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MONTREAL -- Feeling confident after a comeback win against the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday, the Philadelphia Flyers will face one of their toughest tests of the young season when they visit the Montreal Canadiens on Monday.The Flyers (2-2-1) found their offensive groove again with six goals in the win over the Hurricanes and are now averaging 3.8 goals per game. Montreal is averaging four goals, which leads the NHL.They have excellent team speed, especially their group of forwards, Flyers coach Dave Hakstol told the Philadelphia Inquirer of the Canadiens. They play with a lot of pace.Trailing 2-0 early in the second period on Saturday, the Flyers rallied for four straight before skating away with a 6-3 victory. While winger Jakub Voracek paced the offense with two goals and an assist, rookie defenseman Ivan Provorov came through with two key assists on goals that tied the game and provided Philadelphia with a lead it would never relinquish.It was a bounce-back night for the 19-year-old after some tough outings on both sides of the puck, helped along by a teammate just one year removed from freshman status.He was down after a few games, second-year defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere told CSNPhilly.com. I didnt really tell him much other than, Hey, weve got 79 more of these. I told him to keep his head up and hell get over it.Hes a hell of a player and sometimes you dont get all of the bounces. Hes a great player as you guys could see.The Canadiens extended their winning streak to three games with a 4-1 triumph over the Boston Bruins on Saturday night. But while names like Pacioretty, Radulov, Gallagher and Galchenyuk are the ones teams try to keep a close eye on, it was the unlikely sources who delivered on offense in the latest win.Philip Danault, Torrey Mitchell and Paul Byron joined Brendan Gallagher on the scoresheet, giving Montreal 13 different players who have scored this season.We need that, Canadiens coach Michel Therrien said after the game. We knew it was a character game, and it really was outstanding (against Boston).While Montreal is putting the puck in seemingly with ease, opponents havent been able to do the same at the other end. Back-up goaltender Al Montoya held the fort through the first three games and Carey Price looks like his old self in two appearances since returning from illness. The result is a league-best 1.60 goals-against average.Its been a tougher road for the Flyers in their own end, averaging 3.8 goals against. Netminders Steve Mason and Michal Neuvirth carry well-below average statistics into the week, with Masons 3.35 goals-against average and .882 save percentage holding a slight edge over Neuvirths 4.24 goals-against and .854 save percentage.If theres an area that could use improvement on Montreals end, its the power play. While the man advantage has looked better than years past under associate coach Kirk Mullers guidance, the team only connected three times on 21 opportunities, tied for sixth-most chances in the NHL.Former Canadiens forward Dale Weise wont get the chance to face his former team as he serves the second of a three-game suspension for a hit last week.The Flyers could have fresh legs coming into the line-up this week as defenseman Michael Del Zotto and forward Scott Laughton joined the team for practice on Sunday and will travel to Montreal and partake in the clubs morning skate. Both players have been on injured reserve since opening night.T.J. Hockenson Lions Jersey . 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Ryan Riess emerged with the title after a session in which he started behind, but used expert skill to gather the chips to his side amid the unpredictability of no-limit Texas Hold em. Riess put his final opponent Jay Farber all-in with an Ace-King.Junior middleweight titleholder Liam Smith is not Gennady Golovkin. He knows that. Trust him.He has heard and read the backlash from fans and media alike who have made it crystal clear in recent months that their preference is for lineal middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez to fight Golovkin, the unified middleweight titlist and one of boxings most fearsome fighters, and not Smith, a largely unknown fighter outside his native England.Alas, Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs), 26, of Mexico, vacated his alphabet middleweight title and elected to drop down to junior middleweight, where he and his Golden Boy Promotions handlers picked Smith as the next opponent with the shaky promise that the fight with Golovkin is on their radar for fall of 2017.So Alvarez will face Smith on Sept. 17 in the main event on an HBO PPV card at AT&T Stadium -- home of the Dallas Cowboys -- in Arlington, Texas, and the attempt to sell an event few are hyped for began in earnest with the kickoff news conference on Monday