Montreal woes continue with OT loss to Flyers

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The Montreal Canadiens are having issues putting a full game together and Saturday afternoon’s contest with the Philadelphia Flyers was a sketch of the woes, a 4-3 loss in over time,

Ivan Provorov scored 31 seconds into extra time to give the Flyers the win, their fourth straight.

Ivan Provorov #9 of the Philadelphia Flyers

“I stopped with the puck behind the net then they kind of gave me room to skate,” Provorov said. “So I took the ice and then I saw it was a forward skating backwards. So I figured I had time and I had speed, so I figured I’d try it, and it worked.”

Brian Elliott made 39 saves in the win.

“I kind of saw him (Provorov) setting up for it,” Elliott said. “And when you have a little step on somebody, they’re not thinking that you’re going to go it alone in overtime. And he just took it, made a nice move and buried it, and it’s a great feeling at the other end of the ice when you don’t even have to touch a puck.”

Joel Armia scored for Montreal and Tomas Tatar had two strikes for the Habs.

“I think we showed character in 60 minutes,” Tatar said. “We were pretty happy with our game, how it went. It hurts that it didn’t go in our way in overtime.”

Oskar Lindblom, Kevin Hayes and Travis Konecny scored for the Flyers in regulation.

“I didn’t think [Ivan Provorov] had that move in his repertoire,” Flyers coach Alain Vigneault said. “So obviously, it was a great move, a big goal for us. Our fifth game in seven and a half days, finding a way to come up with a big win after giving up that early goal, and obviously a goal that Brian [Elliott] would want to have back. But what a battler. He kept us in, especially at the end of the second there when our PK wasn’t very good and he made some unreal saves. And we were able to come through, get to overtime and win it on an unbelievable goal.”

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Keith Kinkaid made 24 saves in the loss.

“I think the boys deserved better,” Kinkaid said. “I’ve got to have that one in overtime. I kind of cheated a little short side, I thought he’d go up top. And the boys played great defensively in front of me, and we were buzzing, Elliott made some huge saves.”