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EDMONTON -- The Calgary Roughnecks and Edmonton Rush needed an extra game to decide the National Lacrosse Leagues West Division final. Shawn Evans scored a pair of goals in a special 10-minute mini-game as the Calgary Roughnecks defeated the Edmonton Rush 2-1 on Friday night to advance to the NLLs final. The Roughnecks came into the night holding a 1-0 series lead thanks to a 12-11 overtime victory in Calgary last Saturday. However, the Rush were able to hang on for a 15-13 win in Game 2, sending the series to the extra mini-game to decide the series. Calgary got on board first in the mini-game as Evans had Rush goalie Aaron Bold going the other way with a shot two minutes in and then added another goal a minute later to give the Roughnecks at 2-0 lead. Edmonton finally scored in the extra match with 1:39 to play with a goal by Zack Greer, but Calgary was able to kill the clock from there. "You never know what to expect in a short overtime game like that," Evans said. "Im just so proud of how we never quit on the night, even when things didnt look very good. We stuck together and now we are heading to the championship. It feels good." The Roughnecks actually trailed 11-2 at one point in the full-length game, but came roaring back and gave themselves the momentum heading into the extra match-up. "This is one of the greatest feelings of my life," said Calgary goalie Mike Poulin. "It was a hell of a night. I am really well of the way we responded and the way we played after the first half of the first game. We let it slip away for a bit, but we showed a lot of character and played a good 40 minutes after that to win the West." Poulins coach agreed. "The big thing was to grind them down and remember who we are," said Roughnecks head coach Curt Malawsky. "It wasnt an easy game and I am very proud of our guys. They were all over us. It was just one goal at a time and then you start believing a bit. Then it is one loose ball or one save or a faceoff. It showed a lot when you could have easily mailed it in and play for another day, but the guys wouldnt do that. We have a special group here and we are excited to be playing again next week." Calgary will now wait to see if their opponent will be the Rochester Knighthawks or the Buffalo Bandits when the two teams finish their series on Saturday night. It was the first home playoff date in the nine-year history of the Edmonton Rush, who won the NLLs regular-season title with a 16-2 record. "In the extra time, we out-played them, we out-chanced them. We had our opportunities," said Rush head coach and GM Derek Keenan "Its a crappy way to end our season, but thats the way it ended and its hard to swallow, thats for sure." Bold certainly isnt a fan of the new NLL playoff format. "I think its just ridiculous that 10 minutes decides the East or West Division, as well as a Champions Cup," he said. "That needs to be switched around to a full game because thats a little bit of a joke. I may be saying that because were on the short end of the stick, but realistically thats not a way to win. But Calgary won and hats off to them." Things actually looked like they were going to go Edmontons way to start the night. The Rush took a 2-0 lead in the nights first game with a pair of quick goals bookended around the five-minute mark of the first quarter, as Mark Matthews and Greer got shots past Poulin. Calgary responded with its first goal midway through the opening frame, as Evans scored on the Roughnecks first shot of the game on Bold. Edmonton made it 3-1 as Bold sent defender Nik Bilic on a breakaway and he made good on the opportunity. Calgary cut the lead to a goal, but the Rush came storming back with an impressive five goals in a 90-second span, including the second of the game for both Matthews and Greer, to lead 8-2 with three minutes to play in the first. The five goals in a minute-and-a-half set a new NLL record. The Rush outshot Calgary 18-6 in the first, with their eight goals tying a team record for the most goals in a quarter. Edmonton kept coming to start the second as Curtis Knight scored a short-handed goal just 23 seconds in. The Rush struck twice more in the first five minutes of the second to make it 11-2, prompting the Roughnecks to replace Poulin in net with backup Frankie Scigliano. Calgary finally stopped Edmontons run of eight goals in a row with four straight of its own, before Edmonton finally got one back for a 12-6 lead at the half. Poulin returned to the Calgary