Canadiens topple Flyers, first career multipoint game for Ylonen

Jake Allen made 24 saves and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-2 in a game between two of the Eastern Conference’s worst teams on Friday night.

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Finland international Jesse Ylonen had a goal and an assist for his first career multipoint game and Chris Tierney, David Savard, Josh Anderson and Nick Suzuki also scored for Montreal, which followed up Tuesday’s impressive win over New Jersey with another solid performance.

“I think we were very organized for the whole game,” Ylonen said. “We played a very mature game, and even when we got the lead, we still kept doing the same thing, keeping it simple. So I think it was very good.”

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Montreal, who improved to 11-15-3 on the road, pulled within two points of the Flyers, who have 56. Only Columbus, with 41 points, has less in the conference.

“It was one of our best games of the year,” Anderson said.

“We were really balanced tonight and it showed. When everybody’s in the right spot, it’s easy to play like that. It just looked like everybody was connected.”

Owen Tippett and Ivan Provorov scored for Philadelphia with leading scorer Travis Konecny (upper body) missing his second straight game. Carter Hart made 26 saves

The Flyers, who dropped to 11-15-3 at home, have lost seven of nine since the All-Star break.

“As a group, we were sluggish,” Flyers coach John Tortorella said.

The Canadiens play their second of a back-to-back at Ottawa Senators while the Flyers play the second of a back-to-back at New Jersey Devils on Saturday night.