Toronto ? The resilient Toronto Maple Leafs keep advancing in the playoffs because Alexander Mogilny continues to score big goals in Game 7s.

Mogilny was at it again Tuesday night, scoring twice in a 3-0 victory over Ottawa that advanced the Maple Leafs to the Eastern Conference finals.

Curtis Joseph stopped 19 shots and Bryan McCabe also scored for the Leafs, who will face the Hurricanes in a best-of-seven series that opens at Carolina on Thursday.

It was the second straight seven-game series’ victory for Toronto, which eliminated the New York Islanders with a 4-2 Game 7 win in the opening round. And it’s the second straight Game 7 in which Mogilny has scored twice.

While the Air Canada Centre was still buzzing with “Go Leafs Go” chants, Mogilny almost sounded subdued.

“I don’t understand what the fuss is all about,” Mogilny said. “There’s a bigger hurdle coming up. I don’t know why everybody’s so excited. The last time I checked you have to win four series.”

Perhaps, the excitement comes because almost everyone counted out the banged-up and weary Maple Leafs, who were missing six regulars, including captain Mats Sundin (broken wrist), and were playing their 12th game in 22 days.

“Whenever we face adversity, we don’t pack it in at all,” center Alyn McCauley said. “It seems the longer the series goes on, the longer the game goes on, the stronger we get. I don’t know if that’s the team character or conditioning, but it seems that way.

“Maybe we’re just the marathon runners and not the sprint runners.”

The same cannot be said about the Senators, who continued to live down to their reputation of folding under playoff pressure, blowing a 3-2 series advantage, and squandering leads in its three previous games including a 2-0 lead in an eventual 4-3 loss in Game 6 on Sunday.

This is also a Senators franchise that has never advanced past the second round, dropped to 0-2 in Game 7s, and has now been eliminated in three straight playoffs by Toronto.

“Failure to get it done. We had them on the ropes a few times,” Ottawa defenseman Wade Redden said.