Montreal: Michael Leighton recorded his third shutout in four games as the Philadelphia Flyers pushed the Montreal Canadiens to the brink of elimination from the Eastern conference final with a 3-0 win on Saturday.

With the Flyers taking a 3-1 lead, the best-of-seven series now shifts back to Philadelphia where they can clinch a spot in the Stanley Cup finals with a Game Five win.

"We'll let this go, come in [Tuesday], get the game plan," Canadiens' Scott Gomez told reporters. "These playoffs, who knows what's going to happen. We've been in this situation before.

"We've just got to go win the next one, there's nothing else to say. We're going to have to be at our best to beat these guys at their home."

The Canadiens will not be waving the white flag having already fought back from 3-1 down this post-season, rallying to beat the top seeded Washington Capitals in the opening round.

The Flyers will be keenly aware the job is not yet finished, earning a line in the NHL record books in the conference semi-finals against the Boston Bruins when they became just the third team to fight back from a 3-0 deficit to win a series.

Big save

In a post-season rich with Cinderella storylines, Leighton's may be the best of all with the journeyman waiver-wire pick-up coming off the bench to notch three shutouts in the conference finals.

After being pounded 5-1 by Montreal in Game Three Leighton responded with an air-tight effort stopping all 17 shots he faced.

While Leighton came through with the big save when needed he was not overworked, particularly in the second period when the Canadiens could manage just one shot on the Flyers netminder.

"The win to me counts more, even if they had of scored on me at the end that's fine," said the 29-year-old Leighton, who was rescued from the waiver wire four times since 2006 and returned to Philadelphia in December as the Flyers backup.

"Shutouts don't win championships, we just have to keep playing the way we played tonight and we'll be fine."

While the Canadiens wilted in the second period, the Flyers sprung to life, outshooting Montreal 13-1 and scoring twice.

Claude Giroux opened the scoring when he took a pass in the neutral zone and raced down the wing, then sliced across the slot and flipped the puck over Jaroslav Halak to silence the capacity crowd at the Bell Centre.

Ville Leino added another before the end of the period, breaking in alone from the blueline and stick-handling the puck past Halak.