For a second consecutive match, the Habs extended the pleasure in extremis. This time, however, he got the better of his rivals, winning 4-3 in overtime once morest the Flyers in Philadelphia on Sunday.
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Cole Caufield scored the winning goal with a powerful slap shot.
Rem Pitlick scored the tying goal to force overtime with less than a minute left in the game, and this, while shorthanded.
Cam Atkinson had given Mike Yeo’s men a 3-2 lead. The skillful delivery of Joel Farabee allowed him to slip the disc between the legs of Samuel Montembeault in the third period.
Nick Suzuki shone in the victory by being the author of the other two goals of his own.
The 22-year-old pivot had tied the game at 2-2 by jumping on his own return to throw only a minute following a success from Claude Giroux. The Franco-Ontarian broke away from CH’s defensive cover to find himself alone in front of Montembeault, whom he easily thwarted.
The Quebec goalkeeper was playing a second game in 24 hours. He stopped 27 of 30 shots in the win.
In the first period, giant format center Kevin Hayes opened the scoring by completing a tic-tac-toe in which Travis Sanheim and James van Riemsdyk participated.
Suzuki responded with his second of the game, this time on the power play. Recipient of a long pass from Caufield, he deceived the vigilance of Carter Hart with a precise wrist shot.
The unlucky CH in the victory
Meanwhile, Ryan Poehling left the game in the second period following being checked hard by defenseman Justin Braun behind the Flyers net.
Before the game, Artturi Lehkonen also injured his upper body during the warm-up period. Laurent Dauphin has thus taken his place in the third trio.
The Habs will host the Arizona Coyotes at the Bell Center on Tuesday.
