Montreal Canadiens vs. Philadelphia Flyers

Musings and In-Game Scribbles

My English is as good as yours, I just write these in a stream-of-consciousness mode that I insist excuses me from small things like rules of grammar or general etiquette. Let’s call it conversational English, hopped up on beans. You know what kind of beans (no, Carl Mellesmoen, not the magic ones).

Montreal Canadiens (12-11-7) host Philadelphia Flyers (19-7-3)

Tuesday, December 15th, 2011

Game Thirty-Two (score posted following scribbles)

Missed it? Musings capture the game in writing. A written transcript typed during the game, posted and edited about thirty minutes afterward.  Based on the RDS French telecast of the Montreal Canadiens game, Musings take about 23 minutes to read. More detailed than an article, fresher than a looping highlight and good with morning coffee. Or late-night chocolate.  A unique way to re-experience the game.

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Fourth-line Montreal centre and 11-12 newcomer Petteri Nokelainen is asked before the game whether he should shoot more.  He surprises me when he says yes. I thought he might mention working within the system and so forth. Nokelainen’s off-the-bench howitzer was the game-winner in Tuesday’s game against New York Islanders.  A thing of power and precision.

Nokelainen’s 19 shots are the lowest of all regular Montreal forwards.  Only Louis Leblanc, Aaron Palushaj, Mike Blunden, Frederic St. Denis, Chris Campoli and Andreas Engqvist have less.  Each of those has played less than half the team’s games this season.

Burly Montreal power forward Erik Cole doesn’t just remind me of talented former Canadien Alexei Kovalev in posture but something about his face reminds me of the Togliatti Tank.  Uh, ok, I’ll stop.

The rugged Travis Moen is out tonight.  Blunden has been called up from Hamilton.

Alain Crete, Benoit Brunet and Guy Carbonneau greet us with charcoal suit jackets.  Crete’s hair has a Walken flourish to it.

We are spared the anthem.  Again.  Merci.

Price is the goalie for Montreal.  L’Ecuyer and Chris Lee are the refs.  Frederick.

Bob for Philly.  Sergei Bobrovsky. Their magnificent young keeper.  Minder.  Guardian?

First Period

Jaromir Jagr line versus Lars Eller’s to start.

Flyers float in along the right side.  Small dump is cleared out.

Josh Gorges and Subban low. Mathieu Darche’s outlet pass is into Flyer sticks outside the Montreal blue.

Flyers retrieve the mild puck into their own zone.

Cole down the right side.  Desharnais follows, bumps a man against the boards and recovering the disc, passes to the right point.

Careful pace from both.

Flyers’ Maxime Talbot carries with company and left-rights before firing a long one into Price’s pads.  Low wrister.  The goalie holds it for the faceoff to his right.

Tomas Plekanec against Harry Zolnierczyk.  Flyers win it.

Cammalleri, called out recently by Martin for the spots he needs to choose in his goal-scoring quest, has it on the left hash, low.

Dangerous puck to the net on Price.  Campoli deflected it into his goalie.  Handled it.

Moments later Kevin Marshall is called for slashing.  Whacked Eller twice.  Legit call.  On the low hash to Bob’s right.

Montreal man-advantage.

Flyers are in first place in the conference but don’t have across-the-board dominance in their numbers.  They’re scoring more than any other team in the NHL at 3.66 per game and they’re doing most things well.  But none of the units are dominant.  None of the facets.

First segment is almost vaguely well-defended by Flyers.

Plekanec line is the second wave.  Kostitsyn wins a puck battle on the left hash.  Passed across but a turnover forces Montreal to retrieve.

Twenty seconds.

Campoli fires it in long.

Weber on the left point.  To Cammalleri on the low circle.  In his spot. His response pass across to Kostitsyn is too far.

Flyers shaped the lanes and the penalty ends.

Pacioretty with a rush on the left.  Between two and he has to lean forward.  Can’t maintain.

Eller in the right corner.  Loses it to his coverage.

Has it again on the edge of Flyer ice.  Right side pass and a long shot is wide.

Subban has advanced.  Tries a move and pass from the low circle.

Flyers go to a power-play.

The hard-working and intelligent Mathieu Darche takes Moen’s place on the first unit.

Price makes a save on a teen circle shot by Hartnell.  Falls forwards with his knees as balance points and scoops it to his body.

Canadiens clear it out following the faceoff.  One entry.  Flyers are turned away.

