The Montreal Canadiens pulled out a victory over the Philadelphia Flyers, but Philly put up a fight. The Canadiens got a goal from Alex Kovalev with 28 sceonds left to tie the game at 3 and a score from Tom Kostopoulus 48 seconds into OT to propel them to a win on home ice.
In the West, Chris Osgood made a nice save with less than ten seconds to go that helped seal a 4-3 win for Detroit. Johan Franzen (his second of the night) was credited with the game-winner with a tally 1:13 into period 2. Avs goalie Jose Theodore was pulled after the Franzen score. He was then sent to the team hotel due to sickness.
Backup goaltender Peter Budaj stopped all 20 shots he faced in relief.
