Sabres Prevail in a Wild One

Chris Drury and the Buffalo Sabres beat the high-scoring Ottawa Senators at their own game.

Drury scored 18 seconds into overtime after Tim Connolly netted his second goal of the night with 10.7 seconds left in regulation, and the Sabres stunned the Senators with a 7-6 victory Friday in a wild Eastern Conference semifinal opener.

The teams scored three goals in the final 1:37 of regulation as Buffalo’s Derek Roy tied it at 5-5 with a short-handed effort for his second of the game at 18:23. But Bryan Smolinski scored his second 24 seconds later during the same power play to give Ottawa its fifth straight lead, 6-5.

The Sabres pressed for one more, and Connolly got it as he swept a puck that lay within Ray Emery’s reach up and over the rookie goalie to shock the crowd.