Penalty is over.

Eight and a half.

Around the Montreal net. One pass.  One shot.  One goal.

Talbot.

One-timer from Voracek from under the end-line, backhanded.  Through Price.

Talbot stays and wins the faceoff.

Philadelphia 1, Montreal 0

Kaberle is called for interference.

Five Art Ross trophies.  Jagr.  He’s on the ice now.  Art Ross is awarded to the player that records the most points in a season (goals and assists).  Jagr was named the greatest player in the game by Wayne Gretzky on the day of the latter’s retirement in a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins.  Lemieux wasn’t back yet.  And Kariya hadn’t panned out.

Flyers control.  Jagr on the right hash, turning and searching. Long cross-ice pass misses everything.

Back to Jagr on the ci9rcle.  He falls as two collide with him.

Kept in.

Jagr again.  Right hash.  Shot.  Gorges blocks it.

Eller lofts the rebound into the Flyer zone.

Lines change.

Flyers.  Simmonds.  Perfect pass to him.  Turned and shot.  Didn’t look.  Kept it low.  A sweep shot.  Long carry along the ice and a wrister.  Price makes what Houde calls a superb save.

Randy Ladouceur is interviewed by Marc Denis at courtside.  More rubber at the net.

Shoo-oooooot.

Shooooooooooooooooooooooo-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot.

Five oh nine.

Talbot’s acquisition was complimented by Houde.  Holmgren plaudit.  The skilled centre is not a point-getter but is in his most productive campaign with 14 points in 29 games with the Flyers.  The former Penguin is solid defensive player but has some smoothness.

Eller deep left.

One nice move and turn and thrust, he fires a backhand pass (no-looker) through the slot.  No sticks replay.

Plekanec line.

Time to put some pressure.

But the puck is lost going around the net and Gorges has to carry it out in front of Jagr from under the Montreal end line.

Hartnell with a nifty steal under the Flyer end line but Marc-Andre Bourdon is called for slashing and the Canadiens go to the man-advantage.

Desharnais, Cole and Pacioretty are the first wave.  One clear, Talbot involved and on the re-entry, Voracek  trips Pacioretty on a right-side entry and it’s called.

Five on three.

Flyers win it.  But he puck chase is Montreal’s

Subban with a one-timer.  Rebound is scooped, passed and shot.  Save.

Subban keeps a puck in after a board shot that hit a Montreal forward.  Some pain is noted by Houde.

Kaberle.  Cammalleri.  Across for Subban.  Fired.  Rebound.  And a goal.  Or no.  Ref signals it off.

Cole was in the crease.  And he bumped the goalie.  Not much of a bump.  Very strict call.  Martin doesn’t like it.  No penalty.  Booing.  Houde reminds us that the goal can be waved off without a penalty.

More five on three.  Thirty seconds of it. Left.

Cammalleri with the uncle drive.  One knee low and the full follow-through.  Like contact golf.

No.  Rebound.  Missed by Plekanec.

Flyers’ Coburn is called.  Delayed call.  More pressure.

Cole was cross-checked to prevent the goal.  Fair move by Coburn. Stopped a goal.

Martin and Ladouceur both talk during the timeout.

Montreal called it.

Crowd glance.  Two kids jump with joy.  One has a giant finger glove.  You know the kind.  The other has a white hand-made sign.  Both are wearing jerseys.  Are they official?

Cammalleri with a small shot from the low circle.  Rebound pops up.  No.

Bob stuffs the puck in the crease.

Gets some help from Talbot.

Five on four.  Ninety seconds.  And about thirty in the period.

One long shot.  Into legs.

And shot down.

Habs struggle to set up and the period ends with booing and the Habs chasing the puck behind their net

Shots on goal favoured Montreal 12-9.

First Intermission
Philadelphia 1, Montreal 0

Chronique A La Une.  But no Francois.  Pronger talk.  Is this the end, Alain asks.  He’s 37, he’s played a lot of hockey, all-star games, Olympics and so on.  Carbonneau responds. Pronger still wants a Cup.

Certain guys can’t win em, boy.  Thornton comes to mind.  Marino in the NFL.  You have to be liked by your teammates.  Loved.  I’m sure there are exceptions.  But.  It matters.  Kerwin Bell.  Not an exception.

Flyers’ little play-maker Daniel Briere was on Antechambre last night and said that he’s glad to see Brendan Shanahan’s hands-on approach to the injuries and to address player safety through his tough stance on league violence.

