Buffalo Sabres vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Saturday, January 27, 2007 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
FSN-NY · MSG
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–3 on Saturday, January 27, 2007 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders outshot the Sabres 31–30.
Jochen Hecht scored twice and Arron Asham scored twice. Trent Hunter, Ales Kotalik, Randy Robitaille and Andy Hilbert also scored.
Rick DiPietro made 27 saves on 30 shots for the win; Ryan Miller stopped 26 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Trent Hunter (11)Unassisted0–107:42 NYI
Jochen Hecht (13)Daniel Brière (42), Maxim Afinogenov (31)1–115:01 BUF
2nd period
Arron Asham (8)Richard Park (9), Tom Poti (18)1–203:03 NYI- Jochen Hecht (14)Nathan Paetsch (9), Toni Lydman (11)2–205:00 BUF ·
Ales Kotalik (14)Daniel Paille (6), Chris Drury (22)3–212:25 BUF
3rd period
- Arron Asham (9)Allan Rourke (1), Shawn Bates (6)3–306:53 NYI
Randy Robitaille (8)Unassisted3–416:51 NYI
Andy Hilbert (6)Trent Hunter (7), Mike Sillinger (22)3–519:06 NYI
Team stats
BUFNYI
3031
49%51%
1/40/5
108
1324
226
118
79
Penalties
- 0:24 into the first period
Jochen Hecht · hooking2 min - 12:34 into the first periodMaxim Afinogenov · hooking2 min
- 4:10 into the second period
Miroslav Satan · cross checking2 min - 14:23 into the second periodToni Lydman · slashing2 min
- 16:50 into the second periodShawn Bates · hooking2 min
- 1:23 into the third periodTeppo Numminen · hooking2 min
- 7:22 into the third periodJaroslav Spacek · holding2 min
- 7:57 into the third periodMike Sillinger · hooking2 min
- 10:28 into the third periodSean Hill · slashing2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 55Jochen HechtC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 20:23 |
| 12Ales KotalikR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 13:14 |
| 20Daniel PailleL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14:18 |
| 23Chris DruryC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 18:45 |
| 48Daniel BrièreC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19:35 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 16:23 |
| 5Toni LydmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 0 | 24:08 |
| 38Nathan PaetschD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 18:18 |
| 9Derek RoyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:16 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 08:06 |
| 26Thomas VanekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 12:03 |
| 28Paul GaustadC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:10 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:49 |
| 76Andrew PetersL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 04:53 |
| 6Jaroslav SpacekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:27 |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:53 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 18:24 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 21:26 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ryan MillerG | L | 31 | 5 | .839 |
| 43Martin BironG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Islanders
| 7Trent HunterR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 12:13 |
| 45Arron AshamR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 09:21 |
| 10Richard ParkR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 11:16 |
| 11Andy HilbertL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 11:54 |
| 17Shawn BatesC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 09:51 |
| 18Mike SillingerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:14 |
| 27Randy RobitailleC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 09:29 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 26:59 |
| 38Allan RourkeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 13:24 |
| 12Chris SimonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:39 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:52 |
| 55Jason BlakeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:13 |
| 79Alexei YashinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 20:28 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:29 |
| 6Sean HillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 24:21 |
| 14Chris CampoliD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:30 |
| 24Radek MartinekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 22:37 |
| 44Freddy MeyerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:16 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike DunhamG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Rick DiPietroG | W | 30 | 3 | .900 |