Carey Price

It's anybody's guess what goes on inside the head of a struggling goalie, but according to Carey Price, whatever is going on in his head is not the result of anything the Flyers are doing. Yes, the 20-year-old Montreal rookie said, the Flyers are doing a lot of yapping in an attempt to throw him off his game. And they really gave him an earful after they put three shots behind him in the second period of the 3-2 Canadiens' loss Monday night, which gave the Flyers a two-games-to-one lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Nov. 1, 2007, at MONTREAL Canadiens 5, Flyers 2 Flyers goals: Mike Richards, Scottie Upshall Flyers goals: Mike Richards, Scottie Upshall Canadiens goals: Saku Koivu, Alex Kovalev, Tom Kostopoulos, Guillaume Latendresse, Christopher Higgins Flyers goalie: Marty Biron, 36 saves Canadiens goalie: Cristobal Huet, 17 saves Turning point: Kovalev scored on the power play, then Kostopoulos scored shorthanded a little more than...

Mike Cammalleri got his team-leading 16th goal after Andrei Kostitsyn scored on Montreal's third shot of the game in the second period, and the Canadiens went on to a 3-1 win over the Flyers last night. Daniel Briere scored an unassisted goal in the first for the Flyers, who lost their fifth in a row, including an 8-2 loss to Washington on Saturday in Peter Laviolette's debut behind the bench. The Flyers lost both games since Laviolette took over from former coach John Stevens, fired Friday in the wake of their second shutout loss in a row. Brian Boucher stopped 10 shots in his sixth appearance - including four starts - in seven games.

MONTREAL linemates Erik Cole and Max Pacioretty scored two goals each as the Canadiens snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning, 5-2, Wednesday night. Before the game, the Canadiens announced starting goalie Carey Price has a mild concussion and will miss the rest of the season. He has been having headaches since teammate David Desharnais landed on him during a drill in practice last week.   In another game *  At St. Louis, Johan Franzen scored on consecutive shots in the third period and Todd Bertuzzi netted the lone goal in a shootout as the Detroit Red Wings rallied to beat the St. Louis Blues, 3-2. Pavel Datsyuk set up both regulation goals for the Red Wings, who moved a point ahead of Nashville for fourth in the Western Conference with 101 points.

WASHINGTON - If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best, right? Well, that's what the Flyers face now. The Flyers, after defeating the Capitals, 3-2, in overtime last night, will take on Montreal, the Eastern Conference's top seed, in the second round beginning tomorrow. The Canadiens needed seven games to swat away a pesky Bruins team that almost made a miraculous comeback from a 3-1 deficit. The Canadiens closed out the first-round series on Monday by thumping the Bruins, 5-0. The Flyers lost all four meetings with Montreal this season by a combined score of 15-6.

Travis Moen and Tomas Plekanec scored in a 3-minute span early in the second period, Michael Cammalleri added a goal in the third, and the visiting Montreal Canadiens withstood a furious comeback to beat the Washington Capitals, 3-2, last night. Montreal led, 3-1, when Brendan Morrison scored with 2 minutes, 32 seconds remaining to pull Washington within a goal. Then Maxim Lapierre was whistled for hooking with 1:52 to play, giving the Capitals a power play through the end of regulation.

Brendan Shanahan is retiring from the NHL after 21 seasons and an almost certain Hall of Fame career. The 40-year-old forward announced yesterday that he wouldn't play again. After going through training camp with the New Jersey Devils, the team he spent his final season with, he and the club mutually parted unexpectedly shortly before opening night of the season. Shanahan, who scored 656 career goals, decided to leave the Devils in October one day after he was told there was no spot for him on New Jersey's top three lines.

Canadiens top Lightning in a shootout Carey Price made three big shootout saves, and Michael Cammalleri scored on Montreal's fourth attempt in the tiebreaker to give the Canadiens a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night. Price sprawled to the ice to poke-check the puck away from NHL goal leader Steven Stamkos and then turned aside Martin St. Louis' 360 attempt. After Simon Gagne scored on Tampa Bay's third attempt to extend the shootout, Cammalleri snapped a shot past Dwayne Roloson.

DAVID DESHARNAIS had two goals and an assist, and the Montreal Canadiens ended visiting Detroit's seven-game winning streak with a 7-2 victory over the Red Wings last night. Alexei Emelin scored his first NHL goal, and Montreal scored four times in the opening period against goalie Jimmy Howard, who will make his first NHL All-Star Game appearance on Sunday in Ottawa. The Canadiens then put their first two shots of the second period past backup goalie Ty Conklin, who took over for Howard to begin the period.

Carey Price had the latest sold-out Bell Centre crowd squarely behind him as he led the Montreal Canadiens back to the top of the Eastern Conference. Price made 38 saves for his second shutout, and Bryan Smolinski and Saku Koivu scored first-period goals as Montreal beat visiting New Jersey, 4-0, last night and moved ahead of the Devils into first place in the East. Maxim Lapierre scored in the second period to put the Canadiens up 3-0, Michael Ryder scored with 2:21 remaining in the third and Montreal ended New Jersey's three-game winning streak.

