Good article on Flyers/Montreal and how they matched up in game 1.
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=529419
A snippet:
<<<Things weren't much better when Montreal gained control of the puck.
In the attacking zone, Philadelphia's towers of power on the blue line -- Chris Pronger and Braydon Coburn -- made life miserable for Montreal's fleet of smaller, skilled forwards. Pronger is 6-foot-6 and 220 pounds with a legendary and well-chronicled mean streak. Coburn, meanwhile, is 6-5 and 220 pounds of ill intent.
Just the specter of those two players appeared to cause pause among the Canadiens. Both Dominic Moore and Gionta talked about the forecheck being disjointed or a step late at times.
"Too many little dangles at the blue line instead of getting back to basics," is the way forward Mathieu Darche explained it. "We weren't doing that against Pittsburgh or Washington because we told ourselves with the firepower they've got, they'll bite us. Philly, you look at their lineup, personally I think they have as much firepower as those teams."
Even when Montreal got the puck deep, the results were not usually pretty.
"We didn't hold it down their end," Metropolit told NHL.com. "We tried to rush plays and that is what hurt us. There was no sustained pressure at all and we know we have to get back to that.
On Sunday, Gionta (5-7, 173), Michael Cammalleri (5-9, 182), Tomas Plekanec (5-11, 198) and Scott Gomez (5-11, 202) -- the team's top four scorers -- were punished almost every time they made a foray on the forecheck or tried to establish position in front of goalie Michael Leighton.
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