Carbonneau says that, overall, Shanahan is doing a good job.

Carbonneau then drops a small, casual, honest bomb saying that Boston is one of the more powerful teams in the league and the same with Philadelphia. He means politically and he’s referring to some of the lighter treatment afforded Bruin culpables.

No argument.  Not here and not from Alain or Brunet.

Second Period
Philadelphia 1, Montreal 0

Houde confirms the rule that disallowed the goal.

Or the rule that allowed the goal to be disallowed.

Montreal resumes their power-play.  One minute.

Cleared into Montreal ice.

Desharnais is in.  Works it.  Pacioretty supports but is quickly in chase mode and the puck is cleared.

Kaberle’s pass to Subban is in traffic and the Canadiens reset.

Kaberle fires it in.  Rounds the boards.  And it’s out again.

It’s a long season.

Campoli is being checked by always calm Montreal trainer Graham Rynbend.  Takes a seat.  Little red bump on the left of his mouth.  Says he’s ok.  Maintains the tough demeanour as he frowns across the ice.

Kostitsyn. Covered.  Gets the backhand pass across.  Plekanec can’t convert.

Kostitsyn is knocked over by Bourdon.  NO booing.  But a decent reaction to the dumping.  Lines change.

Mid-ice.  Hartnell.  Emelin.  Emelin bumps Hartnell off the puck and the Saskatchewan native takes his seat on the bench a moment later.

Jagr.  Right side.  Advances.  Puck is taken from him.
Whistle.

Penalty.  Louis Leblanc.  Held Jagr’s stick.  Legit.

Can’t do that, says Denis.  Houde chuckles.

Flyer power.

Their 20.8 rate ranks them in the top ten.

Price’s mask is knocked off by Jakub Voracek as he crossed the crease.  Price is non-plussed.

Stoppage.

Flyers hang onto it on the boards.

Jagr is the quarterback.  He, like Kovalev, likes the phone booth area at the right hash.

Jagr’s ability is still there, the great hands and vision, the smooth follow-through and the dangerous shot selection. Only the burst and the fifth gear are gone.

He’s still very capable.  He is third in scoring for Philadelphia.  And this season he feels joy.  Great addition for Flyers.

Montreal begins to assert their penalty-kill prowess.  Flyers second segment is pass-less, shot-less.  Penalty ends and the Canadiens have some momentum.  Desharnais from behind.  Around.  Big crowd. He stays out of reach.  Curls.  Keeps, keeps. Fires.  Bob is down.  The puck is up.

And in.

Train horn.

Real eighties mess in the net.

Montreal 1, Philadelphia 1

Another assist for Kaberle intones Houde.  It’s continuing for Kaberle since coming to Montreal.  Fair enough.

Flyers entry.  Ugly.  Two to the net. A shot.  A jam.  And it’s in, somehow.

Price looks young in his mask after this one.

Zolnierczyk fell and jammed it like an X-Box player.  And he invokes a god or three with a glove up and shaking to the sky.  Mouth open.  His second of the season.  Price loped left and missed the disc almost entirely.

Philadelphia 2, Montreal 1

It was an immediate response, on the following sequence after the Montreal goal.

Flyer control.  One long shot.  A second.

The culture change will be complete once Pronger is gone.  Sure, Hartnell will be there but he won’t have an axel nor an engine.  His game will change.

The power-play used to be so dangerous.  And now.

We wait.

Stoppage.

Hooking.  Sean Couturier.  He rues his fate.
Martin stretches an arm across the back ledge behind the bench.  His jacket is fully unbuttoned.

Montreal attack a cinq.

Kaberle with a long shot wide of the net.

Now Kaberle retrieves.  He’s fit in without a lump in the Hab blanket.

Across.  Blast low, Subban.  Bob has it.

Cammalleri exclaims after the stoppage.

Dang.

Crease lick.  Says fuck me on the bench and Ladouceur leans down to share a hockey word or two.

Cammalleri is going into listening mode in more ways than one.  He’ll grow from it all.

I assume.  I hope.

Naïve hockey assumptions.  We’ll indulge in them.

Bob falls on a puck and Cole can’t get it.  Nor Pacioretty.  Some aggressive stick on stick work from a Flyer follows.

Faceoff.  Cleared.

