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Live NHL Hockey Flyers vs Canadiens

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PHILADELPHIA - If the Montreal Canadiens are to continue their unlikely run in the Stanley Cup playoffs, they want to wear down the Philadelphia Flyers top-four defencemen, move the puck swiftly out of their own end and win the special teams battle.

The Flyers' top-four defenders - Chris Pronger, Kimmo Timonen, Braydon Coburn and Matt Carle - each average more than 24 minutes of ice time in the playoffs. Pronger has played a team-leading 29 minutes and 39 seconds.

Because Pronger and company play so much, the Canadiens will try and chip the puck past the Flyers' defence as much as possible and make the Flyers blue-liners work as much as possible.

In their own end of the rink, Montreal wants to move the puck smartly and efficiently out of their end in order to avoid Philadelphia's physical forecheck.

"I think they will be a more physical team [than Washington and Pittsburgh]," Canadiens forward Tom Pyatt said. "They will finish their checks. But we plan to use our speed and get them running around and tire them out."

Continue at: CBC.ca