Buffalo at Minnesota

Shots
123OTT
Buffalo 8 11 12 3 34
Minnesota 9 12 3 1 25
Goals
123OTT
Buffalo 2 0 2 0 4
Minnesota 1 3 0 1 5


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. BUFFALO, JOHANSSON 1 (PAILLE, ANTROPOV) (PP), 02:45
2. BUFFALO, VANEK 2 (BOUCHER, MARLEAU), 08:07
3. MINNESOTA, KESLER 2 (BROWN, WALSER), 12:53

PENALTIES: T. VANEK BUF (BOARDING, Minor) 00:37, D. WALSER MIN (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 01:22, J. SMITH MIN (ROUGHING, Minor) 15:02

Period 2
4. MINNESOTA, SMITH 1 (HUDLER), 04:01
5. MINNESOTA, KESLER 3 (WALSER, SMITH), 07:24
6. MINNESOTA, KESLER 4 (UNASSISTED) (PP), 10:55

PENALTIES: B. BOYES BUF (ELBOWING, Minor) 09:58, P. BOUCHER BUF (BOARDING, Double Minor) 11:55

Period 3
7. BUFFALO, HAVLAT 2 (JACKMAN, BOYES) (PP), 02:22
8. BUFFALO, BOUCHER 1 (VANEK, HAVLAT), 03:46

PENALTIES: J. RITA MIN (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 00:38, M. HAVLAT BUF (ELBOWING, Minor) 11:43

Overtime
9. MINNESOTA, VAANANEN 1 (HARVEY, COLLITON), 01:16



Goalie Statistics

Ryan Miller (BUF), 20 saves out of 25 shots, L, 2-2-0
Marc-Andre Fleury (MIN), 30 saves out of 34 shots, W, 4-0-2

Power Play Conversions

Buffalo 2 for 3
Minnesota 1 for 4

Game Stars

1 - Ryan Kesler (MIN)
2 - Martin Havlat (BUF)
3 - Jason Smith (MIN)

Player Statistics

Buffalo

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Daniel Paille         0  1  1    -1   0  0   0 16
Brad Boyes            0  1  1    -1   2  5   1 18
Barret Jackman        0  1  1    +1   0  5   2 26
Jaroslav Svoboda      0  0  0    -1   0  1   1  8
Jared Aulin           0  0  0    -1   0  0   0  8
Kirill Koltsov        0  0  0    -2   0  2   1 23
Patrick Marleau       0  1  1    +1   0  4   1 20
Milan Michalek        0  0  0    -1   0  2   1 15
Martin Havlat         1  1  2    +1   2  5   1 23
Toni Lydman           0  0  0    -2   0  3   0 19
Kurt Sauer            0  0  0    -1   0  1   1 15
Andreas Johansson     1  0  1    -1   0  1   0 11
Kenny Jonsson         0  0  0    -1   0  0   2 18
Curtis Brown          0  0  0    -1   0  1   2  7
Thomas Vanek          1  1  2    +1   2  1   2 19
Philippe Boucher      1  1  2    +1   4  2   4 22
Nik Antropov          0  1  1    -1   0  0   2 16
Andrei Kostsitsyn     0  0  0    -1   0  1   0 15
   
Minnesota

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Dustin Brown          0  1  1    +1   0  1   1 22
Ales Hemsky           0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 21
Keith Ballard         0  0  0    -1   0  0   1  5
Derrick Walser        0  2  2    +1   2  1   4 24
Jeremy Colliton       0  1  1  Even   0  3   1  8
Ossi Vaananen         1  0  1    +1   0  2   5 28
Christoph Brandner    0  0  0    +1   0  2   0  7
Sean Bergenheim       0  0  0  Even   0  0   1 11
Jiri Hudler           0  1  1    +1   0  4   1 21
Pierre-Marc Bouchard  0  0  0  Even   0  1   2 18
Stephane Veilleux     0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 12
Jani Rita             0  0  0  Even   2  1   0 12
Kurtis Foster         0  0  0    +1   0  0   0 22
Jason Smith           1  1  2    +2   2  3   2 23
Joe Corvo             0  0  0  Even   0  0   1 21
Ryan Kesler           3  0  3    +2   0  3   2 23
Todd Harvey           0  1  1    +1   0  1   0  5
Jeff Friesen          0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 19
   

Financial

Attendance: 18064
Net Profit: $1,040,486.00

Game Notes

Keith Ballard injured at 15:02 of the 1st Period
Ryan Kesler scores a hat trick