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Saturday, December 6, 2008 · St. Pete Times Forum

Sabres 4 at Lightning 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 79OVR Drew Stafford Sabres First Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG R 97OVR Martin St. Louis Lightning Second Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG L 70OVR Vinny Prospal Lightning Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:02 Drew Stafford (4) Paul Gaustad (3) · Wrist BUF 1 – 0 TBL
  2. 13:05 Martin St. Louis (7) Vincent Lecavalier (12), Lukas Krajicek (4) · Wrist BUF 1 – 1 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 9:46 Thomas Vanek (19) Derek Roy (13), Drew Stafford (6) · Snap BUF 2 – 1 TBL
  2. 10:21 Paul Ranger (2) Vincent Lecavalier (13), Vinny Prospal (11) · Slap BUF 2 – 2 TBL
  3. 14:41 Jochen Hecht (3) Adam Mair (3), Toni Lydman (7) · Tip-in BUF 3 – 2 TBL
  4. 15:20 Vinny Prospal (6) Marek Malik (3), Martin St. Louis (14) · Backhand BUF 3 – 3 TBL

3rd Period

  1. 10:03 Derek Roy (7) Teppo Numminen (6), Drew Stafford (7) · Wrist BUF 4 – 3 TBL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Drew Stafford R 1 2 4 0 0 +3 16:06 2.75
Derek Roy C 1 1 2 1 0 +2 19:51 1.68
Teppo Numminen D 0 1 1 0 1 +2 17:33 1.00
Thomas Vanek L 1 0 2 0 0 0 15:09 0.95
Toni Lydman D 0 1 1 1 1 -1 19:22 0.70
Nathan Gerbe C 0 0 4 0 0 +2 15:09 0.50
Paul Gaustad C 0 1 3 1 0 0 17:58 0.32
Jaroslav Spacek D 0 0 2 0 1 0 22:55 0.30
Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 10:48 0.30
Ales Kotalik R 0 0 3 0 1 0 14:13 0.27
Adam Mair C 0 1 1 1 0 0 9:59 0.17
Jochen Hecht C 1 0 2 1 2 -1 14:34 0.13
Andrej Sekera D 0 0 0 1 1 0 18:42 0.05
Craig Rivet D 0 0 1 1 2 -1 21:00 0.03
Maxim Afinogenov R 0 0 1 1 0 0 12:46 0.02
Daniel Paille L 0 0 0 3 1 -1 12:23 -0.05
Clarke MacArthur L 0 0 0 1 0 -1 8:28 -0.15
Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 0 1 -1 20:32 -0.25
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ryan Miller W 23 20 3 .870 59:58 -0.25

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Martin St. Louis R 1 1 5 0 0 +3 23:55 2.15
Vinny Prospal L 1 1 3 2 0 +1 19:11 1.70
Vincent Lecavalier C 0 2 1 2 0 +2 21:53 1.25
Paul Ranger D 1 0 3 4 2 +1 23:05 1.08
Marek Malik D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 19:16 0.58
Steven Stamkos C 0 0 4 0 0 0 19:28 0.30
Radim Vrbata R 0 0 3 0 1 -1 10:26 0.22
Lukas Krajicek D 0 1 0 0 3 -2 14:08 0.18
Andrej Meszaros D 0 0 0 2 2 +1 24:45 0.10
Ryan Craig C 0 0 0 1 1 -1 12:57 -0.10
Matt Smaby D 0 0 0 1 0 0 8:32 -0.10
Jussi Jokinen L 0 0 1 2 1 -2 16:45 -0.12
Mark Recchi R 0 0 0 2 2 -1 16:29 -0.15
Evgeny Artyukhin R 0 0 0 1 0 -1 6:44 -0.15
Radek Smolenak L 0 0 1 1 1 0 4:36 -0.25
Paul Szczechura C 0 0 0 1 1 -1 15:21 -0.30
Steve Eminger D 0 0 0 2 3 -2 22:08 -0.45
Steve Downie R 0 0 0 4 0 -1 9:24 -0.48
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Smith L 27 23 4 .852 58:57 -0.70