 7, road teams also have won more overall games (38) than home teams (35) this postseason. The Bruins have been a dramatic exception, going 5-1 at home in the playoffs, leaving the very real possibility they actually have a home ice advantage.

There has also been much emphasis on how the Bruins don’t want to become the just the third NHL team to squander a 3-0 series lead and lose a seven-game playoff series. But the fact is that there have been six teams to rally from a 3-0 deficit just like the Flyers to force a Game 7, yet on four of those six occasions the home team has still prevailed in the decisive seventh-game.

“If you have a Game 7 and you have a choice, you want it at home, we have that opportunity,” said Bruins coach Claude Julien after practice Thursday.

It’s also time to quit fawning over the exploits of Simon Gagne and how his presence in the Flyers lineup has tiled the great balance between the teams.

Yes, Gagne has scored three goals. But let’s look at them.

His first goal – the overtime winner in Game 4 – resulted from simply being parked unguarded along the crease where he deflected in a brilliant pass by Matt Carle.

Gagne’s second goal was a three-foot tap-in, again from just outside the crease during a Flyers power play. His third goal came on a breakaway after Bruins defenseman Dennis Wideman lost his stick and his mind in the same nanosecond.

Far from giving Bruin defenders fits with his dazzling puck skills, swift skating and laser-like shot, Gagne was simply at the right place at the right time to score three relatively easy goals. Sure there is something to be said for having game sense, but Gagne has hardly been a scoring threat whenever he hits the ice.

Likewise, just because the Bruins offense has been out of sorts for the past two games that doesn’t mean it will be the case in Game 7. Moving Blake Wheeler alongside Patrice Bergeron and Mark Recchi may pay dividends or the B’s could adjust to the Flyers shot blocking scheme, get more pucks to the net and start clicking again.

In 2001, the Colorado Avalanche raced out to a 3-1 series lead in the conference semifinals against Los Angeles. The Kings suddenly swung momentum, not only winning Game 5 and 6 but shutting out Colorado in both games to force Game 7.

Back in Denver for the decisive game, the Av’s offense got on track in a 5-1 win and a few weeks later Ray Bourque was hoisting the Stanley Cup.

Don’t assume what you have seen, is what you will see. Anything can happen in Game 7.

That means Shawn Thornton, who hasn’t scored since October 3, could suddenly net a key goal. Steve Begin could put a puck in off Chris Pronger’s butt. Michael Ryder could beat Michael Leighton on a penalty shot.

“I’d love to score, I’ve had so many chances,” said Thornton. “Our whole line, it would be really nice if the hockey gods smile upon us for our hard work and gave us one.”

Getting the hockey gods to commit to anything special can be difficult, but getting the TD Garden crowd behind the Bruins should not be.

This is it people. In the words of Jackson Browne, you got the power over what the Bruins do, you can sit there and wait or you can pull them through.

Yes, you can curse squandering a 3-0 lead in the series, you can lament the injury to David Krejci, you can try to distance yourself from a team that might be heading on the wrong side of history.

Or you can say it all begins fresh in Game 7. The Canadiens are waiting, it’s Friday night in Boston and we want more hockey. Get loud.

“When you get Game 7 at home, the one thing you want to do is get the crowd into it as soon as possible,” said Julien. “You get your seventh-game and what you call your seventh player - our fans - we need those guys behind us to give us a boost because they do help us out.”

It’s been 18 years since the Bruins played in the conference finals. Now would be a pretty good time for the B’s and their fans to change that.