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NORFOLK, Va. Zoltan Mesko Jersey . -- Alexandre Picard was at the right place at the right time, which has been his story throughout the playoffs. Picard scored for the seventh time in 11 games, hammering home a rebound at 15:38 of the second period Saturday to give the Norfolk Admirals a lead, then added an empty-net goal for a 3-1 win over the St. Johns IceCaps. The victory gave the Admirals a 2-0 lead in the American Hockey Leagues Eastern Conference final. The teams return to St. Johns, N.L., for Games 3 and 4 on Monday and Tuesday. There were signs of a long night for the IceCaps when Norfolks Richard Panik scored from long range only 51 seconds into the game. Two nights earlier, St. Johns goalie Eddie Pasquale had been victimized by outside shooting in a 6-1 loss. He gave up four of the six goals before being lifted. But on Saturday, Pasquale settled in, withstood a four-shot Admirals onslaught that came on the heels of Paniks goal and started to get some help from the rest of the IceCaps. They spent much of the evening emulating the Admirals: diving to stop shots, taking pucks against the body to keep them away from the goalie. "Any time you get scored on in that first shift, its mentally tough to turn that page and get back to where you need to be," St. Johns coach Keith McCambridge said. "Especially with the guys really wanting this game. You could feel it in the dressing room, and to have that start makes it an uphill climb to get back to where you need to be. "Eddie made some key saves to let us get our feet back under us." "I thought Pasquale was outstanding the first 16 minutes or it might have been a different game," said Admirals coach Jon Cooper. "Thats the way hes been in the playoffs so far. But our guy is standing tall as well." The shot blocking was just the kind of help Norfolk goalie Dustin Tokarski was getting at the other end of the ice, though he had moments in which he had to go it alone. For all the help he got, Tokarski still faced 31 shots, saving 30 of them as he won for the sixth time in eight playoff games this season. He was particularly strong near the end of the opening period, when a spate of Admiral penalties put them in a 5-on-3 power play hole. St. Johns took advantage of it with a pass to Aaron Gagnon on the goalies doorstep. Tokarski slid across to turn the shot back, and seconds later, he punctuated the period with a glove save on a blast by St. Johns Jason King. As the buzzer sounded, Tokarski turned his glove with his wrist in a bit of flair, delighting the 6,249 on hand. "Without him, were probably not sitting here right now," Cooper said of Tokarski, who has won six of eight playoff games this season. "Maybe were sitting here right now, but probably not 2-0." McCambridge said that the IceCaps needed to do more with what opportunities they had. "When you compare it to the first game ... I thought we did a much better job," he said. "Weve got to do a better job of getting to the second and third chances in front of their net to get some rebounds. But their goalie isnt giving up many." St. Johns tied things at 1-1 only 1:51 into the second period when John Albert popped a rebound past Tokarski, who had rejected Paul Postmas bomb from the blue-line but did not control the rebound. That set things up for Picards heroics, which finished off a 2-0 series lead for Norfolk, its first of the playoffs. "This is a good team were playing," McCambridge said "Theyre good on their home ice, but we think were good on our home ice, too. I thought there were some real positives, some things we can take from tonights game and use to get some pucks behind their goalie. Our game is at a better level than Game 1, obviously. 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David West and George Hill each scored 15 points to help the Pacers beat the Mavericks 103-83 on Friday night.CLEVELAND -- Roman Horak struck twice as the Abbotsford Heat downed the Lake Erie Monsters 5-3 on Friday in American Hockey League play. Brett Olson had a goal and two assists for Abbotsford (4-0-1), while Carter Bancks and T.J. Brodie also scored. Paul Carey, Luke Walker and Mike Sgarbossa supplied the offence for Lake Erie (4-3-0). Danny Taylor made 30 saves to earn thhe win, while Sami Aittokallio stopped 18 shots for the Monsters. Vince Wilfork Super Bowl Jersey. Horak scored the eventual winner 5:46 into the third period. Olson then put away his first goal of the season for some insurance just over seven minutes later. Neither team had much success with the extra man. The Heat were 0-for-4 on the power play, while Lake Erie went 0-for-6. ' ' '