at the stadium.Im getting some backlash because the Canelo-GGG fight is not happening, Smith said in an interview with ESPN.com just before the news conference began. A lot of the American fans thought because of Canelos last fight that he might get the GGG fight next because of the things he said at the post-fight press conference.Indeed, after Alvarez spectacularly knocked out Amir Khan in their 155-pound catch weight fight for the middleweight title on May 7 in Las Vegas, Alvarez and promoter Oscar De La Hoya spoke aggressively about making the much-anticipated fight against Golovkin, only to later have Alvarez vacate the title, promise to fight GGG late next year and then sign to fight Smith.Canelo built up a lot of peoples hopes up and then, obviously, we know what happened, Smith said. He gave up the title and a lot of people were unhappy with him and now hes fighting me and a lot of people dont know me, but they will after Sept. 17.Canelo avoided Golovkin to go back to 154 and I think he made the mistake of going back at 154 and choosing me.Smith (23-0-1, 13 KOs) certainly came off as confident heading into his biggest fight against easily the best opponent of his career. Although he has made two title defenses, he has not exactly faced murders row. He won the vacant belt by seventh-round knockout of John Thompson in October and retained it against unknown opponents in Jimmy Kilrain Kelly by seventh-round knockout in December and by second-round KO of Predrag Radosevic on June 4.Im very excited to fight Canelo, Smith said. Hes the biggest name in boxing and this stadium just adds to the excitement. I will embrace this. Im not coming here in awe of Canelo. Im definitely coming to win.Smith went into the June 4 fight knowing it was likely he would get the fight with Alvarez as long as he won.I was asked if I would be interested and I said yes, of course, but I knew I had to win June 4, Smith said. If I didnt beat Radosevic there was no other big fight for me, so I concentrated on winning and noot thinking about Canelo.dddddddddddd. But Id be lying if I said it didnt excite me.The morning after he beat Radosevic, Smith said he woke up and called manager Matthew Macklin, the former longtime middleweight contender.I said, How close are we? There were little things to be finalized and confirmed, but the truth is I would have taken the fight with Canelo no matter what, Smith said. I wanted the big fight. I wanted either (Miguel) Cotto or Canelo and this one came first. I think Canelo is very good. He does lots of things very well, but he does things where we can have success. I do think hes been promoted and looked after very well. Hes had his matches picked very well.Smith claimed he is a big, strong junior middleweight, nothing like Alvarezs recent opponents, James Kirkland and Khan, both who have the reputation of having a soft chi. Both got blasted out by Alvarez.Alvarezs knockout of Kirkland in May 2015 was the ESPN.com knockout of the year. Khan, Smiths countryman, was a welterweight who moved up eight pounds to face Alvarez and paid the price when he got nailed with the first big punch of the fight in a leading 2016 KO of the year candidate.Kirkland and Khan are chinny fighters, Smith said. I am not like that. Canelo is coming down from 155 to 154 and I am a solid 154-pounder, not a small 154. Size wont make a difference in this fight. He is in for a shock. The more people see the build-up to this fight and the more people do their homework, theyll see.Im not just coming here for a payday. Im not an old guy at the end of my career looking for a payday. Ive got a title to keep. Im 27. Im not 32 or 35 on my way out. Ive got a style fans will like and Im coming here to win, and you will know it by my performance.Smith comes from a fighting family, with three brothers who are also quality pros: Callum is a top super middleweight contender, Paul twice fought for super middleweight world titles and Stephen is a junior lightweight contender who lost a world title fight earlier this year.Weve had some big nights in the family, but this night will trump them all, Liam Smith said.Alvarez has already beaten a few British fighters, including Khan, Matthew Hatton and Ryan Rhodes. Smith is not exactly looking to avenge their lossesb but hes thought about the fact that Alvarez has been successful against Brits.I dont want to be too disrespectful to those guys, but I feel I am a better fighter than those guys, he said. This is a totally different fight. Canelo knows that.And if Smith can pull off the victory, it will take its place in the pantheon of Great Britains biggest boxing victories.It would be huge, one of the biggest, Smith said. It would be the biggest one I can remember because we know how big of a name Canelo is at the moment. Floyd Mayweather is gone so he is the biggest name in the sport at the minute.Its a massive win for me when I get it. ' ' '