Flyers Spoil Hockey Night in Canada

The Flyers went into Montreal for the first time since defeating the Canadiens 4-1 in round 2 of last year's playoff. The left same victorious way as they did last May. Goals by Scottie Upshall and Jeff Carter lifted the Flyers to a 2-1 win to move them to 6-6-4 on the season. The Flyers ended their 7 game losing streak to the Canadiens in the regular season.

Scottie Upshall scored on a deflection from a great pass by Mike Richards. Scottie Upshall nearly scored a number of times on similar deflections, but he finally put one home. Upshall was able to provide great energy and it was truthfully the first time I've seen it consistently from him all season.

Jeff Carter's goal came via a perfect pass from Simon Gagne, which allowed Jeff Carter to skate on in alone and bury a wrist shot top shelf.

Martin Biron took a shutout halfway throuh the third period before he was beat on a one-timer out in front. Biron stopped 24 shots and has continued to show signs that he is back to being the same Biron that was there for the Flyers in the playoffs.

Since starting the season 0-3-3, The Flyers have quietly gone 6-3-1 in their last 10 games. In a couple of those losses, they blew leads as well. The Flyers will look to build a winning streak tomorrow when they host the Atlanta Thrashers. Expect the ice to be sloppy with a Sixers game being there tonight.

Highlights after the jump.

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Flyers Keep Winning, Up 3-1

The Flyers extended their series lead to 3-1 by beating the Canadiens 4-2 after surrending another 2-0 lead late in the third. Montreal committed a dumb penalty to give the Flyers the PP and Daniel Briere 30 seconds of the man advantage to notch the game winner with 3:38 seconds left. R.J. Umberger added his second goal of the night when he out hustled the Montreal skaters for the empty-net wrap around.

R.J. Umberger started the scoring in the second period with a power play goal that he put right under Halak's right arm. It stayed 1-0 going into the third period, but early in the third period, Vinny Prospal's shot went off the crossbar and bounced right to Scott Hartnell who fired it in the back of the net to give the Flyers a 2-0 lead and the Philly crowd was ecstatic. However, with just under 7 minutes left in the period the Canadiens took less than a minute to make it 2-2. The crowd was silenced and everyone thought, "Oh no, not again."

Fortune came back our way as Canadien forward Steve Begin was called for an interference penalty away from the play with just under 4:00 minutes left. Daniel Briere put in the rebound of a Vinny Prospal shot to give the Flyers the lead with 3:38 left.

Martin Biron continued to be amazing as he stopped 36 of Montreal's 38 shots and was named first star of the game.

The final 4 minutes of the game on CSN.

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Flyers Win 3-2

Another game, more questionable calls; however, the Flyers defeated the Canadiens 3-2 in front of a packed Wachovia crowd. After a scoreless first period, the Flyers exploded in the third for 3 goals from Scottie Upshall, Mike Richards (SH), and R.J. Umberger. The Flyers now lead the series 2-1 and the teams will be back in action on Thursday.

Marty Biron was tremendous as he made 32 saves and many of them great. The Flyers were out shot 34-14 and they will have to attack more if they want to win the series. They cannot continue to sit back and watch Marty Biron try to bail them out.

The Canadiens came back late in the third after Derian Hatcher committed a boarding penalty. It was a penalty, but Hatcher was given a major and a misconduct penalty. The Canadiens scored 2 goals in the power-play, and nearly tied it many times.

Mike Knuble might be back for Game 4, but is more likely that he'll see game 5 action.

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Fuck Canada

There is your recap on the game. Fuck Canada. That call was an absolute horrendous joke officiating.



Flyers had a game stolen from them. Let's hope they beat the Canadiens and the officials in four straight.

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Flyers Lose Again

Flyers lost again tonight by falling to Montreal 1-0.

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