Philly Sports Jabronis
Game Report From Philadelphia Flyers
* Wayne Simmonds scored two goals tonight… He now has four of the Flyers eight goals through the first three games of the season.
* Simmonds also had his second consecutive multi-goal game… It’s the second time in his career he’s had consecutive multi-goal games, coming after last year’s three-goal stretch from Dec. 21-28 when he became the third Flyer in franchise history to post three consecutive multi-goal games.
* Simmonds led the Flyers with six shots on goal, and had four more attempts that missed the net.
* Ray Emery was sharp throughout the game, including a stop on Lars Eller with a post-to-post save to keep a two-goal lead for the Flyers midway through the first period… His best save of the game came in overtime when he denied Alex Galchenyuk on a breakaway attempt with a spectacular glove save… Overall Emery stopped 35 of 38 shots and three of four players in the shootout to take the loss.
* The Flyers blocked 32 Canadiens shots tonight. Nick Schultz led the Flyers with seven blocks.
* Andrew MacDonald had over 28 minutes of ice-time tonight (28:01), the most of any player on either team.
* The Flyers recorded 14 shots in the first and 13 shots in the second period but were outshot 19 to 4 in the third period by Montreal.
* The game saw rare 3 on 3 action for 14 seconds towards the end of the first period, in which there were seven minor penalties.
* The Flyers play their final game of their three-game homestand on Tuesday when they host the Anaheim Ducks… The club then kicks off a six-game road trip, visiting Dallas, Chicago and Pittsburgh.
POSTGAME RECAP
PHILADELPHIA — Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau scored in the fourth round of the shootout to give the Montreal Canadiens a 4-3 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday at Wells Fargo Center.
Parenteau came down the middle and beat Flyers goalie Ray Emery to cap the Canadiens’ rally from a 3-0 deficit.
Canadiens goalie Carey Price stopped the Flyers’ Vincent Lecavalier, Claude Giroux, Sean Couturier and Matt Read in the shootout.
Price made 29 saves in regulation and overtime. Andrei Markov had a goal and two assists, Tomas Plekanec had a goal and an assist, and Alex Galchenyuk had a goal for the Canadiens.
The Canadiens are 3-0-0, their best start since 2005-06.
Wayne Simmonds had his second-straight two-goal game for the Flyers, and Michael Raffl also had a goal. Ray Emery, in his first start of the season, made 35 saves in regulation and overtime; he also stopped David Desharnais, Galchenyuk and Brendan Gallagher in the shootout.
The Flyers led 3-0 after two periods, but the Canadiens roared back in the third, outshooting Philadelphia 19-4 and scoring three times, including Galchenyuk’s tying goal with 5:20 left. Plekanec fired a shot from the left side and Galchenyuk, camped in front of Emery, tipped the puck into the Philadelphia goal for his first of the season.
The Flyers had the best chance of overtime, getting a power play when Lars Eller was called for tripping at 2:23, but they managed one shot on goal.
The Canadiens started their third-period comeback on goals by Markov and Plekanec. The goals were separated by 2:07.
Markov scored his first of the season at 7:05 to get the Canadiens on the board. P.K. Subban’s shot from the left side kicked behind the Philadelphia net to Brendan Gallagher, who had a whack at it as skaters converged on the net. Flyers defenseman Nick Schultz tried to clear the puck but it went to Markov, and Emery never saw his shot .
Plekanec scored his fourth goal when Emery couldn’t glove Parenteau’s shot from the slot. The puck slipped out of Emery’s glove and dropped next to him, and Plekanec scored easily at 9:12.
