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 BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Leave it to Daniel Alfredsson — the Ottawa Senators' captain and longest serving player — to score the biggest goal in team history. With one clutch shot at 9:32 of overtime, Alfredsson ended a decade's worth of frustration by sending the Senators to the Stanley Cup finals for the first time.
His goal sealed a 3-2 win over the top-seeded Buffalo Sabres on Saturday, allowing Ottawa to win the Eastern Conference finals in five games.
No one needed to remind Alfredsson that he was the only one to have played in Ottawa's 94 playoff games over 10 consecutive years; or that it took that long for the Senators to finally shed their reputation as postseason underachievers.
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