3. Goalie Carey Price was a first-round pick in 2005 who led Hamilton to the American Hockey League's Calder Cup in 2007. Sent back down to Hamilton early this season, he came back up in January and began starting after Cristobal Huet got hurt. He did so well that Huet was traded to Washington.
4. What do we know from the numbers? The Flyers outshot the Canadiens in three of the four regular-season games. But Montreal excelled on special teams, scoring six power-play goals and adding another shorthanded.
5. Montreal captain Saku Koivu, 33, has overcome several physical obstacles. Six seasons into his NHL career, in September 2001, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and missed practically the entire 2001-02 season. But he recovered and was able to return for the playoffs, leading the Canadiens to an unlikely first-round upset of the No. 1-ranked Bruins. A serious eye injury knocked him out of the 2006 playoffs, and he recently returned to the lineup after a broken foot.
6. This is another team the Flyers haven't seen in the playoffs in a while. They are 1-3 vs. the Canadiens in the playoffs; that one win came in the Wales Conference finals in 1987. They lost to them in the conference finals 2 years later; Guy Carbonneau, now the coach, was a player on that 1989 team that beat the Flyers in six. The Canadiens are 14-7 vs. Flyers in the postseason.
7. Alex Kovalev vs. Flyers: 51 points in 65 games.
