NHL PLAYOFFS Tuesday's games
Senators 3, Flyers 2, OT
PHILADELPHIA -- Wade Redden scored the game-winning goal 6 minutes, 43 seconds into overtime. Ottawa leads the Eastern Conference semifinal series 2-1. Game 4 is Thursday in Philadelphia. The Senators trailed 2-1 entering the third. They had been 0-22 in playoff games when trailing after 40 minutes. Philadelphia was 35-0-3 when leading after two periods this season, including 5-0 in the playoffs. Marian Hossa and Daniel Alfredsson scored power-play goals for Ottawa. John LeClair and Sami Kapanen scored for the Flyers. Philadelphia's Roman Cechmanek, coming off a 33-save performance in a 2-0 road victory Sunday, stopped 24 shots. Patrick Lalime made 20 saves for the Senators.
Canucks 3, Wild 2
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Vancouver scored three power-play goals and Dan Cloutier made 16 saves and got a little help from the posts as Vancouver took a 2-1 series lead over Minnesota. Game 4 of the series is Friday night in St. Paul, Minn. The Canucks got goals from Brendan Morrison, Ed Jovanovski and Daniel Sedin as the Wild allowed three power-play goals for only the second time this season. The Canucks, whose power play was ranked third in the NHL this season, went 3-for-6 with the man advantage in a game that saw 40 penalty minutes assessed. Seven seconds after the opening faceoff, Minnesota's Matt Johnson and Vancouver's Brad May got into some stick play and dropped their gloves. The Wild had power-play goals by Filip Kuba and Marian Gaborik.
-- Associated Press
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