Boston Herald

Weber, Habs top Flyers

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When the Canadiens stunningly dealt flashy P.K. Subban to Nashville for steady Shea Weber in June, Montreal fans acted with outrage. Slowly, they seem to be accepting it. A 5-0-1 start — engineered by the 31-year-old Weber — has something to do with it.

Weber scored Montreal’s first goal and Brendan Gallagher tipped in the winner with 6:52 seconds left as the Canadiens outlasted the Flyers, 3-1, last night in Montreal.

Carey Price made 31 saves for the Habs, who are the only NHL team without a regulation loss.

Four seconds after a tripping penalty on Sean Couturier, Gallagher tipped in Alexander Radulov’s point drive to snap a 1-1 tie. The Flyers’ penalty kill had been 3-for-3 before Gallagher’s goal. Radulov (three points) iced the win with an empty-net goal with 63 seconds remaining.

The Flyers wasted a strong outing from goalie Steve Mason, who now has a 4-1 career record against the Canadiens.

Since 2010-11, the Flyers are 12-6-3 against the Canadiens, with all six regulation losses in Montreal.

Weber scored on a point drive that changed directions after it deflected off Brayden Schenn’s stick, giving Montreal a 1-0 secondperi­od lead. Weber, whose shot shattered Schenn’s stick, entered the night with five points in five games, along with a plus-8 rating.

About seven minutes later, Jake Voracek tipped in Claude Giroux’s drive to knot the score at 1-all. It was Voracek’s third goal in six games. Last season, he didn’t score his third goal until the 33rd game.

Mason made 11 secondperi­od saves.

Mason, who struggled on the road last season and in his first two appearance­s this year, got his third straight start. He was coming off a solid performanc­e in Saturday’s 6-3 comeback win against Carolina.

Wayne Simmonds leveled Montreal’s Andrei Markov with a cross check, drawing the fans’ ire when no penalty was called. Markov went face-first into the boards, and Simmonds might have a hearing with the NHL disciplina­ry czars.

The Flyers have already had three players — Brayden Schenn, Radko Gudas, and Dale Weise — miss games because of suspension­s this season.

Flames 3, Blackhawks 2 — Kris Versteeg scored the lone goal of the shootout in the seventh round as Calgary won in Chicago for its second victory this season.

Versteeg, formerly with the Blackhawks, faked Corey Crawford and connected on a wrist shot.

Sam Bennett and Sean Monahan scored in regulation for Calgary, which snapped a two-game losing streak.

Patrick Kane and Brian Campbell connected in regulation for Chicago.

Brian Elliott made 31 saves through overtime and blocked all seven in the shootout to earn his first win with Calgary after three losses.

Elsewhere in the NHL — Buffalo Sabres starting goalie Robin Lehner is sidelined with an illness, which means backup Anders Nilsson will make his season debut tonight at Philadelph­ia. Coach Dan Bylsma said Lehner was “feeling under the weather” and was not scheduled to travel with the team. Buffalo filled the backup spot by promoting Linus Ullmark from AHL Rochester.

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