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Friday, December 23, 2005 · St. Pete Times Forum

Sabres 4 at Lightning 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 92OVR Ryan Miller Sabres First Star 30 SV · .968 RC D 84OVR Henrik Tallinder Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 65OVR Paul Gaustad Sabres Third Star 2A · 1 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:17 Vinny Prospal (16) Ruslan Fedotenko (7), Nolan Pratt (5) · Wrist BUF 0 – 1 TBL
  2. 6:15 Thomas Vanek (9) PPG Derek Roy (10), Henrik Tallinder (5) · Slap BUF 1 – 1 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 6:41 Chris Drury (12) Jochen Hecht (10), Teppo Numminen (21) · Backhand BUF 2 – 1 TBL
  2. 10:04 Henrik Tallinder (2) Paul Gaustad (7), Daniel Paille (1) · Wrist BUF 3 – 1 TBL

3rd Period

  1. 17:30 Ales Kotalik (16) Paul Gaustad (8), Tim Connolly (19) · Wrist BUF 4 – 1 TBL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Henrik Tallinder D 1 1 4 0 2 +2 19:21 1.98
Paul Gaustad C 0 2 1 0 0 +2 11:12 1.63
Ales Kotalik R 1 0 6 0 0 +1 12:18 1.35
Thomas Vanek L 1 0 3 0 0 0 13:05 0.98
Chris Drury C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 16:36 0.93
Tim Connolly C 0 1 0 1 1 +1 18:30 0.88
Daniel Paille L 0 1 1 2 0 +1 10:27 0.85
Derek Roy C 0 1 4 2 0 -1 18:48 0.83
Jochen Hecht C 0 1 0 0 1 +1 17:26 0.83
Teppo Numminen D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 17:33 0.65
Toni Lydman D 0 0 2 0 3 +2 19:00 0.45
Brian Campbell D 0 0 1 0 1 +1 16:43 0.28
Mike Grier R 0 0 1 2 1 +2 14:30 0.23
Maxim Afinogenov R 0 0 3 2 1 -1 15:18 0.07
Jason Pominville R 0 0 1 0 1 0 12:23 -0.02
Rory Fitzpatrick D 0 0 0 0 2 -1 21:51 -0.05
Adam Mair C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 7:31 -0.10
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 2 1 -1 21:14 -0.10
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ryan Miller W 31 30 1 .968 60:00 2.25

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Nolan Pratt D 0 1 1 2 0 0 14:52 0.70
Vinny Prospal L 1 0 2 0 0 -2 22:35 0.55
Ruslan Fedotenko L 0 1 2 1 0 -1 13:22 0.53
Ryan Craig C 0 0 3 0 0 0 10:08 0.27
Brad Richards C 0 0 6 0 0 -1 27:34 0.25
Tim Taylor C 0 0 2 1 0 0 8:41 0.15
Dan Boyle D 0 0 6 1 0 -2 28:56 0.15
Martin Cibak C 0 0 1 0 0 0 6:44 0.08
Martin St. Louis R 0 0 3 1 0 -1 20:44 0.07
Chris Dingman L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:20 0.00
Darren Reid R 0 0 0 0 0 0 7:43 0.00
Dave Andreychuk L 0 0 2 0 1 -1 11:46 -0.05
Evgeny Artyukhin R 0 0 0 2 1 0 6:26 -0.10
Rob DiMaio R 0 0 1 2 0 -1 19:13 -0.13
Cory Sarich D 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:35 -0.20
Paul Ranger D 0 0 0 0 0 0 20:18 -0.20
Freddy Modin L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 25:48 -0.25
Darryl Sydor D 0 0 0 2 1 -1 18:30 -0.25
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Grahame L 30 27 3 .900 59:45 0.45