Sabres Sailing Strong

DEVILS
The Sabres opened the scoring early with Derek Roy. Later in the first period Jason Pominville scored short handed for his 10th of the season. the Devils Keith Tkachuk (13th) scored to cut the gap to 2-1. Thomas Vanek scored a hat trick and the Sabres won going away.
The Devils out hit the Sabres 13-5 and took the puck away 12-9 but Buffalo got 11 GR's on Martin Brodeur and he was only able to stop six of them. Vanek himself has 6 anyshots, 5 penetrations, 4 takeaways, 12 SOG and the aforementioned hat trick. Buffalo 5, New Jersey 2. Stars of the game. Vanek, Roy, Dumont combined for 9 points.


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BRUINS
Boston's P.J.Axelson scored his first goal this year from Brindamor and Gonchar. Buffalo scored the next six goals including 3 of them by Thomas Vanek. It was the second year players fourth hat trick and second in back to back games. This time Vanek managed it on zero anyshots, 3 penetrations, and 7 SOG, 2 of his goals came on the powerplay.
The Sabres powerplay was very effective going 3 for 6 with the advantage and out shot the Bruins 38 to 24 including 13 GR's. 10 on starting Andrew Raycroft who was then pulled in favor of Tim Thomas who saved 3 of 3.
Thomas Vanek was the number one star of the game for the 11th time this season as the Sabres won the game 6-2.
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WILD
The Sabres scored twice in the first period with goals from Alex Semin his 13th and Derek Roy 9th. The Sabres led in all catagories in this contest until midway thru the 3rd period when the Wild's Herik Sendin scored with a man adavantage from Zetterberg and Gaborik to make the game tight down the stretch. Buffalo out hit Minnesota by two, took the puck away three more times and out shot them by the margin of 38-25 and 26-11 in the final 40 minutes.
Ryan Miller was the star of the game giving up just one goal in the Sabres 2-1 win.
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LIGHTNING
Buffalo Sabre's third line center Daniel Briere pocketed two goals in the first period with both coming on assists from Dainus Zubrus who was promonted from 4th line to 3rd line in this game. For Briere it made 10 goals on the year.
Tampa Bay's Martin St.Louis was busy on the powerplay and he scored his 24th goal from Lecavalier and Richards right at the start of period two. Buffalo got a few powerplays and Thomas Vanek scored twice for his 40th and 41st goals on 4 penatrations to give him a league high 66 successful penetrations and he is doing it a 69.5 percent. Sabre defensman Brian Campbell finally scored his first goal of the year and the Sabres won 5-1.
Ryan Miller was given number one star of the game in consecutive games and it was his fourth #1 star so far this year.
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SENATORS
Via NetPlay. The action started for the Senators who scored the first two goals from Spezza and Sakic. Then it was the Sabres turn scoring then next three times with two more goals for Vanek giving him 43 in 35 games. In the third period Ottawa flung 17 shots on goal and scored twice to make it go into overtime. The Sens A.Vermette scored his 2nd goal of the game his 10th of the year and it was the overtime GWG. Final Sens 5 Sabres 4.