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[Dark Knight]

Please post your thoughts, pictures and comments on tonight's games in this thread.

Philadelphia at Montreal

[DropThePuck]

TSN's Ice Chips:

The Red Wings took Friday and today off before possibly going back to practice Sunday. - Detroit Free Press

The Canadiens will look to Carey Price to reverse their fortunes against the Flyers. - TSN

Rangers star Sean Avery has been taken out of the intensive care unit, but will remain in hospital for a couple of more days recovering from a lacerated spleen. - TSN

Defenceman Jaroslav Modry rejoined the Flyers after returning from the Czech Republic and bringing his mother. His father passed away during the last series. - Philadelphia Inquirer

The Penguins did not practice Friday. With two days between Game 4, a 3-0 loss to the Rangers on Thursday, and Game 5, at Mellon Arena on Sunday, coach Michel Therrien decided rest was the best response to his club's first loss of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Therrien hasn't penciled Max Talbot into his lineup for Game 5 of the Penguins' second-round playoff series against the New York Rangers. Talbot, whose right foot was broken when he blocked a shot in Game 3, will try to practice Saturday. If he can and there are no major complications, Talbot could participate in Game 5. - Tribune Review/Post-Gazette

Sharks Coach Ron Wilson stayed with the same lineup on Friday that won Game 4. Marcel Goc, Alexei Semenov, Sandis Ozolinsh, Patrick Rissmiller and Jody Shelley were healthy scratches. Injured Sharks defenceman Kyle McLaren missed his seventh game of the postseason. - Mercury News

[DropThePuck]

Pittsburgh Penguins' Jordan Staal, right, and Georges Laraque push each other along the boards during practice in Canonsburg, Pa., Saturday, May 3, 2008. The Penguins face the New York Rangers in Game 5 of an Eastern Conference semifinal playoff hockey series on Sunday in Pittsburgh.
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)


Pittsburgh Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury listens to coaches during practice in Canonsburg, Pa., Saturday, May 3, 2008. The Penguins face the New York Rangers in Game 5 of an NHL Eastern Conference semifinal playoff hockey series Sunday in Pittsburgh.
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)


Pittsburgh Penguins' Sidney, Crosby, right, listens to coaches with teammates Evgeni Malkin, left, of Russia, and Georges Laraque, top, during practice in Canonsburg, Pa., Saturday, May 3, 2008. The Penguins face the New York Rangers in Game 5 of an Eastern Conference semifinal playoff hockey series Sunday in Pittsburgh.
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

[OrangeDucky]

Come on Philadelphia! Boot Montreal into orbit, where they belong.

[Still MIGHTY]

Go
Looooooooooooooops

[Dark Knight]

FINAL SCORE:

Philadelphia at Montreal 6-4 (Philadelphia wins the series 4-1). Price with another shaky game.

Just as I said a while back, Philadelphia is the dark horse of these playoffs

[Dark Knight]

Montreal's exit will also assure that the will stay south of the border for the 15th straight season. Last Canadian team to win it was Montreal in 1993 against LAK

Of course, later that same year a certain hockey team took residence at the Pond

[Still MIGHTY]

An All-PA Eastern Finals (Assuming doesn't achieve the impossible)
This will be interesting

looks extremely formidable on offense, but is hottttttttt right now.

[DropThePuck]

6 - Umberger, R. (10:20 in 1st), Richards, M. (14:02 in 2nd), Umberger, R. (15:44 in 2nd), Hartnell, S. (17:00 in 2nd), Upshall, S. (16:56 in 3rd), Knuble, M. (19:10 in 3rd)
4 - Plekanec, T. (PPG, 04:29 in 1st), Kovalev, A. (11:28 in 1st), Higgins, C. (08:15 in 2nd), Kostitsyn, A. (02:13 in 3rd)

Richards got credit for his fourth goal of the playoffs when he put up his left hand as Umberger's shot sailed past him and Price. A video review upheld the goal.

"I tried to catch it and luckily my hand-eye is terrible," Richards said. "It went right off my shoulder and then I turned around for the rebound and it went in the net. That was the break we needed, I think."

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Philadelphia Flyers' R.J. Umberger faces the crowd as he celebrates his goal against the Montreal Canadiens during the first period of Game 5 second round NHL Stanley Cup playoffs Saturday, May 3, 2008 in Montreal, Canada.
(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)


Carey Price #31 of the Montreal Canadiens gets his stick into the face of Mike Richards #18 of the Philadelphia Flyers as he tries to get up from inside the net during Game Five of the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2008 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs on May 3, 2008 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.
(Photo by Phillip MacCallum/Getty Images)


Martin Biron #43 of the Philadelphia Flyers scrambles in his crease for a loose puck during Game Five of the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2008 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Montreal Canadiens on May 3, 2008 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Montreal Canadiens 6-4 winning the series four games to one.
(Photo by Phillip MacCallum/Getty Images)


Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price, left, congratulates his Philadelphia Flyers counterpart Martin Biron following the Flyers' victory in Game 5 second round NHL Stanley Cup hockey playoffs Saturday, May 3, 2008, in Montreal. The Flyers beat the Canadiens 6-4 to win the best-of-seven series 4-1 and move on to the next round.
(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)

[Barmy Army]

You ask the Habs to do one thing. I really can't stand the Flyers