Game 5

The Sabres kept up the excitement of the past few years, with a 5-4 overtime comeback victory against their rivals the Toronto Maple Leafs (not sold out). The Leafs opened up the scoring on a goal by Simon Gamache, who be Jocyeln Thibualt. The Leafs would later take a 2-0 lead into the third period, when the Sabres would score two quick goals, with Adam Mair scoring the first goal off of beautiful plays by Daniel Paille and Derek Roy. Jason Pominville scored the tying goal off of a beautiful feed from Tim Connolly. The leafs would answer quickly, but Thomas Vanek would tie the game at 3-3 after Lindy Ruff switched Drew Stafford back to the Roy line. Chad Kilger would come right back and score his second goal of the game to make it 4-3 leafs. But Tim Connolly would make a great feed to Jochen Hecht to tie the game with less than 4 minutes to go in the game. The game would go to overtime where Tim Connolly would find Ales Kotalik who gunned a shot that was stopped by Raycroft and Brian McCabe put it into his own net. The goal was later credit to Paul Gaustad who tipped the puck in. The Sabres now have 24 goals in 5 games.

Three Stars:
1. Tim Connolly
2. Chad Kilger
3. Thomas Vanek