TORONTO – Ivan Provorov, Kevin Hayes and Michael Raffl scored to take the Philadelphia Flyers to the moment for the first time in 8 years with a 3–2 win over the Montreal Canadiens in Game 6 on Friday night.
The Flyers won the 4-2 series and are at the circular moment of the Eastern Conference for the first time since 2012. The Flyers have played in the Stanley Cup final since 2010 or have won the championship since 1975.
The Flyers will play the New York Islanders.
Carter Hart struggled for the Flyers and stopped 31 shots for the highest-ranked Flyers
Nick Suzuki scored twice for the Canadiens.
The Flyers scored 28 seconds in the game when Provorov redirected a overtaking of Carey Price for the lead and the seventh time in the playoffs, they scored the first.
Hayes beat Price about 6 minutes later for his first purpose of the season and a 2-0 lead. The Flyers made it to the playoffs at this point without any primary production from their most sensitive scorers. Travis Konecny (24), Hayes (23), Sean Couturier (22), Claude Giroux (21) and James van Riemsdyk (19) failed to score a goal before Game 6. The Flyers even scratched Van Riemsdyk for several games. the playoffs.
The Flyers have won production targets deep within their lines and Hart, of course, has been fantastic. He had two bleachers against the Canadiens and the 22-year-old plays as the franchise goalkeeper the Flyers expected.
He just couldn’t help Suzuki.
Suzuki angered the Flyers, and later apologized, after hitting Hart in the head after the Canadiens tied in Game 5.
Raffl helped generate a loss of ball in the second, led the race and scored for a 3-1 lead. Suzuki returned to Montreal and scored his fourth goal in 10 postseason games to take the score to 3-2.
The Flyers played without defense matt Niskanen after the league suspended a game for breaking Brendan Gallagher’s jaw. It’s a big loss for Montreal; Associate coach Kirk Muller called Gallagher “the center of our team.”
“He didn’t look like he was injured, unless he looked like he had a cut,” Flyers coach Alain Vigneault said before Game 6. “I think if the Montreal medical staff felt it was serious, it would probably get rid of it. of him and I returned him inside. I can only state the facts and say what I was looking for. What I was looking for was a guy who kept talking so as not to look like he was hurt.”
Notes: The Habs finished 4-8-1 Gallagher in the lineup this season. Array.. Vigneault took two other groups to the Stanley Cup final but never won a championship. Array.. Montreal played his last five games with coach Claude Julien after needing a stent inserted into his coronary artery.