Weber carries and chooses to keep nearly all the way to the Flyer blue.  Wrists it down.  He’s more comfortable in his role.  Don’t expect St. Denis back any time soon.

Another stoppage.  Eller is frustrated, annoyed and incredulous at the same time.  I think he expected more from himself on the last play.

Another stoppage.

Eller stays on.  Moved to the wing.  Nokelainen is asked to leave the dot and Eller wins it.  But loses control as he moved forward from the dot and was the only Hab in the zone for a moment.  Flyers set up.  We’re at fives again.  Ten in the period.

Flyers fork to the net.  Spit and flame.  But the oven is cool and Price is on knees, jerked back but at the ready.

Montreal entry.  Cammalleri nearly deposits one going to the crease.  He’s on knees and Bob has it.  Hash pass.  Cammalleri is going to the net more.  He’s shorter but it might work.  Never stopped Koivu.  Nor Gionta.  Nor Desharnais.

Why not Mike.

Cammalleri slid in on his knees and nearly witch-ladled it in.  Bob picked it up from his side, on his knees, scooping marbles.

Can Cammalleri work as hard as Plekanec?  Should he, this line will be a problem for the conference.

Puck slides into the crease.  Price is low.  Has support.  And it’s moved, passed and then out.

Carey-Carey chant.

Eight minutes.

Marshall is too casual and Cole takes it from him.  Nearly.  Then it’s around the boards the other way and Cole knocks Marshall off-balance, again.

They keep it in.  Cole show us how it’s done.  He’s an every shift every man.

Diagonal brute standing or leaning lightning, Cole has it all.

Puck is to Bob and he clams it.

Briere is back on.  Wins the draw easily against Leblanc.

Around the net.  Kept in.  Suddenly to the net.  And Leblanc is there.  His first.  No mistake.  Whack.  Tries to stay contained.  Keeps his head down.  It means so much to him.

Too concerned about appearances.

Houde exults.

So does the crowd.

Montreal 2, Philadelphia 2

An ovation.

Standing ovation.

Doesn’t take much these days.  We’re in danger of following the Leaf road.

He’s French.  He’s a first-rounder.  He’s a forward.

Just play the game.  And, you all, just watch.  Homerism.  Bah.

Under six.

Cole.  Right side.  Nearly draws a penalty driving to the net.  Falls.  No whistle.

Says “no”?  With a small smile for the ref.  Adjusts his hat.  He’ll be back again.  Sometimes it’s the timing.

Cole just goes.

What a great hockey player.

He’s from Oswego, New York.

And he’s 33.  We’ll be keeping him.

As for the cowboys, only Gionta interests me now.

I watch Leblanc as he’s shown on the bench. Different expression.  A new one.  I think of his mother’s nervous interview.  I wonder.

More as it develops.

It’s really too bad Higgins didn’t work out.  That Zednik was mauled by McLaren.  And that Kovalev could never bend the notes in the way we needed him to.

Tripping.  Cammalleri.

Martin is very unimpressed.  He’s had enough.  NO mercy in his stance.  Cammalleri is running out of time.

Philadelphia power.

Just under four.

Darche clears the first puck.

Timonen.  Carries from behind his net.

Voracek deep right.  Pass.  One-timer.  Price is low butte puck tangled.
Darche with some great work on the hash.  Very aggressive.

Haven’t seen him on the PK for a long time.  He’s more effective than Moen in a way.  He gets out to the puck more.  And more aggressively.  Doesn’t conserve his energy.

Flyers are routed, strung and stanched.

Another good play on the re-entry and the puck is nearly cleared.  But now it sits untended.  A shot. And Price is low to punctuate and guarantee the good work.

Montreal’s PK is in sync.

Faceoff.

One long booming shot high off glass.

Flyers keep it in.

Mathieu Carle.

Shot-pass.  Around the net.  It drops in the crease.  Nobody sees it.  Finally a stick swipes.

Simmonds.

It’s in.

Gill couldn’t take the man out.

He tried to get the stick across.  It all happened to quickly.

Philadelphia 3, Montreal 2

Flyers are an ordinary team in some ways now. But they’re better.

Better to be good than to be remembered.  No?

Legacies don’t benefit the dead.

Simmonds is all outcome. Yapping happily on the bench, he towels off and considers his good deeds.

Here comes Montreal.  Another crease crowd.  Gorges keeps and carries around the net.

