Period 1
	TB	Buf	Time		Scoring Detail
	1	0	9:51		St.Stamkos 1	( Vi.Lecavalier, Ma.St. Louis ) (pp)
	2	0	10:30		Ju.Jokinen 2	( Ev.Artyukhin, Ma.Recchi )
	2	1	11:12		Cl.MacArthur 5	( Da.Paille, Ja.Spacek )
	3	1	19:34		Ry.Malone 2	( St.Stamkos )

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Al.Kotalik	Buf	8:26		Tripping
	Mi.Weber	Buf	12:47		Holding
	Va.Prospal	TB	15:56		Stick Holding

	Period 2
	TB	Buf	Time		Scoring Detail
	4	1	13:10		Pa.Ranger 1	( Ch.Gratton, Vi.Lecavalier )
	5	1	15:00		St.Stamkos 2	( Ad.Hall )
	5	2	19:40		Th.Vanek 9	( An.Sekera, Ja.Spacek ) (pp)

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Ma.Pettinger	TB	5:14		Hooking
	Vi.Lecavalier	TB	10:53		Tripping
	Ma.Carle	TB	18:52		Hooking

	Period 3
	TB	Buf	Time		Scoring Detail
	5	2			No goals scored.

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	St.Stamkos	TB	12:24		Stick Holding
	Te.Numminen	Buf	12:24		Hooking
	Ad.Mair	Buf	16:53		Boarding
	.Team	TB	18:08		Too many men

Shots on goal	1	2	3	---	F
Tampa Bay Lightning	15	14	11	---	40
Buffalo Sabres	8	14	9	---	31

Power-play opportunites
	Lightning	1-of-3
	Sabres	1-of-5

Goaltenders:
	Lightning	Ol.Kolzig	-W (31 shots, 29 saves)	Record: 1-1-1
	Sabres	Ry.Miller	-L (40 shots, 35 saves)	Record: 5-1-1

Penalty Shots:

Individual Stats
Tampa Bay Lightning
	PM, S			PM, S
Evgeny Artyukhin	+2, 0		Matt Carle	-1, 1
Chris Gratton	0, 2		Adam Hall	+2, 2
Jussi Jokinen	+1, 3		Olaf Kolzig	0, 0
Lukas Krajicek	0, 1		Vincent Lecavalier	+1, 6
Mike Lundin	0, 1		Marek Malik	+2, 0
Ryan Malone	+2, 3		Andrej Meszaros	+3, 1
Matt Pettinger	-1, 1		Vaclav Prospal	0, 3
Paul Ranger	+2, 6		Mark Recchi	+1, 1
Gary Roberts	-1, 1		Martin St. Louis	0, 4
Steven Stamkos	+2, 4
Buffalo Sabres
	PM, S			PM, S
Maxim Afinogenov	-1, 1		Paul Gaustad	-1, 0
Patrick Kaleta	-2, 0		Ales Kotalik	-1, 8
Toni Lydman	0, 0		Clarke MacArthur	0, 2
Adam Mair	-1, 0		Ryan Miller	0, 0
Teppo Numminen	-2, 0		Daniel Paille	+1, 1
Andrew Peters	-1, 0		Jason Pominville	+1, 4
Derek Roy	-1, 4		Andrej Sekera	-1, 2
Jaroslav Spacek	-1, 1		Drew Stafford	-2, 5
Henrik Tallinder	0, 0		Thomas Vanek	-2, 2
Mike Weber	-1, 1

Three stars of the game:

1. Steven Stamkos

2. Vincent Lecavalier

3. Paul Ranger

Attendance: 18,690

Referees: Stephane Auger, Tom Kowal

Linesmen: Mike Cvik, Tim Nowak