MONTREAL linemates Erik Cole and Max Pacioretty scored two goals each as the Canadiens snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning, 5-2, Wednesday night. Before the game, the Canadiens announced starting goalie Carey Price has a mild concussion and will miss the rest of the season. He has been having headaches since teammate David Desharnais landed on him during a drill in practice last week.   In another game *  At St. Louis, Johan Franzen scored on consecutive shots in the third period and Todd Bertuzzi netted the lone goal in a shootout as the Detroit Red Wings rallied to beat the St. Louis Blues, 3-2. Pavel Datsyuk set up both regulation goals for the Red Wings, who moved a point ahead of Nashville for fourth in the Western Conference with 101 points.

DAVID DESHARNAIS had two goals and an assist, and the Montreal Canadiens ended visiting Detroit's seven-game winning streak with a 7-2 victory over the Red Wings last night. Alexei Emelin scored his first NHL goal, and Montreal scored four times in the opening period against goalie Jimmy Howard, who will make his first NHL All-Star Game appearance on Sunday in Ottawa. The Canadiens then put their first two shots of the second period past backup goalie Ty Conklin, who took over for Howard to begin the period.

MONTREAL - Minus a certain outspoken captain, the Flyers' dressing room was a little more quiet, and their defensive rotation was a lot more unstable on Wednesday night. Welcome to the team's latest version of Life Without Pronger. Like they did 32 times during last year's regular season, the Flyers played without star defenseman Chris Pronger when they faced the free-falling Canadiens. If Wednesday's result is any indication, it's going to be a bumpy two or three weeks for the Flyers.

MONTREAL - Minus a certain outspoken captain, the Flyers' dressing room was a little more quiet, and their defensive rotation was a lot more unstable on Wednesday night. Welcome to the team's latest version of Life Without Pronger. Like they did 32 times during last year's regular season, the Flyers played without star defenseman Chris Pronger when they faced the free-falling Canadiens. If Wednesday's result is any indication, it's going to be a bumpy two or three weeks for the Flyers.

Zdeno Chara, Milan Lucic, and Tyler Seguin had a goal and two assists each, and the Boston Bruins handed the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs their first regulation loss, a 6-2 defeat Thursday night. The Stanley Cup champions scored two power-play goals, matching their total in the first six games of the season, and won for the second time in five games. It was just the second time in 41 regular-season games that they scored twice with a man advantage. David Steckel gave Toronto (4-1-1)

MONTREAL - Brian Gionta and Michael Cammalleri scored during two separate two-man advantages, and the Montreal Canadiens forced a Game 7 in their first-round playoff series with a 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. Game 7 is Wednesday night in Boston, with the Bruins looking to beat Montreal for only the ninth time in 33 postseason series. Dennis Seidenberg scored for Boston, which played more than half the game without ejected winger Milan Lucic but still outshot the Canadiens, 32-27.

Carey Price saw the puck much better last night than he did a year ago from the Montreal bench. The Canadiens goalie posted his third postseason shutout after starting just one of his team's 19 playoff games last season, Brian Gionta scored twice and visiting Montreal opened the series with a 2-0 win over Boston. "If we were able to write down on paper how we would have wanted to start the series this would have been it," Price said. The tall netminder stopped 31 shots, few of them challenging and most with no Bruins in the slot to block his view.

Canadiens top Lightning in a shootout Carey Price made three big shootout saves, and Michael Cammalleri scored on Montreal's fourth attempt in the tiebreaker to give the Canadiens a 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday night. Price sprawled to the ice to poke-check the puck away from NHL goal leader Steven Stamkos and then turned aside Martin St. Louis' 360 attempt. After Simon Gagne scored on Tampa Bay's third attempt to extend the shootout, Cammalleri snapped a shot past Dwayne Roloson.

Carey Price made three big shootout saves, and Michael Cammalleri scored on Montreal's fourth attempt in the tiebreaker to give the Canadiens a 3-2 win over the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning last night. Price sprawled to the ice to poke-check the puck away from NHL goal leader Steven Stamkos and then turned aside Martin St. Louis' attempt. After Simon Gagne scored on Tampa Bay's third attempt to extend the shootout, Cammalleri snapped a shot past Dwayne Roloson. Price then waited out Teddy Purcell's deke for a glove save to secure the win. Price stopped 35 shots, and Brian Gionta and Andrei Kostitsyn had goals in regulation for sixth-place Montreal, which has 85 points - three fewer than fifth-place Tampa Bay in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

MONTREAL - With Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger injured and in the locker room, the Montreal Canadiens turned the third period into their own personal shooting gallery Wednesday night. But the Flyers withstood the Canadiens' furious comeback and won it with a counterattack of their own, outlasting Montreal, 5-3, at the earsplitting Bell Centre. They took the lead for good on James van Riemsdyk's second goal of the night, a power-play tally with 5 minutes, 33 seconds left that keyed their fourth straight win. Van Riemsdyk knocked in a rebound after Jeff Carter's shot was turned aside by Carey Price, and Nik Zherdev won a battle for the loose puck.