Subban retreats.  Delayed call.  They advance.  Cammalleri keeps and tries passing across.  Well thought.  But a bit far.  Flyers touch it.

Jagr doesn’t like it.  Laviolette wants clarification.

Couturier. Again with the rueful almost Russian stare.  Jagr is shaking his head on the bench.

Nobody trusts Chris Lee.

About forty seconds.

They work it around.

Movement is decent.

To the net.  Ref signals it in.  Crowd doesn’t know yet.  Now the train horn.  And Cole is credited.

Cole.  Off the post.  Sneakaround shot from the side of the crease.  Bob’s right.

A pause to check the veracity.

Some nodding from the bald man at the scorer’s table.  Balding, sure.

Oh, it’s in.

Cole’s body.  Off his midsection.

Not purposeful.

But.

The decision comes from outside.

No deliberate skate motion.

It’s good.

Montreal 3, Philadelphia 3

Martin’s arms are crossed and he looks like a villain about to launch his most dire weapon.

This is his game face.

Talbot and Cole tangle.  Talbot is pushing gloves in his face. IN the corner.

Stoppage.  There will be a penalty.  Care fired it into the crowd before the stoppage.

Delay.

Not sure what Talbot was doing.  And RDS spares their home-boy a replay.

I shake my head.

Siren goes.  Desharnais is called for tripping.

We’ll go to four on four to start the next period, says Houde.

Montreal leads on shots 20-19 after a Flyer 10-8 second period advantage.

Second Intermission
Montreal 3, Philadelphia 3

Excellent game so far says Crete.  Carbonneau laughs and agrees.  Crete reaffirms that Jagr can still play in the NHL.  Carbonneau shares how difficult it is to get the puck off the giant forward.  He’s six three, 240.

Can you imagine a line with Ovechkin and Jagr?

Carbonneau is unusually comfortable tonight, smooth, informative and laughing.  Great work.

Brunet asks Subban to stop diving and playing games.  Just play hockey.  Fair enough.  Neither Carbonneau nor Crete expected Brunet to say this.  Unscripted moment.  Oh, Benoit.

Third Period
Philadelphia 3, Montreal 3

Four on four.  We aren’t shown the Desharnais call.  Refs were going to even it up but they almost certainly called something legit.
Subban.  Long shot.  Bob can’t retain it.  Drifts to the right.  Stays in the crease for a few moments.  No.

Jagr is stopped by Price and then a Cole shot is a crack and echo on the other end.  Wide of it all.  A wrister.  With one man back.

Eller launches a hard wrister from the high slot.  Bobrovsky drops low and has it.

Cammalleri is watching the replay.  A missed chance from the left circle, low. Bobrovsky made an excellent right pad save, says Denis.

Voracek, the former Blue Jacket emerges and fires.  Price stops it.  Voracek isn’t finished and from the corner advances and fires a puck to the crease.  Montreal has position.

Fourth straight game with a goal for Cole, Reseau tells us.

Shot of Kaberle.  How long will he stay with us.  Is he a rental?   Yes, it was long contract but long contracts can be eaten, waived or traded.

Simmonds from the right.  Medium high wrister.  Price was a little out of place. Had it.

Another Flyer penalty.  This is like old times.  Flyers don’t take penalties like they used to but tonight is an exception.

Couturier.  His third.

This time he resembles an incredulous Russian.  Young and in need of oxygen.

Sixteen.

First puck is cleared.

Desharnais enters.  Slightly offside.  Cole.  Desharnais had to brake and pause.

Faceoff.

Cole enjoys playing with Desharnais and Michel Bergeron has told us a few times.

Habs can’t set up.

Price emerges from the net to beat a man to the puck at the circles.  No Ryan Miler type take-out and the Canadiens are able to set up Kostitsyn with a big chance at the circle tops.  Or it sounded like a big chance.  Fanned on it.

Now Bob stops Cammalleri on a long shot.

Bob is tough to beat, folks.

Three seconds in the penalty

Talbot loses it to Nokelainen.

Back to fives.  I didn’t really want to type Couturier again.  Not an easy thing.  Especially with these idiotic QWERTY keyboards.

Under fourteen.

The teams begin to collide and play gets ragged.

Three on two, Montreal.  High, hard to handle shot from Pacioretty goes off Bob’s left shoulder and into the crowd.

Some guy with a huge camera is behind the net.  Television camera.  Holding it on his shoulder his left eye squints shut.  Reseau guy.  Sure.  Why not.

