‘They exploited the absence of Teppo Numminen on the Sabres defence and finally found a chink in the armour of Sabres goalie Ryan Miller, who made a number of terrific saves but looked suspect on Justin Williams’s goal to make it 4-1 in the third period. The Hurricanes also managed to get far more traffic in front of Miller and generally made life miserable for him and a defence corps that had performed admirably to that point.’