Period 1
	Was	Buf	Time		Scoring Detail
	0	1	1:12		Th.Vanek 10	( An.Sekera, Ja.Spacek )
	0	2	13:13		De.Roy 2	( Ja.Pominville, Ti.Connolly ) (pp)
	0	3	19:36		Ja.Pominville 3	( Cl.MacArthur )

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Mi.Jurcina	Was	1:46		Interference
	Al.Kotalik	Buf	2:58		Hooking
	Do.Brashear	Was	6:58		Roughing
	Do.Brashear	Was	11:09		Tripping
	Je.Schultz	Was	11:32		Interference

	Period 2
	Was	Buf	Time		Scoring Detail
	0	4	19:57		Th.Vanek 11	( Al.Kotalik, An.Sekera )

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	He.Tallinder	Buf	3:23		Interference
	Pa.Gaustad	Buf	4:05		Roughing
	To.Fleischmann	Was	6:31		Cross-checking
	He.Tallinder	Buf	9:24		Tripping
	Ni.Backstrom	Was	14:27		Hooking

	Period 3
	Was	Buf	Time		Scoring Detail
	0	5	11:59		Da.Paille 2	( Pa.Kaleta )

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Se.Fedorov	Was	4:09		Hooking
	De.Roy	Buf	13:22		Hooking
	Jo.Erskine	Was	15:56		Interference

Shots on goal	1	2	3	---	F
Washington Capitals	7	14	8	---	29
Buffalo Sabres	14	4	9	---	27

Power-play opportunites
	Capitals	0-of-5
	Sabres	1-of-8

Goaltenders:
	Capitals	Jo.Theodore	-L (27 shots, 22 saves)	Record: 4-3-0
	Sabres	Ry.Miller	-W (29 shots, 29 saves)	Record: 6-1-1

Penalty Shots:

Individual Stats
Washington Capitals
	PM, S			PM, S
Nicklas Backstrom	-1, 3		Matt Bradley	-1, 0
Donald Brashear	-1, 1		Chris Clark	-1, 0
John Erskine	-1, 0		Sergei Fedorov	-1, 4
Tomas Fleischmann	-2, 2		Boyd Gordon	-1, 2
Mike Green	-3, 7		Milan Jurcina	-1, 2
Viktor Kozlov	-1, 0		Brooks Laich	-1, 1
Shaone Morrisonn	-1, 0		Michael Nylander	-2, 4
Tom Poti	0, 1		Jeff Schultz	-1, 0
Alexander Semin	-1, 2		Dave Steckel	0, 0
Jose Theodore	0, 0
Buffalo Sabres
	PM, S			PM, S
Maxim Afinogenov	0, 2		Tim Connolly	+1, 1
Paul Gaustad	+1, 1		Patrick Kaleta	+1, 0
Ales Kotalik	+2, 3		Toni Lydman	+2, 1
Clarke MacArthur	+1, 2		Adam Mair	0, 2
Ryan Miller	0, 0		Teppo Numminen	0, 0
Nathan Paetsch	0, 0		Daniel Paille	+1, 3
Jason Pominville	+1, 2		Derek Roy	+2, 3
Andrej Sekera	+2, 0		Jaroslav Spacek	+2, 1
Drew Stafford	0, 2		Henrik Tallinder	+2, 0
Thomas Vanek	+2, 4

Three stars of the game:

1. Ryan Miller

2. Thomas Vanek

3. Jason Pominville

Attendance: 18,690

Referees: Don Koharski, Brian Pochmara

Linesmen: Scott Driscoll, Brad Kovachik