Game on!

It was a fierce battle in Montreal last night. The Flyers looked to be in control. At the half-game mark, the Flyers were up, 2-0 after goals from Umberger and Dowd. But the Canadiens pulled themselves together, scoring two goals in the second half of the second period, thus making it a tie game. A nice snapshot from Andrei Kostitsyn made it 1-2 and Alexei Kovalev scored a shorthanded tip-in making it 2-2. After just 19 seconds in the third, Jeoffry Lupul made it 3-2 Flyers and with just 19 seconds to go, Kovalev scored in PP. And 48 seconds in to first OT, Tom Kostopolous scored the winner after banging in a rebound of his on first shot.

1-0 Canadiens, and things are off to a start I'd been expecting. What I didn't expect, was that the Flyers would control the game the way they did in the first half of the match. Now, the Canadiens has a bit of a momentum going on, having made that comeback.

We also got to see the same amount of goals between the Red Wings and the Avs last night. And it was the home team who scored the most, 4-3 Red Wings. But this one didn't go to OT. When Johan Franzen made it 4-1 in the beginning of the second period, many thought the game was over. But the Avs battled and scored two before the end of the period. The Wings was the better team, though, outshooting the Avs: 36-21. The result did not reflect the game. The Wings should have won this by a wider margin. Except for the amazing save by Osgood with seconds to go, the Avs weren't really close to tie it up. 1-0 Wings.