from Stu Cowan of the Montreal Gazette,

The Canadiens were coming off a 4-3 shootout loss to the Seattle Kraken on Saturday at the Bell Centre and flew to Philadelphia after the game, arriving in the wee hours of the morning.

“I think the way we’re wired as humans I feel like when it gets pretty hard I think we’re told to quit,” St. Louis said. “I think our brain is telling us that it’s OK … you got everything against you right now, you probably should quit right now. And I think that’s the message today. It’s you got to fight what your brain’s telling you because it’s easy to take the easy way out. Showed up late, back-to-back, if you listen to your brain we have no chance tonight.”

The Canadiens didn’t listen to their brains — but they are definitely listening to their new head coach.

After fighting back from a 3-1 deficit in the third period against the Kraken to force overtime and the shootout, the Canadiens were trailing 3-2 to the Flyers when Rem Pitlick scored short-handed with 53 seconds left on the clock to force overtime. Cole Caufield scored the winning goal on a wicked slapshot at 2:10 of OT as the Canadiens earned three out of a possible four points on a busy weekend. Nick Suzuki scored the other two goals for the Canadiens.

The Canadiens are now 8-5-1 since St. Louis took over from Dominique Ducharme.

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