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MONTREAL — Michel Therrien liked what he saw from the Montreal Canadiens’ power play, but he’s going to keep tinkering with it.

Looking to jump-start Montreal’s stalled power play, Therrien shuffled some players around and that was the difference as the Canadiens defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 on Monday night to extend their winning streak to four games.

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The main change was putting forward Alexander Radulov on the point with Shea Weber on Montreal’s first power-play wave. That new strategy paid dividends in the third period when Brendan Gallagher tipped Radulov’s shot from the point past Steve Mason at 13:08 to break the 1-1 deadlock.

“We still need to work on it, we need a little more chemistry,” said Therrien. “It would have been too easy to go back to the old formula, but we wanted to stick with our four forwards and one defenceman, and they’re the ones who won it for us tonight.”

Therrien felt a change was necessary as the Canadiens came into the game 3 for 21 with the man advantage, 20th in the NHL.