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April 26, 2007

P-Bruins down 3-2 heading back to Hartford after 1-0 loss

PROVIDENCE — Nigel Dawes scored a power-play goal midway through the second period and Al Montoya made it stand up as the Hartford Wolf Pack beat the Providence Bruins, 1-0, and took a one-game lead in the teams' Atlantic Division semifinal series.

Hartford leads the best-of-seven series, 3-2, and can advance to the division finals by beating the Bruins in Game 6 which is scheduled for Saturday night at the Hartford Civic Center. Game 7, if necessary, would be played Sunday night at Hartford.

Providence's Jason Platt was in the penalty box for holding when Hartford scored the only goal Montoya would need. Hannu Toivonen made a pad save on a slap shot by Corey Potter but the rebound came to Jarkko Immonen who slipped the puck to Dawes. Dawes slid the puck under Toivonen at 8:01 for his fourth goal of the series.
The Bruins had killed off 22 of 23 power plays in the series prior to Dawes' goal.

Montoya made 24 saves for the shutout which came almost one year to the day when he last posted a playoff shutout. Montoya made 30 saves while blanking Manchester, 7-0, on April 23, 2006.

Toivonen stopped 23 shots including one on a clean breakaway by Greg Moore while Providence was skating short-handed in the second minute of the third period.

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