The Sens take an another

The Ottawa Senators have taken a serious option on the series with a 4-3 win in the second overtime period. With about 10 seconds left to play, the Senators were coasting a win, but Buffalo's Daniel Brière had other plans and scored the tying goal that sent the two teams into overtime. I question that goal, if you look at the play before Brière scored, a Buffalo player was in Emery's crease and had made contact, if the rules are applied right, that should not be a goal.

Again officiating will be put in question, both referee's called some doubtful penalties on both teams. Since his team won, Bryan Murray will not make a case of it, but will surely bring it to the officials attention before game time tomorrow night.

Even down 0-2 early in the game, the Senators did not panic, they got back to work and took over the game and came back with three unanswered goals. Not withstanding Brière's goal late in the game, the Sabres lost the game by their own fault, too many penalties in the second period.

For the first time in a long time, the Ottawa Senators have won the first two games of a series. So an another monkey on their backs has vanished in this playoff year. During the game, an interesting stat was shown, that teams that have taken a 2-0 lead in a series, have won 87% of them, this does not look to well for the Sabres and their fans, espacially that Ottawa has only lost one game at home since the beginning of the playoffs.

Face-offs have been pretty even so far in this series. Ottawa has won 19 of the 37 in Buffalo's Zone. Buffalo has won 25 of the 46 in Ottawa's zone. Ottawa has a slight edge in neutral zone face-offs, 24-22.

Echos from the Game

Bucky Gleason of the Buffalo News, mentions that the Sabres could use a gut check before flying to Ottawa for games 3 and 4, if they don't, to dust off the golf clubs. Complete story here.

Bryan Murray had this to say to Ottawa Sun's, Bruce Garrioch.
"I said that to them before the fifth period: 'We've shown character, keep working hard and something will happen'," said Ottawa coach Bryan Murray. "Definitely a big character effort tonight. I thought we hung tough. Our guys were positive and ready to go."