In Toronto, Carter Hart made 23 saves, and the Philadelphia Flyers blanked the Montreal Canadiens, 1-0, on Sunday.
The win gives the Flyers a 2-1 series lead.
“We all responded,” Hart said. “We know that Game 2 wasn’t our best, nowhere near our capability of play. That was huge for us to come out and set the tone early and get the first goal there, the only goal of the game, and just continue to battle and outwork them.”
Jakub Voracek scored the game’s only goal early in the opening frame.
“He’s really strong mentally,” Voracek said. “He’s a young kid that works really hard. He’s pretty impressive with the way he bounces back, even since last year. If he has a bad game he always comes back strong. I think that’s what good goalies do.”
Neither team gave much room to skate or shoot .
“It’s the style of game we expected going in,” Montreal’s Brendan Gallagher said. “They find a way to put one in our net, we were unable to beat their goaltender. They came out hard in the first period, they had a push, which we expected. After that there were chances both ways. We just didn’t do a good enough job of outworking their goaltender or helping ours.”
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Carey Price,made 19 saves in the loss.
“The effort was there,” Montreal coach Kirk Muller said. “Both teams didn’t get much. We knew today was going to be a tough game. I thought the first period, they had the power plays and we couldn’t get momentum like the last game. But as the game went, what I liked is our guys didn’t quit. It was a great effort. We fought through the second and third, hit some posts. One of those goes in, it was a different outcome. … I can honestly say to our players, ‘Listen, you didn’t quit, you kept going, you kept pushing.’ I thought the effort was great from everybody tonight.”
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