They were due for a stinker.

• Pat Hickey's game story

• Quotes from the room

• About last night ...

• Pierre Ladouceur's game analysis

• Hickey grades the team at the quarter-pole

• Hickey and Jean-François Chaumont grade the team for Eyes on the Prize (which should be Eyes on the Price)

Canadiens' Maxim Lapierre, who scored twice Monday night, gets off a shot on Flyers goalie Brian Boucher.
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Preview | Matchups | Monday's NHL schedule | Boone's Game Blog, Quick hits and About last night ... | Stubbs on Twitter | Flyers at the quarter-pole

• PREGAME AUDIO: Jacques Martin | Michael Cammalleri | Yannick Weber | Peter Laviolette
• POSTGAME AUDIO: Martin | Cammalleri | Price | Plekanec | Subban | Lapierre

• At a Glance: The Canadiens rolled to a 2-0 first-period lead Monday night at the Well Fargo Center, then pretty much forgot about playing for most of the rest of the night, surrendering three unanswered goals to the Philadelphia Flyers in a 3-2 loss.

• Key Moments: The forecast fireworks involving P.K. Subban and Mike Richards naturally didn't materialize. Subban seemed a little off his game, perhaps the result of the circus of the past week. Otherwise, two goals by Maxim Lapierre and a sensational performance by goaltender Carey Price, who made 41 saves in all, were wasted.

• What It Means: Consider it tasty revenge for the Flyers (14-6-2), who lost to the Habs 3-0 last week in Montreal. The Canadiens, now 13-7-1, came into the game having won six of their most recent seven on the road.

• What's Next: The Habs chartered home immediately after the game. They’re home to Los Angeles on Wednesday, in Atlanta on Friday then back to the Bell Centre on Saturday against Buffalo.

Some reading as we count down to the game in Philadelphia

• Price shares the laurels – Dave Stubbs

• Red Fisher on the W over Toronto

• Red on Guy Lafleur

• Keep your head up, P.K.: Ottawa Citizen's Wayne Scanlan

• François Gagnon on P.K. facing the Flyers and Bruce Dowbiggin on Subban

• Réjean Tremblay on Pat Burns

• NHLPA's player of the week (won't spoil the surprise)

Corey Perry's 200-foot own-goal

The funeral service for the late Pat Burns will be held Monday, Nov. 29 at 2:30 pm at Montreal's Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, 1085 rue de la Cathédrale. A release from the New Jersey Devils says that Pat's family will receive condolences beginning at 1:30 pm.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent in Pat's memory to Maison Aube-Lumière, 220 rue Kennedy nord, Sherbrooke, QC J1E 2E7.

From our friend Rick Moffat of CJAD Radio-800, give a listen to this wonderful piece combining the voices of Pat Burns with Carey Price and former Burns-coached players Hal Gill, with Toronto, and Brian Gionta and Scott Gomez, with New Jersey.

Robert Rice (SeriousFan09) compiles his weekly look at Canadiens prospects.

The Three Stars

1. RW Max Pacioretty runs away with the 1st Star honours on his 22nd birthday. After being held off the scoresheet against the Toronto Marlies on Tuesday night, Pacioretty score four goals and three assists in a three game in three night schedule for his team from Friday to Sunday. On Friday night, he would have two assists against the Rochester Americans, and his second assist would help set up what would turn out to be the game-winning goal. On Saturday afternoon, he recorded a natural hat trick that would allow the Bulldogs to get a point from what became a 4-3 loss for the Bulldogs in the shootout, Pacioretty was also the only Bulldog to score in the shootout. To round out his week, Pacioretty scored the initial go-ahead goal for Hamilton and than had a hand in burying the dagger on an unselfish pass to teammate JT Wyman who got an empty net goal to seal a 3-1 win for the Bulldogs. Pacioretty is now 10th overall in league scoring in the AHL with eight goals and thirteen assists.

