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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 · St. Pete Times Forum

Sabres 3 at Lightning 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 81OVR Jason Pominville Sabres First Star 2A · 6 SOG D 84OVR Cory Murphy Lightning Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG C 90OVR Derek Roy Sabres Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:45 Steve Eminger (4) PPG Jeff Halpern (5) · Slap BUF 0 – 1 TBL
  2. 5:19 Steve Downie (2) Cory Murphy (3), Matt Pettinger (4) · Wrist BUF 0 – 2 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 0:19 Derek Roy (17) Jason Pominville (24), Toni Lydman (12) · Wrist BUF 1 – 2 TBL
  2. 1:23 Lukas Krajicek (1) Andrej Meszaros (13), Vinny Prospal (19) · Wrist BUF 1 – 3 TBL
  3. 4:04 Ales Kotalik (10) PPG Craig Rivet (7), Paul Gaustad (7) · Slap BUF 2 – 3 TBL
  4. 13:52 Jeff Halpern (3) Mark Recchi (20), Ty Wishart (1) · Snap BUF 2 – 4 TBL
  5. 16:55 Derek Roy (18) PPG Thomas Vanek (15), Jason Pominville (25) · Backhand BUF 3 – 4 TBL
  6. 19:54 Cory Murphy (1) PPG Mark Recchi (21) · Snap BUF 3 – 5 TBL

3rd Period

No scoring

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jason Pominville R 0 2 6 0 1 0 21:28 1.80
Derek Roy C 2 0 3 0 0 0 21:48 1.58
Craig Rivet D 0 1 3 2 2 0 24:18 0.95
Ales Kotalik R 1 0 1 2 0 -1 12:08 0.68
Toni Lydman D 0 1 3 2 1 -2 23:59 0.65
Thomas Vanek L 0 1 0 0 0 -1 15:22 0.48
Paul Gaustad C 0 1 1 2 0 -1 17:49 0.40
Drew Stafford R 0 0 4 1 0 0 18:38 0.30
Tim Connolly C 0 0 5 1 0 -1 18:31 0.18
Nathan Paetsch D 0 0 2 0 0 0 10:57 0.15
Jochen Hecht C 0 0 1 0 1 -1 15:12 -0.02
Adam Mair C 0 0 2 2 0 0 11:05 -0.05
Matt Ellis L 0 0 0 0 1 0 9:57 -0.05
Jaroslav Spacek D 0 0 0 0 1 0 19:27 -0.05
Chris Butler D 0 0 2 2 0 0 20:29 -0.10
Daniel Paille L 0 0 1 2 0 0 8:44 -0.13
Clarke MacArthur L 0 0 0 1 0 -1 11:10 -0.15
Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 0 0 1 -2 11:42 -0.40
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ryan Miller L 26 21 5 .808 58:24 -1.65

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Cory Murphy D 1 1 2 2 2 0 24:32 1.68
Mark Recchi R 0 2 1 0 0 +1 13:56 1.48
Jeff Halpern C 1 1 1 0 0 +1 16:57 1.45
Steve Eminger D 1 0 4 0 1 0 29:40 1.00
Steve Downie R 1 0 1 3 0 +1 9:25 0.98
Vinny Prospal L 0 1 2 1 0 +1 15:24 0.93
Lukas Krajicek D 1 0 1 0 1 +2 24:23 0.87
Matt Pettinger L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 12:15 0.85
Andrej Meszaros D 0 1 1 2 2 +1 25:42 0.80
Ty Wishart D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 9:43 0.78
Vincent Lecavalier C 0 0 4 0 0 0 19:32 0.25
Adam Hall R 0 0 2 5 1 0 12:31 0.25
Martin St. Louis R 0 0 2 1 1 0 18:49 0.20
Jussi Jokinen L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 13:37 0.15
Ryan Malone L 0 0 1 3 0 0 16:52 0.13
Steven Stamkos C 0 0 1 2 0 0 11:42 0.13
Ryan Craig C 0 0 1 3 0 0 9:25 0.08
David Koci L 0 0 1 1 0 0 4:32 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Smith W 34 31 3 .912 59:59 0.85