Flyers Take Series Lead

The Flyers are one tough team to play against at home in these playoffs. The Capitals sure had a hard time and now the Canadiens are feeling the squeeze of the Wachovia Center crowd. The Flyers chased Carey Price (Box 24) from the net after two periods, down 3-0, but those Habs were resilient. They managed to snag two goals on a major penalty to Derian Hatcher (non-pool) to make it a close game, but the Flyers hung on for the win, 3-2.

The winning goal came late in the second, when R.J. Umberger (Box 17) shoved the puck past the Canadiens netminder. That was Umberger's second game-winner of the playoffs and fifth point in this series against the Canadiens. Only one team in the Playoff Pool picked up Umberger and he's way down near the bottom, so this production paragraph is almost all for naught.

It was scoring by committee for both teams last night. The only other player to have a multi-point game was Martin Biron (Box 24), because he ended up with the win. Not surprisingly (at the start of the playoffs), no one in the pool has Biron, so his 15 points in the post-season are going unappreciated.