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Coming into this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs, Martin Biron was an unproven quantity when it came to playoff hockey. At 30 years of age, he had never played in an NHL playoff game. Since the playoffs have started Biron has played spectacular in net and is the cornerstone behind the Flyers push through [...]

Just like playoff series between these two teams in the past, the tension and intensity are beginning to increase. Tom Kostopoulos’ sucker punch on Kimmo Timonen at the end of game 2 and Guy Carbonneau’s comments regarding it just added to it. But for the Flyers, since Bruce Boudreau of the Capitals started [...]

Following the Flyers’ fourth goal in Saturday’s game 2, Montreal’s Tom Kostopoulos landed a sucker punch on Flyers defenseman Kimmo Timonen. It has been classified by many as cheap, gutless, and cowardly.
Of course, Guy Carbonneau isn’t calling the hit that. He went as far as to say that Timonen deserved the [...]

As last night’s game progressed, the tension seemed to pick up. The “friction”, in Bill Clement’s terms, between the Flyers and the Canadiens in the playoffs is nothing new. Here are a few examples.
1987 Conference Finals
At the time, Claude Lemeiux of the Canadiens was in his second year, and a pregame [...]

In some games, the bounces seem to go your way, and in others they don’t. That’s one way you could describe the first game in the second round match up between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Montreal Canadiens.
Early in the first period, Montreal would have some excellent chances, however, the bounces didn’t [...]

Both of these teams are coming off of first round series that went seven games. For the first place Canadiens, the 8th place Bruins took them to 7 games. The Bruins were able to take it Montreal and shut down the league’s top performing power play. For the Flyers, they are coming [...]