FLYERS NEWS

The Flyers came into tonight a win in Montreal away from advancing to the conference finals for the first time in 4 years. This, after finishing last season with the worst record in the NHL. A remarkable turn around indeed. Thanks' to the desperation of the Habs to save their season, tonight's game proved to be about 3 times harder to win than the last 3, but eventually the Flyer's indomitable will to win won out. Early in the first period of play, Tomas Plekanec got the Habs off to a roaring start with a power play goal to put them up 1-0. Late in the period R.J Umberger scored to tie it up at 1. Then a few minutes later Alexei Kovalev scored for a 2-1 Habs lead. Midway through the second period Chris Higgins scored for a 3-1 Habs lead and a for a while it appeared that a game 6 would be inevitable. Instead the resilient Flyers roared back, as Mike Richards, Umberger again, and Scotty Hartnell each scored late in the period and suddenly the Flyers were back ahead 4-3 heading into the 3rd. Early in the 3rd period of play, Andrei Kostitysn score to knot it up at 4. Later in the period with just over 3 minutes to play, Scottie Upshall scored for a 5-4 lead. Then in the final minutes of the game, the desperate Habs pulled goalie Carey Price, in favor of the extra attacker, but it was to no avail, as Mike Knuble scored on the empty net with just under a minute to play, to finish off a 6-4 Flyer's win. So the Orange and Black are headed to the Eastern Conference finals, and if they keep playing like this, they might just be headed back to the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1997.