net for the second half. The third goals of the game from Evans and Dane Dobbie allowed Calgary to close the score to 14-10 heading into the fourth quarter. The Roughnecks kept coming and notched a pair of goals to close the score to 14-12 four minutes into the fourth. Scott Ranger scored with just over five minutes to go to make it a one-goal game, but the Rush were able to hang on for dear life and put the game away with an empty-net goal from Bilic to give them the 15-13 win and force the mini-game to decide the series. Notes: It was the third time that the two Alberta-based team have met in the NLL playoffs. The Rush won the two previous post-season encounters, emerging victorious in one-game West Division semifinals in both 2010 and 2012a Edmonton won the season series between the two teams for the first time in franchise history, going 3-1. 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She held a 5-2 lead in the second set, only to let Riske tie it at five.GLENDALE, Ariz. - Chewed out by their goalie, in an 0-for-29 power-play slump and losers of three in a row, the Ottawa Senators were in a bad mood when they came to Arizona and they took it out on the erratic Coyotes.Five Ottawa players scored, two on power plays, in the Senators 5-1 victory on Saturday night.Craig Anderson had 31 saves for the Senators, who scored five straight after the Coyotes took an early lead on Mikkel Boedkers goal.Milan Michalek, Clarke MacArthur, Mike Hoffman, Cody Ceci and David Legwand scored for Ottawa. The goals by Michalek and Ceci came on power plays.The Senators Mika Zibanejad had two assists.Much of Ottawas damage came in front of the net, a major point of emphasis of coach Dave Cameron in Fridays practice.Thats how you have to score in this league, Cameron said. And the longer the season goes, the more you have to do that because everything tightens up and it becomes more of a battle. If you dont get into those areas, youll get some chances, but usually not enough to win games.Mike Smith had 28 saves for Arizona.Coach Dave Tippett said Smith doesnt deserve all the blame.Certainly everybody would like to see more saves, he said, but Id like to see more saves but Id like to see more NHL plays made. Theres some stuff that is happening in front of him that is unacceptable. You shouldnt pile on the goalie.It was the first game since Anderson, after Thursdays 5-2 loss at Colorado, said his teammates need to get meaner and tougher.In Colorado, from myself to everybody else on the team, we werent happy with the result that we got and we wanted to do something about it, Anderson said after Saturdays win. The sun came out the next day and we were able to put it behind us. You learn from your misttakes and you move forward.ddddddddddddAfter going 3 for 5 on the power play in Thursdays 4-1 win over Winnipeg, the Coyotes were 0 for 5 against Ottawa.For the second game in a row, the Coyotes scored early.Boedkers left wrister in front glanced off the crossbar and into the net and Arizona led 1-0 at 4:31 of the opening period.Ottawa came back with two first-period goals. The first came on a power play when Michalek knocked in a loose puck in front of the net at 7:08.The Senators took the lead at 13:09 when MacArthur took a short pass and tapped it into the empty left side of the net.Arizonas Brandon Gormley came tantalizingly close to the tying goal midway through the first period. His slap shot from the blue line glanced off one post, travelled down the goal line to the other post, then bounced away.Moments later, Keith Yandles attempt to clear the puck from in front of the Arizona net was intercepted by Hoffman, who passed to Zibanejad. He sent it back to Hoffman, who scored in front of the net and it was 3-1 at 9:21 of the second.Cody Ceci scored early in the third, then Legwand capped the rout with a goal with seven seconds to go.Notes: Brothers Michael Stone of Arizona and Mark Stone of Ottawa played against each other for the first time in their NHL careers. Another pair of brothers play for the two teams Milan Michalek of Ottawa and brother Zbynek of Arizona, but Zbynek missed his second straight game with an upper body injury. ... Coyotes were without Martin Hanzal, also with an upper-body injury. ... Arizonas Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Ottawas Bobby Ryan were selected to the All-Star game. ... In the past five games, the feast-or-famine Coyotes lost 6-0, won 6-3, lost 6-0, won 4-1 and lost 5-1. 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