2. D Alexei Yemelin has his best week in the KHL to date with three goals in three games with his KHL club Ak Bars Kazan. It was Yemelin’s first three-game point streak of the season and his best career streak in regular season play. Yemelin had his first game-winning goal of the season of the season as well with his 2nd goal of the week against KHL team Severstal Cherepovets.  He also showed a bit of his temperamental side, racking 18 PIM in his final game of the week, he had 20 PIM total for his week. He is 15th overall in scoring by a defencemen in the KHL and tied for 6th overall in goals by a defencemen.

3. G Karri Ramo continues to be the story of the Habs goaltending prospects so far this season, he has only lost one game in his last eleven starts now with his KHL club Avangard Omsk and had a perfect threee-win week, including a shutout. Ramo had a masterful week in nets that saw his Goals Against Average sit at a flat 2.00 and held up a save percentage of .930. He is 6th overall in the KHL in Goals Against Average and tied for 1st overall for wins.

And a Brendan Gallagher video:

And then a plane ride to Philadelphia this afternoon.

Should be a happy group.

• Quotes from the room

• About last night ...

• Pierre Ladouceur on Plekanec and Gorges

• Bruce Arthur on a fitting tribute to Pat Burns

• Damien Cox on an emotional night

Canadiens goalie Carey Price notched his fourth shutout of the season, a 30-save, 2-0 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night at the Bell Centre. Here's Price talking about the effort. See below for clips of Brian Gionta and Jeff Halpern.

The image of Pat Burns is projected onto Bell Centre ice Saturday during the Canadiens' pregame tribute to their late coach.
Shaun Best, Reuters

Preview | Matchups | Saturday's NHL schedule | Boone's Game Blog, Quick hits and About last night ... | Stubbs on Twitter

• POSTGAME AUDIO: Carey Price | Brian Gionta | Jeff Halpern | Jacques Martin
• PREGAME VIDEO: Bob Cole on Pat Burns; Henri Richard
• POSTGAME VIDEO: Carey Price, Brian Gionta, Jeff Halpern

PAT HICKEY
The Gazette

Veteran Hockey Night in Canada play-by-play voice Bob Cole relates to Habs Inside/Out's Dave Stubbs a few of his cherished memories of the late Pat Burns. Cole spoke in the Bell Centre's HNIC broadcast booth shortly before warmup for tonight's Canadiens-Toronto Maple Leafs game.

Scroll down for two clips of Canadiens legend Henri Richard talking about his team and its enduring global popularity, a clip of the dramatic moment of silence for Pat Burns and, postgame, comment from the Canadiens' dressing room.

• PRE-GAME AUDIO: Jacques Martin in English and French | Brian Gionta | Hal Gill | Kirk Muller

Hamilton callup Yannick Weber will see action tonight with linemates Benoit Pouliot and Jeff Halpern, replacing Mathieu Darche in the Canadiens lineup for the game vs. the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Carey Price gets the start in goal, his 19th in 20 Canadiens games. Think head coach Jacques Martin misses last year's ubiquitous question, "Who's your goalie tomorrow, Jacques?"

The Canadiens will offer a pregame tribute to late coach Pat Burns just after 7 pm ET. It will be telecast live by Hockey Night in Canada and RDS.

Hockey Night will have memories of Burns to share throughout their telecast, including a special salute by Don Cherry in Coach's Corner with Ron MacLean during the first intermission. HNIC play-by-play voice Bob Cole, who called most of Burns's games behind the benches of the Canadiens and Maple Leafs, will have his own memories to share.

In French, RDS will do its usual excellent job with interviews and video remembrances.

Canadiens goaler George Hainsworth, who followed Georges Vézina into the Montreal net.
James Rice Studios

We're going to serve up the occasional bit of bizarre Canadiens historical fact, simply because the writer needs a bit more of a life. To begin:

Today in 1928, the first game was played in Boston Garden, the Canadiens beating the hometown Bruins 1-0. The win came on the strength of the shutout of Montreal goaltender George Hainsworth, who replaced the late Georges Vézina on the Habs roster.