Oakland is going to play Green Bay.  Houde talks a bit of football.  Super Bowl I featured the two teams.  So Houde tells us.  And it’s true,

The Raiders.  They lost that game 33-14.  An AFL-NFL matchup.

Flyers score.

Meszaros.

Jagr got free of Subban, cruised to the dot, backhanded a pass to the blue. And the shot fooled Price. Subban made a few mistakes on that shift.  Three.  Oy.  Ugly.  Two turnovers and then a failed following of Jagr.

Philadelphia 4, Montreal 3

Eleven and thirty.

Subban’s ice time could suffer if he keeps up with these types of errors.  But it has been a while since he’s had a full dog of a game.

Muller won.  His second win as head man in Carolina.

Kirk Muller, former team captain and recent long-tie assistant coach in Montreal.  He’s been in Carolina for a few weeks now.  About two.

Cole.  Left side.  A man beside.  Space.  Quick wrister.  Bob drops and covers.

Nugent-Hopkins is leading all rookies with 32 points.  And some Flyer is on the list.

Under ten.

Flyers with two bad angle shots from either hash.

Lines change.

Laperriere for Flyers.  Darche on for Montreal.

Gorges for Eller to Nokelainen.  And they chase.  Interesting line.  Decent hockey work ethic and knowledge combined.

Eller is the most skilled.

Gill advances.  Takes a shot from the circles.  Rare and surely unexpected advance by the stay-at-home defenceman.  They call him Skillsie.  Hey, an unexpected shot is the way to score.  So said Rocket Richard.

Good enough for me.

Emelin with an advance on the left.  His shot is into bodies.  Habs pile up rushes.

Desharnais from the hash.  Shot.  Rebound.  Controlled.  More movement.  Another shot.  Kaberle advanced to meet the idling puck and the weak shot was into the forest and trapped by Bob.

Seven and a half.

The flow is good but both teams are equally interested and the Flyers still know how to shut down and close out.   Even without Pronger’s twenty-five to thirty minutes per game.

Plekanec line.  Behind the net.  Plekanec hits a man.  Cammalleri follows.  Whistle.  High stick.

Plekanec.

About five minutes.

Flyers control.  Hartnell at the hydrant.  Jagr on the right hash.  Well orchestrated re-entry.  Jagr to the net and the puck finds him.  Price thwarts the jam-shot.

One minute.

Eller up top.  A pass for Jagr is off the mark and the puck is intercepted and cleared.

Now a failed entry.

Faceoff outside the Montreal blue.

La Classique Hivernale. Mentioned.  Sounds good in French.

Three and a half.  Twenty in the penalty.

Price has it.
Nearly drops it in his net.

Stoppage.

Simmonds is yapping after the whistle.

Philadelphia has a way of bringing out the duck in people.  Or is it gander.  Or is it drake.  How about just shut down the Philadelphia franchises.

Penalty elapses.

Hartnell.  Alone.  Across.  Turns and sends the puck through the low slot.

And another penalty.

Two and a half.

Talbot.  Holding.  Legit.  Pulled Desharnais backward with both arms.

Deep right.  Lost.

Reid.  Wastes the team’s time.

Kaberle has it on the left.  Swerves into his left point spot.

Left side boards.  Coburn’s exit puck is stopped by Kaberle. They work it. Into the crease.

Subban recovers it.  Cammalleri was there, too.

Flyers push it out.

Plekanec sneaks out from the end line.  His pass floats through.

One and fifteen.  Price leaves.

Out and then in.

Deep right.

Lost on the boards.  Flyers clear it.  Wide of the net.

Fifteen.

Forty-three in the period.

More board bungling.  Finally a shot.  A rebound.  Neither convincing.

Twenty seconds.

Subban stops a shot in the Montreal zone.  Lobber.  Subban fires it long.

Icing.

Seven point one.

More booing.

Very difficult for Montreal to take the pucks in the opposition zone tonight, says Denis.

Faceoff to Price’s right.

Flyers win it.  Shot into the corner.

One last save by Price. Left pad.

Siren.

More booing.

Seventh straight win for Flyers.

Final Score
Philadelphia 4
Montreal 3

Too many failed power-plays, says Denis.  One of nine.

HDS Stars: Erik Cole, Sergei Bobrovsky, Tomas Plekanec
RDS Stars: Mathieu Carle, David Desharnais, Louis Leblanc

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