European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Mind Vajday 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 31 Sens win another one in Buffalo Ottawa takes 20 series advantage by John Wawrow the associated press Joseph Corvo never scored a bigger and the Ottawa senators have never been in such an advantageous Posi Tion in the believe these senators Are for Cor Vos bouncing shot skipped in at of the Sec Ond giving Ottawa a 43 Victory Over the stunned and suddenly silenced Buffalo sabres in game 2 of the Eastern conference finals on saturday the goal gave Ottawa a 20 series Lead head ing Home for games 3 and 4 on monday and and Marks the first time the Sena tors have won the first two games of a its obviously the biggest goal of my the defens Eman said of his second career play off just total elation when it went it was obviously just a great something ill always till be a difficult one to forget in the senators now have a prime Chance to and Vance to their first Stanley cup the senators overcame an Early 20 and rebounded after allowing Buffalo to Force overtime when coca Tain Daniel Briere scored with seconds we knew it want going to be these Guys won the presidents and have been great at Home All senators for Ward Jason Spezza but i think we had a quiet Confidence in Spezza had three his biggest was setting up Corvos when Spezza beat Chris Drury on a face off to the right of the Buffalo Spezza Drew the puck Back to the where Corvo took a step into the Middle and slapped in a Knuckles that one hopped in past Ryan a dirty puck off the slap a drop shot that catches the Miller its a Terri ble Way to end a the to seeded sabres continued their uncharacteristic stretch of inconsistent play Fol lowing a 52 loss on and they lost saturdays game by producing an unlikely first after going 400 in the regular season and 60 this postseason when holding a two goal Canadian Frank Ottawa defens Eman Joe celebrates with teammates Chris and Tom Preissing after scoring the Gam winning goal during the second overtime on Thomas Vanek and Jochen Hecht also scored for the who have never advanced after losing the first two Buffalo was ofor7 on the Power play and is ofor12 in the we have 24 hours to wrap our Heads around Miller if they can come in Here and steal some were definitely capable of tonight leave us feel ing too we should come out Buffalo did that saturday but main Tain its Early momentum after building a 20 Lead on rechts goal Back came the who outplayed the sabres Over the final two periods of regulation and appeared to take control when Redden capped a three goal rally by scoring on a onetime during a woman advantage with 16 seconds left in the Daniel Alfreds son and Mike Fisher also scored for the senators then limited the sabres to six shots through the first 19 minutes of the but pull the Victory out in Briere lifted fans in the foldout Arena to their feet when he tied the converting a Loose puck that dribbled to him at the right the puck got Loose after Tim Connolly shot from the left Circle deflected off defender Chris it was reminiscent of the overtime forcing goal Drury scored with seconds left in but Falos 21 Victory Over the new York rangers in game 5 of their second round Ottawa goalie Ray Emery refused to get Down when he allowed the first two goals on five shots or after Briere there was no were definitely Tough enough to play that defensive game and bide our Emery weve overcome some of the stigmas that everyone been talk ing and its a great that maybe Why we were Able to come Back from that 20 deficit because theres so much Moti vation to prove everyone Toronto pc earns franchises first Victory the associated press Toronto striker Danny Dichio scored Toronto pcs first and the expansion major league soccer team went on to get its first win in five a 31 Victory Over the Chicago fire on tied 11 after the first Tor onto pc put Chicago away with a pair of second half goals before a raucous crowd at boo fullback Kevin Goldthwaite rave Toronto a 21 Lead in the 1st minute with a Low left footed Rookie midfielder Maurice kudu made it 31 in the 75th with a left footed shot after substitute Andrea Lombardo found him alone in the i said when we get the first there going to come in today we got kudu Dichio got the Ball rolling in the opening 45 minutes by notching a of firsts for scor mls Roundup ing the first goal and then earning the first red card in franchise his it took Toronto 384 minutes to score and the goal sent boo Field into a commemorative White seat provided free As part of what was dubbed the stadiums official opening doubled As Frisbee As fans tossed them out of the it was fire coach Dave Sarachan it was very very they were a 12th Man for that group it was a great Atmo Cyvas Usa Crew 1 at co Ante Razov scored Early for chivas Usa and Ned Grabavoy answered soon after for razors goal i the second minute came on a free kick that resulted from a rare first minute yellow card shown by referee Jorge Gonzalez to Crew defender Marcos Gonzalez for his foul against Laurent Merlin at Crew razors 24yard strike curled Over the Crew defensive past goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum and into the upper right Corner of the net for the chivas forwards third goal of the the Crew equalized 16 minutes when recently acquired Guillermo Barros schelotto intercepted a weak chivas Backrass and set up Grabavoy second goal of the pc Dallas wizards i at Kan Sas Kenny Copper and Juan Toja scored in the first and pc Dallas held on to hand Kansas City its first Home loss of Cooper scored in the games 19th minute when teammate Dax Mccarty floated a Ball near the top of the Kansas City penalty area and Cooper headed a shot Over wizards goalie Kevin Hart Man and into the upper left Cor Ner of the net that ended 306 consecutive shutout minutes by the wizards pc Dallas went up 20 in Stop Page time of the first half when Ramon Nunez crossed a Ball into the left Side of the Kansas City revolution Galaxy 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