PHILADELPHIA (Ticker) -- Patrick Lalime and the Ottawa Senators got a couple of gorillas off their backs.

Lalime stopped 33 shots for his first career postseason win as the Senators broke a 13-game road playoff losing streak with a 3-0 blanking of the anemic Philadelphia Flyers in Game Two of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series.

Winless in his first five playoff starts, Lalime was spectacular in recording the second postseason shutout in team history. He stopped eight shots in the first period, 16 in the second and nine in the third and has not allowed a goal in regulation in this series.

"It feels good," Lalime said. "We were so close a few times, but we came up short. In the playoffs, you never know how it's going to go. This is good for our confidence."

No save was bigger than the one Lalime made on Simon Gagne with just over 16 minutes left. With Ottawa clinging to a 1-0 lead, Gagne got a pass from Justin Williams that sent him in alone on Lalime, who made a diving pokecheck before Gagne could shoot. Mike Fisher beat Roman Cechmanek on a breakaway at the other end to give the Senators some breathing room.

"I had him on my backhand," Gagne said. "He put the stick on the puck at the last moment. If I had waited a little bit more and brought the puck a little closer to me, I think I had a chance to beat him. If I score the goal, it's a tie game."

"I just moved across the crease," Lalime explained. "I thought he had me, but I just got my stick on the puck. It was one of those plays where you turn around and things fall into place. We took the rebound and it was a good thing that we did because we scored the goal. It was a big change of momentum for us."

Former Flyer Jody Hull capped the scoring with 4:03 to play, finishing off Ottawa's first postseason road victory since a 2-1 triumph at New Jersey in Game One of the 1998 conference quarterfinals.

"It's nice to get the monkey off our back," Lalime said. "It's not that we haven't played well in the past, we just couldn't win. Tonight we gave it a great effort. It was a team game, everybody scored a goal and we just shut them down in the third period. The credit goes to everybody."

Coming off a 1-0 overtime victory in Game One, Cechmanek made 23 saves. But Philadelphia has scored just once in 57 shots on Lalime and ceded home-ice advantage in the best-of-seven series.

"I haven't seen frustration like this in 14 years of playing at this level," said Flyers center Jeremy Roenick, whose team scored 16 goals in the final 10 games of the regular season. "It's mind-boggling the way the puck will not go in the net for us. The guys are working, they are trying and they are getting good opportunities. But the puck doesn't seem to want to go in the net."

Game Three is Monday in Ottawa.

"It's a seven-game series. No one said it was going to be easy," Roenick continued. "It will be nice to get on the road and go up there and turn the tide on them. There's a little less pressure on the road, and we played well on the road all year. It's a little bit easier to focus."

Both goaltenders were focused for nearly a period and a half.

The Senators had a 15-8 advantage in shots in a scoreless opening period and took the lead 9:32 into the second. Both teams were down a man when Philadelphia defenseman Eric Weinrich was penalized for tripping at 9:08, and Ottawa cashed in during a rare 4-on-3 power play.

With three players between him and the net, Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson fired a slap shot from above the left faceoff circle inside the near goalpost and past Cechmanek's stick side.

"The puck went to the corner. We won the battle for it and I was able to step into the shot," Alfredsson said. "Both (teammate Marian) Hossa and their defensemen screened the goalie. I don't think he saw it."

Lalime made a series of stellar saves before the period ended. He lunged to stop a deflection by Adam Oates with 8:51 left, then dived to smother the puck with Game One hero Ruslan Fedotenko on the doorstep. With 7 1/2 minutes to go, Lalime sprawled and got the heel of his glove on Justin Williams after Williams put his first shot off the right goalpost.

"Patrick had an outstanding game," Ottawa coach Jacques Martin said. "I thought he played extremely well on Wednesday night, but we didn't score for him. It was nice to get some goals tonight. He played a very important part (tonight). To win in the playoffs, you need to have key goaltending."

Hull got the clincher after Flyers defenseman Eric Desjardins lost the puck behind the net. Alfredsson threw it into the slot and Hull's one-timer found room inside the left post.

"We got the puck in the corner and I saw Jody wide-open in the slot. And he picked the corner clean," Alfredsson said.

Philadelphia has been shut out twice in its last three playoff games, scoring just one goal during that span.

Ottawa @ Philadelphia Boxscore

SCORING SUMMARY THROUGH PERIODS:

	1ST	2ND	3RD	TOTAL
Ottawa	0	1	2	3
Philadelphia	0	0	0	0

FINAL

FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: None. Penalties: M Havlat, Ott (roughing), 4:51; J Roenick, Phi (slashing), 11:11; C Phillips, Ott (roughing), 13:02; E Weinrich, Phi (roughing), 13:02; M Arvedson, Ott (holding stick), 13:33; M Recchi, Phi (hooking), 18:19.

SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Ottawa, Daniel Alfredsson 1 (power play) (Radek Bonk, Marian Hossa), 9:32. Penalties: Z Chara, Ott (slashing), 7:59; L Richardson, Phi (elbowing), 7:59; E Weinrich, Phi (tripping), 9:08; S Hnidy, Ott (tripping), 13:42.

THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 2, Ottawa, Mike Fisher 1 (Unassisted), 3:53. 3, Ottawa, Jody Hull 1 (Daniel Alfredsson, Juha Ylonen), 15:57. Penalties: R Bonk, Ott (roughing, high sticking), 16:53; D Mcgillis, Phi (roughing, high sticking), 16:53.

SHOTS ON GOAL:

	1ST	2ND	3RD	TOTAL
Ottawa	15	6	5	26
Philadelphia	8	16	9	33

Power-play Conversions: OTT - 1 of 3, PHI - 0 of 3.
Goalies : Ottawa, Patrick Lalime (33 shots, 33 saves; record: 1-1-0). Philadelphia, Roman Cechmanek (26 shots, 23 saves; record: 1-1-0).
Attendance: 19,734.
Referees: Blaine Angus, Rob Shick.
Linesmen: Pierre Racicot, Tim Nowak.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Ottawa Player Goals Assists +/- Shots D Alfredsson 1 1 +1 4 M Fisher 1 0 +1 4 R Bonk 0 1 even 2 S Mceachern 0 0 +1 1 J Hull 1 0 +1 1 M Hossa 0 1 +1 3 M Arvedson 0 0 even 0 C Neil 0 0 even 0 B Brunet 0 0 even 2 T White 0 0 even 3 Z Chara 0 0 +2 1 S Hnidy 0 0 even 0 Ylonen 0 1 +1 1 C Phillips 0 0 even 2 S Salo 0 0 even 0 W Redden 0 0 +2 0 C Leschyshyn 0 0 even 0 M Havlat 0 0 even 2 Scratches: R Persson - Healthy C Herperger - Healthy B Muckalt - Healthy

Philadelphia Player Goals Assists +/- Shots J LeClair 0 0 even 4 S Gagne 0 0 -2 2 J Williams 0 0 -1 3 P Ranheim 0 0 even 0 E Weinrich 0 0 even 1 L Richardson 0 0 even 2 K Primeau 0 0 even 2 R Fedotenko 0 0 even 2 T Fedoruk 0 0 even 0 D Mcgillis 0 0 even 0 E Desjardins 0 0 -2 1 M Murray 0 0 -1 1 K Johnsson 0 0 even 4 C Therien 0 0 -2 2 A Oates 0 0 even 2 M Recchi 0 0 even 1 D Brashear 0 0 even 1 J Roenick 0 0 -2 6 Scratches: R Tocchet - Back Injury C Mcallister - Wrist Injury J Dopita - Knee Injury

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