sabres bruins notes it was unlikely improbable for the bruins it was the stuff of nightmares for the sabres it was a taste of heaven for the first time since the sabres have won the first three games of a series last time was a three games to none victory in a best of five against the canadiens it takes a little more work this time the sabres seem ready to put in the extra work on the heels of a shutout one that took away boston s home ice advantage the sabres came back with a four to three overtime win it wasn t easy it wasn t always pretty it still worked john blue got the nod for boston supplanting andy moog as starting goaltender moog was pulled midway through game on tuesday buffalo started with a goal by mogilny his fourth of the playoffs on the powerplay with boston s don sweeney and gord roberts in the box lafontaine and hawerchuk had the assists goal number two was khmylev s first of the playoffs a pretty goal scored when the sabres stole the puck and passed to an open and waiting khmylev smehlik and hannan assisted determined not to be shut out boston tallied on a shot by ray bourque on the powerplay with colin patterson and bob sweeney both in the box period two was scoreless a split of penalties between the two clubs the third saw boston s smolinski get his first courtesy of oates buffalo resecured the lead two minutes later from former bruin bob sweeney khmylev and carney neely tied the game of the way through the third sending it into overtime last year overtime meant a bruin win last night it spelled sweet revenge as buffalo scored with ray bourque in the penalty box on a tip in by khmylev hawerchuk and lafontaine a minute into overtime both teams finished with shots power play conversions boston buffalo referee rob shick comments shick pocketed the whistle in the third allowing a lot of clutching and grabbing buffalo s penalty killing unit was fantastic again mogilny was checking granted he missed once and instead flung his body into the boards but checking like this is a novel idea to mogilny the crowd was unbelievable i don t think i ve ever heard a crowd that loud in the aud for a sabres game remember i was only five when they played for the cup i don t remember it and no one took me to the games doug bodger in a postgame interview noted that he tried to say something to hawerchuk but the crowd was too loud even though he was shouting it didn t seem to matter as most of the sabres and even muckler said it was great yuri khmylev didn t seem to realize that he was the game s third star and didn t skate out when his name was called sweeney and fuhr each were out before yuri made his appearance sans jersey when asked in an interview later whether he knew how big a goal that was he responed yes ok it was through an interpreter and he said more than that even more than the interpreter said but i digress the interviewer seemed to think just because he doesn t speak english he must not understand playoffs uh huh valerie hammerl john sr would lift pat over the boards grab hammerl acsu buffalo edu his hand and start running around the outside v pwpz ubvms cc buffalo edu faster and faster i wanted to learn how to get that feeling and the only way was to learn how to skate p lafontaine
