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Canucks @ Sabres

Shots 1 2 3 OT FN
Canucks 8 8 8 0 24
Sabres 8 6 9 0 23
Goals 1 2 3 OT FN
Canucks 2 1 4 0 7
Sabres 0 2 1 0 3

Scoring Summary

Period 1
1. CANUCKS, LECAVALIER 6 (OVECHKIN, BERTUZZI) (PP), 04:33
2. CANUCKS, ENSTROM 6 (NUMMELIN) (PP), 05:06

PENALTIES: V. LECAVALIER VAN (ELBOWING, Minor) 01:12, R. NASH BUF (BOARDING, Double Minor, Misconduct) 01:18, N. BACKSTROM VAN (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 18:39

Period 2
3. SABRES, MURRAY 4 (MEYER), 02:31
4. SABRES, LOMBARDI 4 (JOHNSSON, KUNITZ) (SH), 06:07
5. CANUCKS, KOVALCHUK 8 (BACKSTROM), 09:47

PENALTIES: I. KOVALCHUK VAN (ROUGHING, Minor) 01:15, D. PHANEUF BUF (ELBOWING, Minor) 01:15, R. REGEHR BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 04:00, R. UMBERGER BUF (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 04:24, P. NUMMELIN VAN (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 16:26, D. MURRAY BUF (ELBOWING, Minor) 16:26, R. REGEHR BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 17:45

Period 3
6. CANUCKS, PAHLSSON 1 (KOVALCHUK, ZHITNIK) (SH), 08:16
7. CANUCKS, ZUBOV 3 (BACKSTROM, OVECHKIN), 10:39
8. SABRES, KUNITZ 7 (MURRAY, MCCARTHY), 11:54
9. CANUCKS, BACKSTROM 5 (ZUBOV, OVECHKIN), 14:40
10. CANUCKS, BERNIER 3 (PAHLSSON, BERTUZZI), 18:54

PENALTIES: S. PAHLSSON VAN (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 03:28, C. COLAIACOVO VAN (CHARGING, Minor) 06:32

Goalie Statistics

Erik Ersberg (VAN), 20 saves out of 23 shots, W, 1-0-0
Marty Turco (BUF), 15 saves out of 20 shots, L, 10-10-1
Curtis McElhinney (BUF), 2 saves out of 4 shots

Power Play Conversions

Canucks 2 for 4
Sabres 0 for 4

Game Stars

1 – Nicklas Backstrom (VAN)
2 – Alexander Ovechkin (VAN)
3 – Ilya Kovalchuk (VAN)

Canucks Pos G A Pts +/- Pim S H IT
Nicklas Backstrom C 1 2 3 3 2 1 1 23
Alex Ovechkin LW 0 3 3 1 0 2 0 23
Ilya Kovalchuk LW 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 25
Sergei Zubov D 1 1 2 1 0 2 2 22
Samuel Pahlsson C 1 1 2 0 2 1 0 14
Todd Bertuzzi LW 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 13
Tobias Enstrom D 1 0 1 2 0 2 1 17
Steve Bernier RW 1 0 1 0 0 4 4 11
Vincent Lecavalier C 1 0 1 -1 2 1 5 23
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 22
Petteri Nummelin D 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 15
Jaromir Jagr RW 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 16
Pavel Kubina D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 21
J.P. Dumont RW 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 16
Carlo Colaiacovo D 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 16
Bret Hedican D 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7
Alexander Semin RW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Tomas Fleischmann C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

Lines

Sabres Pos G A Pts +/- Pim S H IT
Doug Murray D 1 1 2 1 2 1 0 14
Chris Kunitz LW 1 1 2 0 0 2 1 14
Matthew Lombardi C 1 0 1 -1 0 3 4 21
Steve McCarthy D 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 16
Stefan Meyer LW 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5
Kim Johnsson D 0 1 1 -1 0 1 2 24
Jim Dowd C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10
Scott Nichol RW 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 10
Steve Downie RW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Dustin Boyd C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Robyn Regehr D 0 0 0 -1 4 1 0 23
R.J. Umberger C 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 22
Jonathan Cheechoo RW 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 21
Paul Kariya LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 21
Andy Sutton D 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 19
Rick Nash LW 0 0 0 -1 14 1 0 19
Phil Kessel RW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17
Dion Phaneuf D 0 0 0 -2 2 3 5 27

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Financial

Attendance: 20500
Net Profit: $1,217,700.00

Game Notes

Curtis McElhinney enters game at 10:39 of 3rd period