Flyers Beat Sabres

Buffalo
Sabres

"(John) LeClair caught a pass at the left circle and tried to put the puck on the net," Gagne said. "Primeau got the rebound, then I had the puck down at the net. Hasek was down low so, I put the puck high into the net. I'm pretty happy. My first playoff game and I get the game-winning goal. That's great."

Rookie goalie Brian Boucher, who won the starting job over veteran John Vanbiesbrouck, stopped 18 shots in his first career playoff game.

"This is only one game," he said. "We have to keep the momentum going again tomorrow. We have to use that to our advantage. We don't have a day off. We go right back at it and hopefully get another one. I expect to see more of the same. You can feel the intensity already."

Buffalo had trouble producing any offense, Sabres managed only 5 shots in the third period.

"We didn't do a good enough job of applying pressure, especially in the third," Sabres captain Michael Peca said. "The two goals that we did get are an indication of what we have got to do. We have to put the puck at the net. He played pretty solid, but if we put more pucks on the net, I like our chances."

Keith Jones and Daymond Langkow also scored for the Flyers. Stu Barnes and Miroslav Satan scored for Buffalo.