Wrap: Flyers Beat Habs in OT, 4-3
A highlight reel end-to-end overtime goal by Ivan Provorov and an excellent goaltending performance by Brian Elliott lifted a tired Philadelphia Flyers team to a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre on Saturday afternoon.
The Flyers, who completed a 30-day blitz of 16 games with four games in the final five-and-a-half days of the month, ran out energy in the final game but Elliott delivered to steal one point and Provorov delivered the second in OT. Philly finished November with an NHL-best 24 points (10-2-4).
In regulation, the Flyers trailed by scores of 1-0 and 2-1 and then held a short-lived 3-2 lead in the third period. Oskar Lindblom's deflection goal (11th) off a Justin Braun shot and Kevin Hayes' quick response (8th) off a Joel Farabee feed to Montreal's second go-ahead goal, sent the game to the second intermission knotted at 2-2. Travis Konecny (9th goal) finished off an odd-man rush on a tic-tac-toe sequence with Claude Giroux and Michael Raffl to temporarily put the Flyers ahead 3-2. Provorov's OT winner at 31 seconds into OT was his sixth goal of the season. Sean Couturier drew the lone assist.
Elliott let in an ugly goal by Joel Armia just 19 seconds into the game and then was stellar the rest of the way in making 39 saves on 42 shots. Tomas Tatar scored even strength and power play goals (8th and 9th) for Montreal. In a losing cause, Keith Kinkaid stopped 25 of 29 shots.
The Flyers went 0-for-2 on the power play and 2-for-3 on the penalty kill.
After a complete off-day on Sunday, the Flyers will practice on Monday at the Skate Zone in Voorhees in preparation for hosting the Toronto Maple Leafs the next night. For more on Saturday's victory,
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Phantoms Conquer Wolf Pack in OT, 2-1
One night after Lehigh Valley defenseman T.J. Brennan scored in overtime against the WB/S Penguins, fellow Phantoms blueliner Andy Welinski scored the OT game-winner (4th) to lift his team over the Hartford Wolf Pack at the PPL Center on Saturday evening.
The Phantoms trailed 1-0 heading into the third period, as Hartford made a latter first period goal by Matt Beleskey stand up. Finally, at 7:21 of the third period, Greg Carey (8th) tallied on the power play to knot the score at 1-1. Welinski and Cal O'Reilly assisted.
Alex Lyon earned the win in goal, turning back 34 of 35 shots. Igor Shesterkin (25 saves on 27 shots) took the lost in goal. O'Reilly earned the lone assist on Welinski's game-winner.
The Phantoms (10-7-5) return to action on Wednesday in a road game against the Springfield Thunderbirds (13-11-0).
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