(Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images) TORONTO - Carter Hart made 27 saves, Joel Farabee scored 16 seconds after Montreal tied it, and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Canadiens 2-1 on Wednesday night in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.Ivan Provorov also scored for the Flyers.
Shea Weber scored for the Canadiens, and Carey Price stopped 29 shots.Montreal, the final club in the NHL’s 24-team restart, stunned the Pittsburgh Penguins — who had the NHL’s seventh-best record when the schedule was halted because of the COVID-19 pandemic — 3-1 in the best-of-five qualifying round to book a place in the 16-slot playoff bracket.Philadelphia sat fourth of four teams vying for the No.