Boston Bruins vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Thursday, April 5, 2007 · HSBC Arena
NESN (HD) · MSG
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Boston Bruins 4–2 on Thursday, April 5, 2007 at HSBC Arena. The Sabres outshot the Bruins 33–22.
Thomas Vanek scored twice. Andrew Ference, Patrice Bergeron, Ales Kotalik and Derek Roy also scored.
Ryan Miller made 20 saves on 22 shots for the win; Hannu Toivonen stopped 29 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Andrew Ference (3)Phil Kessel (18), Petr Kalus (1)1–004:01 BOS
Patrice Bergeron (22)Zdeno Chara (32), Marc Savard (72)2–014:01 BOS · 
Ales Kotalik (16)Dainius Zubrus (36), Chris Drury (31)2–114:22 BUF
Thomas Vanek (41)Drew Stafford (14), Brian Campbell (42)2–218:38 BUF
3rd period
- Thomas Vanek (42)Derek Roy (42)2–304:26 BUF
Derek Roy (19)Thomas Vanek (40), Maxim Afinogenov (35)2–415:46 BUF ·
Team stats
BOSBUF
2233
37%63%
1/61/6
1212
1820
1316
1215
17
Penalties
- 2:44 into the first period
Jason York · tripping2 min - 3:37 into the first period
Thomas Vanek · holding2 min - 4:28 into the first periodAles Kotalik · interference2 min
- 5:52 into the first periodBrandon Bochenski · hooking2 min
- 10:08 into the first periodAndrew Alberts · hooking2 min
- 13:24 into the first periodAdam Mair · elbowing2 min
- 2:45 into the second periodPetr Kalus · hooking2 min
- 8:04 into the second periodDaniel Brière · holding the stick2 min
- 10:28 into the second periodAaron Ward · slashing2 min
- 12:25 into the second periodAles Kotalik · broken stick2 min
- 2:25 into the third periodJaroslav Spacek · holding2 min
- 14:11 into the third periodZdeno Chara · roughing2 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 37Patrice BergeronC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 19:48 |
| 47Petr KalusR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14:22 |
| 81Phil KesselR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 17:20 |
| 91Marc SavardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20:02 |
| 21Andrew FerenceD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 20:12 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 23:23 |
| 10Brandon BochenskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 18:37 |
| 13Stanislav ChistovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:42 |
| 16Marco SturmL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:37 |
| 17Petr TenkratR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 22:33 |
| 22Shean DonovanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:02 |
| 32Jeff HogganR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 05:53 |
| 53Jeremy ReichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 08:38 |
| 6Dennis WidemanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:32 |
| 25Jason YorkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:43 |
| 38Bobby AllenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:10 |
| 41Andrew AlbertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:35 |
| 44Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 21:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Tim ThomasG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 54Hannu ToivonenG | L | 33 | 4 | .879 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 26Thomas VanekL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 6 | 16:26 |
| 9Derek RoyC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 18:13 |
| 12Ales KotalikR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 15:38 |
| 15Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 19:47 |
| 21Drew StaffordR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 11:19 |
| 23Chris DruryC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 17:40 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 14:27 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:39 |
| 20Daniel PailleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12:19 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:58 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:27 |
| 48Daniel BrièreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:43 |
| 55Jochen HechtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:31 |
| 5Toni LydmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 19:43 |
| 6Jaroslav SpacekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 14:30 |
| 10Henrik TallinderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 18:23 |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:41 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:04 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ryan MillerG | W | 22 | 2 | .909 |
| 35Ty ConklinG | 0 | 0 | – |