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Saturday, December 20, 2008 · Centre Bell

Sabres 3 at Canadiens 4

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 61OVR Sergei Kostitsyn Canadiens First Star 2G · 7 SOG L 68OVR Clarke MacArthur Sabres Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG R 85OVR Alex Kovalev Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 8 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:10 Derek Roy (11) Clarke MacArthur (8), Teppo Numminen (8) · Wrist BUF 1 – 0 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 5:17 Sergei Kostitsyn (5) PPG Andrei Markov (20), Alex Tanguay (14) · Slap BUF 1 – 1 MTL
  2. 15:21 Clarke MacArthur (8) Jason Pominville (17), Jaroslav Spacek (16) · Tip-in BUF 2 – 1 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 3:26 Alex Tanguay (10) Roman Hamrlik (7) · Tip-in BUF 2 – 2 MTL
  2. 13:20 Andrej Sekera (1) PPG Clarke MacArthur (9), Teppo Numminen (9) · Wrist BUF 3 – 2 MTL
  3. 15:06 Sergei Kostitsyn (6) Alex Kovalev (18) · Backhand BUF 3 – 3 MTL

Overtime

  1. 4:35 Alex Kovalev (8) PPG Andrei Markov (21), Matt D'Agostini (2) · Wrist BUF 3 – 4 MTL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Clarke MacArthur L 1 2 2 1 1 0 15:28 2.05
Teppo Numminen D 0 2 0 0 0 +1 17:15 1.35
Jaroslav Spacek D 0 1 5 0 3 +1 22:05 1.30
Andrej Sekera D 1 0 2 1 2 +1 22:31 1.05
Jason Pominville R 0 1 2 1 2 +1 21:46 1.03
Derek Roy C 1 0 1 3 0 0 22:47 0.83
Thomas Vanek L 0 0 5 0 1 0 18:28 0.38
Jochen Hecht C 0 0 5 1 0 +1 23:12 0.33
Chris Butler D 0 0 1 0 1 +1 10:38 0.33
Drew Stafford R 0 0 2 2 1 0 16:47 0.15
Daniel Paille L 0 0 2 2 0 0 16:02 0.10
Maxim Afinogenov R 0 0 1 0 0 0 8:19 0.08
Ales Kotalik R 0 0 3 2 0 -1 12:51 0.07
Toni Lydman D 0 0 2 2 8 -2 27:09 -0.05
Adam Mair C 0 0 1 0 2 0 9:45 -0.13
Matt Ellis L 0 0 0 1 1 -1 10:43 -0.30
Andrew Peters L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1:17 -0.38
Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 0 3 2 -2 27:50 -0.40
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ryan Miller O 46 42 4 .913 64:22 1.20

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Sergei Kostitsyn L 2 0 7 1 1 +1 17:35 2.28
Alex Kovalev R 1 1 8 1 0 0 21:27 1.73
Alex Tanguay L 1 1 3 0 2 0 17:06 1.65
Andrei Markov D 0 2 2 1 2 -1 27:38 1.15
Roman Hamrlik D 0 1 1 4 3 +2 23:42 1.05
Matt D'Agostini R 0 1 4 1 2 -1 16:29 0.83
Josh Gorges D 0 0 2 0 2 +2 22:11 0.50
Tomas Plekanec C 0 0 2 0 2 +1 18:58 0.35
Robert Lang C 0 0 1 0 2 0 19:05 0.23
Steve Begin L 0 0 4 7 2 -1 13:41 0.20
Maxim Lapierre C 0 0 2 1 0 0 14:26 0.10
Ben Maxwell C 0 0 1 0 1 0 11:02 0.08
Francis Bouillon D 0 0 4 2 0 -1 16:01 0.05
Guillaume Latendresse L 0 0 1 4 0 0 16:23 0.02
Tom Kostopoulos R 0 0 0 4 0 -1 14:35 -0.05
Georges Laraque R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 6:36 -0.15
Mike Komisarek D 0 0 1 1 1 0 17:25 -0.18
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 2 1 0 -2 16:28 -0.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jaroslav Halak W 34 31 3 .912 64:33 0.85