TORONTO (AP) – Flyers goalkeeper Carter Hart grew up supporting Carey Price and was delighted to meet his goalke goater idol this season. Beating the Canadians and being congratulated through Price in the handshake line felt much better for Hart.
“He said, “Helluva series” and he’ll watch, ” said Hart. “Pretty special and definitely anything I can’t forget.”
Ivan Provorov, Kevin Hayes and Michael Raffl scored to take the Philadelphia Flyers so far for the first time in 8 years with a 3–2 win over the Montreal Canadiens in Friday night’s sixth game.
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 are a bright spot in the Philadelphia scene.
“We have to make our component so that people, a few hours a day, can think of anything other than COVID,” Flyers coach Alain Vigneault said.
The Flyers will play the New York Islanders. The islands went 3-0 to Philadelphia this season and won 4-1 in the series against the Washington Capitals.
Hart again overcame his idol and difficult for the Flyers and stopped 31 shots for the seeded Flyers.
Nick Suzuki scored twice for the Canadiens.
The Flyers scored 28 seconds in the game when Provorov redirected Price ahead 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.
“We didn’t play our skill and we still had four wins,” Hayes said.
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 were waiting for.
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. Goal game.
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 playoff games to take the score to 3-2, but the entire offense can simply be reunited.
“They just had a chance to get some early bounces and we just couldn’t get our break,” said the Canadiens’ defense, Shea Weber.
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,” Vigneault said before Game 6. “I think if the Montreal medical staff had felt it was serious, they would probably have taken it and brought it.” In. I can only tell the facts and say what I was looking for. What I was looking for was a guy who kept talking so he wouldn’t look like he was hurt.
THE HAB NOTES: The Habs finished 4-8-1 without Gallagher in the line-up this season. Array.. Montreal has played his last five games without coach Claude Julien after needing a stent inserted into his coronary artery. Array.. Montreal last The Eastern Team to qualify for the expanded playoffs, and then needed four games to win their most productive five-game series against Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins. “I think they all intervened. The commitment there, the effort there,” Weber said.