The only other goaltender to do it was Jeff Hackett during the 2003-04 season. Overall, he has a scoreless streak of 132:05.
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“The more I play, the better I feel and the more confident I get”, Neuvirth said. “It’s been a true team effort, the whole system”. “I was able to see [the Blackhawks’] season opener and banner-raising ceremony”.
The Bruins raced to a 5-0 lead by the second period and cruised from there, ending a three-game slide.
LaBarbera served as the backup goalie to Michal Neuvirth the last two games after usual starter Steve Mason left the team due to “a family matter”.
ABOUT THE FLYERS (1-1-1): Brayden Schenn scored the lone goal on Monday and has two of his team’s four goals, but has traditionally struggled versus Chicago. “We have known we have a couple of days off coming up here”. The penalty killing was exceptional, going 6-for-6 including a 23-second five-on-three kill. The first-year Flyers coach isn’t going to go out of his way, he said. Afterwards, he credited it to strong communication with his teammates on the ice. “It was four guys [working] together”.
This game was an absolute train wreck for the defending Stanley Cup Champions.
Philadelphia has gone under in eight of the last 10 not because of a great defense, but because they have trouble scoring goals.
“In that situation, that’s a momentum, game-changing type of save”, Flyers coach Dave Hakstol said. He was probably the best offensive defenseman and defensive defensemen at the same time.
Later in the period, the Flyers’ efforts paid off again. Shot attempts were 22-14 Flyers.
Just ask Florida and Chicago.
Simmonds hopes to see something closer to his accustomed ice time against the Blackhawks.
Zdeno Chara tallied two assists, his first and second of the season.
“I was just trying to stay patient and wait for him to do the first move”, he said.
“You try things”, Quenneville said.
The Blackhawks had their chances and had five power plays themselves, but they couldn’t capitalize on anything. Neuvirth patiently waited for the Blackhawks star to make the first move and stoned him with a right pad save.
The goal seemed to take a weight off for the Flyers and put the Blackhawks on their heels. From the doorstep, Giroux buried the puck past Crawford. Last year, it took Giroux 36 home games to score an even-strength goal. Though Timonen never served as captain with the Flyers, his words carried heft inside and outside the locker room. Chicago pressured heavily throughout the final 20 minutes and Philadelphia had to kill off three penalties. “They’re doing a lot of the right things”. We weren’t winning the puck races, we weren’t winning the battles – all those little details you hear us talk about.
In the opening minute of the period, Raffl limped up the tunnel after awkwardly blocking a Niklas Hjalmarsson point shot. Neuvirth was a big reason for that. Perhaps his best was a chest save on Hossa with 11:22 left in the period.
“We had trouble with penalties in the second”, Crawford said.
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Marc Methot, Milan Michalek, Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Mike Hoffman also scored to help Ottawa improve to a 3-0 record on the road for the first time since 2007-08.
