Period 1
	Buf	Atl	Time		Scoring Detail
	0	1	1:35		Il.Kovalchuk 2	( To.White )
	0	2	17:12		Br.Little 4	( To.White )

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	He.Tallinder	Buf	4:07		Cross-checking
	Co.Armstrong	Atl	4:07		Slashing
	An.Peters	Buf	7:39		Boarding
	Pa.Kaleta	Buf	7:39		Fighting
	Ch.Thorburn	Atl	7:39		Fighting
	Cl.MacArthur	Buf	9:26		Roughing
	Ad.Mair	Buf	12:22		Cross-checking

	Period 2
	Buf	Atl	Time		Scoring Detail
	1	2	17:00		Th.Vanek 7	( Ja.Pominville, Al.Kotalik ) (pp)

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Ma.Schneider	Atl	4:02		Roughing
	Te.Numminen	Buf	6:56		Hooking
	Er.Boulton	Atl	10:18		Tripping
	Er.Boulton	Atl	15:15		Interference
	Er.Perrin	Atl	16:07		Hooking
	Th.Vanek	Buf	19:39		Interference

	Period 3
	Buf	Atl	Time		Scoring Detail
	2	2	16:52		Ja.Pominville 2

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Ni.Havelid	Atl	9:10		High-sticking
	Th.Vanek	Buf	12:34		Goaltender Interference

	OT
	Buf	Atl	Time		Scoring Detail
	2	2			No goals scored.

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty

	Shootout
	Buf	Atl
	2	3
	Buf	Atl			Shootout Detail
	0	0	Buf		Al.Kotalik	Missed
	0	0	Atl		Er.Christensen	Missed
	1	1	Buf		Dr.Stafford	Made
	1	1	Atl		Il.Kovalchuk	Made
	1	2	Buf		Th.Vanek	Missed
	1	2	Atl		Sl.Kozlov	Made

Shots on goal	1	2	3	OT	---	F
Buffalo Sabres	6	13	9	2	---	30
Atlanta Thrashers	19	11	4	3	---	37

Power-play opportunites
	Sabres	1-of-6
	Thrashers	0-of-6

Goaltenders:
	Sabres	Pa.Lalime	-O (37 shots, 35 saves)	Record: 1-0-1
	Thrashers	Ka.Lehtonen	-W (30 shots, 28 saves)	Record: 2-2-1

Penalty Shots:

Individual Stats
Buffalo Sabres
	PM, S			PM, S
Maxim Afinogenov	0, 2		Matt Ellis	0, 0
Patrick Kaleta	0, 1		Ales Kotalik	0, 5
Patrick Lalime	0, 0		Toni Lydman	-1, 0
Clarke MacArthur	-1, 0		Adam Mair	0, 0
Teppo Numminen	0, 0		Daniel Paille	0, 1
Andrew Peters	0, 1		Jason Pominville	0, 3
Craig Rivet	0, 1		Derek Roy	0, 4
Andrej Sekera	-1, 1		Jaroslav Spacek	+1, 2
Drew Stafford	-1, 2		Henrik Tallinder	-1, 0
Thomas Vanek	-1, 7
Atlanta Thrashers
	PM, S			PM, S
Colby Armstrong	-1, 1		Zach Bogosian	+1, 2
Eric Boulton	-1, 1		Erik Christensen	0, 3
Tobias Enstrom	+1, 2		Garnet Exelby	0, 1
Ron Hainsey	0, 4		Niclas Havelid	0, 3
Ilya Kovalchuk	+2, 5		Slava Kozlov	0, 0
Kari Lehtonen	0, 0		Bryan Little	+2, 2
Eric Perrin	0, 0		Marty Reasoner	0, 1
Mathieu Schneider	0, 5		Jim Slater	-1, 1
Chris Thorburn	0, 1		Todd White	+2, 1
Jason Williams	0, 4

Three stars of the game:

1. Kari Lehtonen

2. Patrick Lalime

3. Ilya Kovalchuk

Attendance: 14,091

Referees: Brian Pochmara, Rob Shick

Linesmen: Pierre Racicot, Lyle Seitz