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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- After facing 45 shots, Montreal goalie Jeff
Hackett felt lucky to have earned a draw.
The Canadiens' 3-3 tie Thursday night with Philadelphia snapped
their three-game losing streak and extended the Flyers' winless
stretch to six games.
|  | | In his first NHL game, Flyers goalie Roman Cechmanek came up big in overtime. |
Hackett was upset with himself for allowing a goal to Gino
Odjick that gave Philadelphia a short-lived 3-2 lead with 4:25 left
in the third period.
"It was a bad goal, a disappointing goal," Hackett said.
Odjick scored a rare goal with a backhander from inside the
right circle.
"I got caught up between going down and standing up," Hackett
said. "I didn't think he was going to shoot at the net and I
wasn't totally focused. It hit my stick. That's what happens when
you make mental errors and get caught."
It could have turned the game into a Canadiens loss, but Oleg
Petrov scored 1:12 later to salvage the tie. Petrov skated from the
right corner and fired the puck high over the glove side of goalie
Roman Cechmanek, who made his first NHL start.
Montreal coach Alain Vigneault was thrilled with Hackett's
performance.
"Our goaltender kept us in the game," he said. "When we came
in here we knew the Flyers would be ready. They had just been
embarrassed by Ottawa."
Eric Desjardins, who scored a power-play goal at 8:48 of the
third period, and Andy Delmore also scored for the Flyers, 0-4-2
since a season-opening win over Vancouver.
Desjardins found no consolation with the tie, especially after
the Flyers were beaten 6-1 at home by Ottawa on Tuesday night.
"We're not finding a way to get the win," the Philadelphia
captain said. "On defense we have a long way to go."
Rookie Andrei Markov and Trevor Linden each had a goal and an
assist for the Canadiens, who are winless on the road (0-3-1).
Both teams missed good scoring opportunities in overtime. The
Flyers outshot Montreal 7-4 but failed to capitalize on a power
play as Canadiens goaltender Jeff Hackett denied Rick Tocchet's
backhander from the doorstep. Cechmanek smothered shots by Petrov
and Craig Rivet in the last minute.
"I thought we played a strong, solid game," Philadelphia coach
Craig Ramsay said. "Cechmanek made some really key saves. In
overtime he made a couple of big stops, too."
Markov's first NHL goal gave Montreal a 2-1 lead at 8:00 of the
second period. With the Canadiens skating with a two-man advantage,
he scored on a slap shot from the right circle after taking a
cross-ice pass from Patrice Brisebois.
Delmore gave Philadelphia a 1-0 first-period lead, scoring while
the Flyers had a two-man advantage. Delmore threading a slap shot
through traffic from the top of the left circle.
Linden tied it at 1-1 with a power-play goal 27 seconds into the
second period. Brisebois shot wide of the net but the puck bounced
hard off the rear boards and Linden flipped it over Cechmanek.
Game notes
Brisebois, who had two assists, leads the Canadiens in
scoring with eight points. ... Cechmanek was a member of five Czech
Elite League championship teams and three Czech world championship
teams. ... Struggling goalie Brian Boucher, who led the NHL with a
1.91 goals-against average as a rookie last season, was given the
night off by the Flyers after allowing 21 goals and being yanked
twice in five starts. ... The Flyers have been outscored 19-8 in
their last four games and 12-3 in the first period this season. ...
Montreal's Dainius Zubrus, a former member of the Flyers, was
blanked after scoring five goals the past two games.
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Pittsburgh 3
Ottawa 3
Montreal 3
Philadelphia 3
Washington 5
New Jersey 2
Nashville 2
Detroit 1
St. Louis 7
Los Angeles 1
Toronto 4
Edmonton 1
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 Gino Odjick gives the Flyers the brief lead.
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