Andrei Meszaros scored 8:08 into the third, Matt Carle had three assists and the Flyers extended their winning streak to seven with a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night.
Maxime Talbot, Harry Zolnierczyk and Wayne Simmonds also scored for the Flyers in the victory tempered by news that captain Chris Pronger will miss the rest of the regular season and playoffs because of severe post-concussion syndrome.
Second goalie Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 28 shots for the Orange and Black, which blew 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 leads in the second period.
The Flyers have won nine of 10 and are first overall in the Eastern Conference with 43 points, two ahead of Boston and a point behind Minnesota for the overall NHL lead.
In addition to learning they had lost Pronger for the rest of the season, the Flyers also are without star forward Claude Giroux, the NHL scoring leader with 39 points. He missed his second game in a row and is out indefinitely with a concussion after taking an inadvertent knee to the head from Simmonds on Saturday.
The Flyers (20-7-3) face the Bruins Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center.
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