Buffalo Sabres vs Atlanta Thrashers
Regular season · Tuesday, February 6, 2007 · Philips Arena
SPSO · MSG
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Atlanta Thrashers 4–3 in a shootout on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at Philips Arena. The Thrashers outshot the Sabres 30–28.
Daniel Brière scored twice. Ilya Kovalchuk, Jon Sim, Thomas Vanek and Scott Mellanby also scored.
Ryan Miller made 27 saves on 30 shots for the win; Kari Lehtonen stopped 25 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Daniel Brière (22)Nathan Paetsch (12), Chris Drury (23)1–008:01 BUF · 
Ilya Kovalchuk (31)Steve Rucchin (16), Steve McCarthy (11)1–108:40 ATL
2nd period
Jon Sim (14)Jim Slater (12), Andy Sutton (8)1–213:23 ATL
Thomas Vanek (26)Teppo Numminen (17), Ryan Miller (2)2–217:13 BUF · - Daniel Brière (23)Nathan Paetsch (13)3–218:48 BUF ·
3rd period
Scott Mellanby (10)Marian Hossa (36), Vyacheslav Kozlov (37)3–311:51 ATL ·
Team stats
BUFATL
2830
53%47%
3/51/6
1412
1418
1727
817
1011
Penalties
- 5:12 into the first period
Maxim Afinogenov · hooking2 min - 7:16 into the first period
Niclas Havelid · hooking2 min - 13:15 into the first periodDaniel Brière · slashing2 min
- 18:39 into the first periodNathan Paetsch · hooking2 min
- 4:34 into the second periodDmitri Kalinin · hooking2 min
- 10:22 into the second periodBrad Larsen · roughing2 min
- 10:22 into the second periodAndy Sutton · roughing2 min
- 10:22 into the second periodTeppo Numminen · roughing2 min
- 14:01 into the second periodKari Lehtonen · high sticking2 min
- 16:42 into the second periodAndy Sutton · hooking2 min
- 18:17 into the second periodGreg De Vries · hooking2 min
- 8:03 into the third periodAles Kotalik · tripping2 min
- 11:41 into the third periodThomas Vanek · holding2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 48Daniel BrièreC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 20:15 |
| 38Nathan PaetschD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16:36 |
| 23Chris DruryC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22:42 |
| 26Thomas VanekL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 13:22 |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 19:17 |
| 9Derek RoyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:19 |
| 12Ales KotalikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:01 |
| 13Jiri NovotnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 08:08 |
| 20Daniel PailleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 08:15 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 04:24 |
| 28Paul GaustadC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:28 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:20 |
| 55Jochen HechtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21:04 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16:11 |
| 5Toni LydmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 29:55 |
| 10Henrik TallinderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 27:18 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:59 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:38 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ryan MillerG | W | 30 | 3 | .900 |
| 43Martin BironG | 0 | 0 | – |
Atlanta Thrashers
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 23:08 |
| 14Jon SimL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 6 | 15:01 |
| 17Ilya KovalchukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 23:35 |
| 18Marian HossaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 26:10 |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:02 |
| 20Steve RucchinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 16:25 |
| 23Jim SlaterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 07:26 |
| 5Steve McCarthyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:01 |
| 25Andy SuttonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 20:53 |
| 9Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:13 |
| 16Bobby HolikC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:55 |
| 29Brad LarsenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:54 |
| 38Darren HaydarR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:02 |
| 39Niko KapanenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:34 |
| 2Garnet ExelbyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:35 |
| 7Greg De VriesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26:26 |
| 28Niclas HavelidD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24:41 |
| 34Shane HnidyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 10:09 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Johan HedbergG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Kari LehtonenG | O | 28 | 3 | .893 |