Period 1
	Buf	Atl	Time		Scoring Detail
	1	0	7:01		Th.Vanek 36	( Ja.Pominville, De.Roy ) (pp)
	1	1	8:36		Za.Bogosian 7	( Il.Kovalchuk, Br.Little )

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Co.Armstrong	Atl	6:17		Hooking
	Ja.Spacek	Buf	13:47		Delay of Game

	Period 2
	Buf	Atl	Time		Scoring Detail
	1	2	10:26		Sl.Kozlov 25	( Ro.Hainsey, Co.Armstrong )
	2	2	13:56		Th.Vanek 37	( De.Roy, Ja.Spacek ) (pp)

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Il.Kovalchuk	Atl	7:30		Roughing
	Za.Bogosian	Atl	12:39		Roughing
	Ga.Exelby	Atl	12:50		Roughing
	Er.Boulton	Atl	18:24		Slashing

	Period 3
	Buf	Atl	Time		Scoring Detail
	2	2			No goals scored.

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Pa.Gaustad	Buf	7:57		Hooking
	Za.Bogosian	Atl	15:38		Tripping
	To.Lydman	Buf	17:52		Hooking

	OT
	Buf	Atl	Time		Scoring Detail
	2	3	4:30		Il.Kovalchuk 41

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty

Shots on goal	1	2	3	OT	---	F
Buffalo Sabres	8	14	9	1	---	32
Atlanta Thrashers	9	9	6	6	---	30

Power-play opportunites
	Sabres	2-of-6
	Thrashers	0-of-3

Goaltenders:
	Sabres	Ry.Miller	-O (30 shots, 27 saves)	Record: 31-16-6
	Thrashers	Jo.Hedberg	-W (32 shots, 30 saves)	Record: 12-10-3

Penalty Shots:

Individual Stats
Buffalo Sabres
	PM, S			PM, S
Chris Butler	0, 0		Tim Connolly	0, 0
Paul Gaustad	0, 4		Jochen Hecht	0, 0
Patrick Kaleta	0, 1		Toni Lydman	-1, 1
Clarke MacArthur	0, 1		Adam Mair	-1, 0
Ryan Miller	0, 0		Dominic Moore	-2, 2
Teppo Numminen	-2, 2		Daniel Paille	-1, 0
Jason Pominville	0, 6		Craig Rivet	0, 2
Derek Roy	-1, 3		Jaroslav Spacek	-2, 1
Drew Stafford	-1, 1		Henrik Tallinder	-1, 1
Thomas Vanek	-2, 7
Atlanta Thrashers
	PM, S			PM, S
Colby Armstrong	+1, 2		Zach Bogosian	+2, 3
Eric Boulton	0, 2		Tobias Enstrom	+2, 0
Garnet Exelby	0, 1		Ron Hainsey	+1, 3
Johan Hedberg	0, 0		Ilya Kovalchuk	+2, 3
Slava Kozlov	+1, 6		Bryan Little	+1, 3
Nathan Oystrick	+1, 1		Eric Perrin	0, 0
Rich Peverley	+2, 1		Marty Reasoner	0, 2
Anssi Salmela	0, 0		Jim Slater	0, 2
Colin Stuart	0, 1		Chris Thorburn	0, 0
Todd White	+1, 0

Three stars of the game:

1. Zach Bogosian

2. Ilya Kovalchuk

3. Johan Hedberg

Attendance: 15,038

Referees: Brad Meier, Tim Peel

Linesmen: Pierre Racicot, Anthony Sericolo