Hainsworth would record 22 shutouts that season to go along with his seven losses and 15 ties, playing all 44 Habs games that season. So in every game that Hainsworth gave up even a single goal, he didn't win. For Hainsworth, a future Hall of Famer, to win a game, he needed a shutout.

The Bruins laughed last that season, sweeping the Habs 3-0 in a playoff semifinal and going on to beat the New York Rangers in a two-game Stanley Cup final.

Montreal, which finished first in the NHL's Canadian Division, had 71 goals for, fifth-best in the 10-team league; their 43 goals-against were the NHL's best.

• Red Fisher's piece

• Gazette photo gallery

• Scott Morrison on Burns

• Pierre Durocher on a hard man with a soft heart

• François Gagnon shares happy memories

• A cop and a coach

• Stu Hackel's SI story and a SI feature from the vaults

• Pierre LeBrun on "one of a kind"

Michael Farber, now of Sports Illustrated but then of The Gazette, published this profile on June 4, 1988 of then-Canadiens coach Pat Burns.

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The staircase to the apartment at 819 Laporte Ave. goes straight up. The stairs are purposeful, direct stairs, stairs that get you where you want to go, not like the winding, meandering outdoor staircases in nearby Griffintown. This is St. Henri, a direct kind of place. This is the first home of Pat Burns, a direct kind of man.

"Somewhere on these stairs," Burns said, "I'll bet my name is still carved."

Denis Brodeur, NHLI via Getty Images

Other coaches who have won the Jack Adams Trophy with three different teams:

Pat Burns did not live to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Shameful.

• The Canadiens' statement:

The Canadiens organization was deeply saddened to learn that former head coach Pat Burns lost his long and courageous battle against cancer.

Burns, 58, died surrounded by his family at La Maison Aube-Lumière in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Born on April 4, 1952 in Montreal’s St-Henri borough, Pat Burns played his way through the minor hockey ranks earning a brief stint with the London Knights of the OHL, before embarking on a career with the Gatineau police force. His passion for the game kept him in hockey as a minor hockey coach in the Outaouais area, and in 1983-84 he was called upon to coach the Hull Olympiques of the QMJHL where he served for four seasons, including a trip to the Memorial Cup in 1986 after posting a remarkable 54-18-0 regular season record.

Burns made his debut with the Montreal Canadiens’ organization in 1987 as head coach of the franchise’s main affiliate Sherbrooke Canadiens. He was promoted to the position of Montreal’s head coach after a single season in the AHL. In his first season behind the Habs’ bench, Burns led his troops to the Stanley Cup finals after a regular season record of 53-18-9 and his first Jack Adams award as Coach of the Year.

In 1992-93, following four seasons with the Canadiens, Burns took on the coaching duties with the Toronto Maple Leafs, leading the team to the Conference championship and earning his second Jack Adams award after leading the Leafs to a franchise-record 32-point improvement. Following a one-year hiatus in 1996-97, Burns is hired as head coach of the Boston Bruins and at the end of his first season he becomes the first head coach in NHL history to win three Jack Adams Awards. After four seasons in Boston, Burns accepts an offer to coach the New Jersey Devils in 2002-03 posting a .622 winning percentage and leading them to the Stanley Cup over the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in a thrilling 7-game series.

Through his 15-season career as head coach in the NHL, only once did Pat Burns miss the playoffs (1999-2000 with the Bruins) while at the helm of his team. His overall numbers speak volumes of his character and dedication. Burns won 501 of the 1,019 games he coached, losing only 353 and tying 165 games. His record in the playoffs stands at 78 wins and 71 losses in 149 games.

Pat Burns is survived by his beloved wife Line, his daughter, Maureen and son Jason.