It’s easy to look at the 5-2 score line and think that Montreal was utterly outclassed and shellacked out of their own building on Saturday night. But, the numbers tell a different story. One where, through two-thirds of the game, the Montreal Canadiens ran the Philadelphia Flyers’ show, and then had the wheels come off.
The pressure the Canadiens put on in the early going had the Flyers back on their heels right from the outset. So much in fact, that they managed one long-range shot on Antti Niemi through twenty minutes of game time.