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April 23, 2010, Friday
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THE Boston Bruins came from behind to beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 in the second period of overtime on Wednesday to take a 3-1 lead in their Eastern Conference playoff series.
Right wing Miroslav Satan tipped in the winning goal on a powerplay after the Sabres were found to have too many players on the ice.
The best-of-seven series will continue in Buffalo tomorrow.
"That's a good feeling and you know the series is not done," said Satan after the frenetic contest in which players were pulled for engaging in a punch-up.
"The last game is always the toughest and you know they are going to be desperate at home. We're just going to see probably what we saw today, more of it. It'll be a very even game and the series will continue."
Elsewhere in the National Hockey League, Washington pulled away late to beat Montreal 6-3 and take a 3-1 lead in their series while Vancouver scored four times in a wild third period to beat Los Angeles and even their series 2-2.
In Boston, the Sabres stole the early running, scoring just two minutes into the first period through left wing Tim Kennedy, before Steve Montador made it 2-0 seven minutes into the second.
The scoreless Bruins came out of the locker room pumped up with aggression for the third, however, and were rewarded when Bruins center David Krejci turned the momentum with a goal two minutes in.
Patrice Bergeron then scored another 4-1/2 minutes later to level the score at 2-2.
"We needed to have a little bit more urgency," Bruins head coach Claude Julien told reporters.
Played hard
"We played a team that played extremely well tonight, we played a team that played desperate, that played hard. And if we were going to win this game we needed to show a little more urgency. The guys came out and we did the job." Sabres defenseman Craig Rivet and Bruins left wing Milan Lucic were pulled off the ice for five minutes each in the second period after a punching match.
In Montreal, Alex Ovechkin broke a tie with 8:51 left with his second goal of the game.
The Russian opened the scoring in the first period with Washington's first powerplay goal of the series.
Michael Cammalleri and Brian Gionta scored to put the Canadiens ahead, before Mike Knuble tied it 2-2 with just 6.3 seconds left in the second period.
Ovechkin added his second of the game and fourth in three games in the third to put Washington up 3-2. Jason Chimera made it 4-2 less than a minute later. The Capitals got empty-net goals from Knuble with 2:27 left and Nicklas Backstrom with 10 seconds remaining, with Dominic Moore netting for Montreal in between.
Semyon Varlamov made 36 saves to win his third in a row for Washington. Carey Price stopped 32 shots in his first start of the series for Montreal.
Game 5 is in Washington tomorrow.
In Los Angeles, Henrik Sedin, Mikael Samuelsson, Sami Salo and Ryan Kesler all scored in the final 12:31 for the Canucks, who rallied from three one-goal deficits and avoided falling to a 1-3 series deficit.
Salo put Vancouver ahead with 7:44 left, but Wayne Simmonds soon answered for Los Angeles. Sedin then got loose on a rush, and the NHL scoring champion put his first goal of the series past Kings goalie Jonathan Quick.
Goalkeeper Roberto Luongo made 22 saves, and Daniel Sedin had three assists to help the Canucks win despite yielding two more powerplay goals to the Kings.
Christian Ehrhoff and Pavol Demitra also scored for Vancouver. Drew Doughty, Dustin Brown and Anze Kopitar added goals for Los Angeles.
Game 5 is in Vancouver tomorrow.
Right wing Miroslav Satan tipped in the winning goal on a powerplay after the Sabres were found to have too many players on the ice.
The best-of-seven series will continue in Buffalo tomorrow.
"That's a good feeling and you know the series is not done," said Satan after the frenetic contest in which players were pulled for engaging in a punch-up.
"The last game is always the toughest and you know they are going to be desperate at home. We're just going to see probably what we saw today, more of it. It'll be a very even game and the series will continue."
Elsewhere in the National Hockey League, Washington pulled away late to beat Montreal 6-3 and take a 3-1 lead in their series while Vancouver scored four times in a wild third period to beat Los Angeles and even their series 2-2.
In Boston, the Sabres stole the early running, scoring just two minutes into the first period through left wing Tim Kennedy, before Steve Montador made it 2-0 seven minutes into the second.
The scoreless Bruins came out of the locker room pumped up with aggression for the third, however, and were rewarded when Bruins center David Krejci turned the momentum with a goal two minutes in.
Patrice Bergeron then scored another 4-1/2 minutes later to level the score at 2-2.
"We needed to have a little bit more urgency," Bruins head coach Claude Julien told reporters.
Played hard
"We played a team that played extremely well tonight, we played a team that played desperate, that played hard. And if we were going to win this game we needed to show a little more urgency. The guys came out and we did the job." Sabres defenseman Craig Rivet and Bruins left wing Milan Lucic were pulled off the ice for five minutes each in the second period after a punching match.
In Montreal, Alex Ovechkin broke a tie with 8:51 left with his second goal of the game.
The Russian opened the scoring in the first period with Washington's first powerplay goal of the series.
Michael Cammalleri and Brian Gionta scored to put the Canadiens ahead, before Mike Knuble tied it 2-2 with just 6.3 seconds left in the second period.
Ovechkin added his second of the game and fourth in three games in the third to put Washington up 3-2. Jason Chimera made it 4-2 less than a minute later. The Capitals got empty-net goals from Knuble with 2:27 left and Nicklas Backstrom with 10 seconds remaining, with Dominic Moore netting for Montreal in between.
Semyon Varlamov made 36 saves to win his third in a row for Washington. Carey Price stopped 32 shots in his first start of the series for Montreal.
Game 5 is in Washington tomorrow.
In Los Angeles, Henrik Sedin, Mikael Samuelsson, Sami Salo and Ryan Kesler all scored in the final 12:31 for the Canucks, who rallied from three one-goal deficits and avoided falling to a 1-3 series deficit.
Salo put Vancouver ahead with 7:44 left, but Wayne Simmonds soon answered for Los Angeles. Sedin then got loose on a rush, and the NHL scoring champion put his first goal of the series past Kings goalie Jonathan Quick.
Goalkeeper Roberto Luongo made 22 saves, and Daniel Sedin had three assists to help the Canucks win despite yielding two more powerplay goals to the Kings.
Christian Ehrhoff and Pavol Demitra also scored for Vancouver. Drew Doughty, Dustin Brown and Anze Kopitar added goals for Los Angeles.
Game 5 is in Vancouver tomorrow.
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