Atlanta Thrashers vs San Jose Sharks
Regular season · Saturday, February 21, 2009 · HP Pavilion at San Jose
XM 208 · CSN-BA (HD) · SPSO
Game summary
The San Jose Sharks beat the Atlanta Thrashers 3–1 on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at HP Pavilion at San Jose. The Sharks outshot the Thrashers 31–23.
Goals came from Ryane Clowe, Jonathan Cheechoo, Bryan Little and Joe Thornton.
Evgeni Nabokov made 22 saves on 23 shots for the win; Kari Lehtonen stopped 28 of 31.
Scoring
3rd period
Ryane Clowe (21)Milan Michalek (24), Joe Pavelski (26)0–100:30 SJS
Jonathan Cheechoo (9)Jeremy Roenick (6), Rob Blake (28)0–202:55 SJS · 
Bryan Little (25)Vyacheslav Kozlov (33), Todd White (36)1–207:37 ATL · 
Joe Thornton (15)Dan Boyle (29), Devin Setoguchi (27)1–313:18 SJS ·
Team stats
ATLSJS
2331
39%61%
1/52/3
1115
2230
2112
1217
48
Penalties
- 11:13 into the first period
Marc-Edouard Vlasic · delaying game puck over glass2 min - 18:50 into the first periodRob Blake · slashing2 min
- 3:51 into the second period
Boris Valabik · interference2 min - 7:37 into the second periodClaude Lemieux · tripping2 min
- 14:43 into the second periodBoris Valabik · fighting5 min
- 14:43 into the second periodJody Shelley · fighting5 min
- 1:05 into the third periodBoris Valabik · hooking2 min
- 6:02 into the third periodJoe Thornton · cross checking2 min
- 6:46 into the third periodMike Grier · tripping2 min
- 11:35 into the third periodNiclas Havelid · hooking2 min
Atlanta Thrashers
| 10Bryan LittleC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 18:21 |
| 12Todd WhiteC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 19:04 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21:19 |
| 9Erik ChristensenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:32 |
| 11Eric PerrinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:16 |
| 17Ilya KovalchukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 21:53 |
| 19Marty ReasonerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:59 |
| 20Colby ArmstrongR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:02 |
| 27Chris ThorburnR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:04 |
| 47Rich PeverleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:56 |
| 49Colin StuartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:29 |
| 50Jordan Lavallee-SmothermanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:24 |
| 2Garnet ExelbyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:17 |
| 4Zach BogosianD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:14 |
| 6Ron HainseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24:00 |
| 28Niclas HavelidD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:58 |
| 39Toby EnstromD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:00 |
| 48Boris ValabikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:54 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Johan HedbergG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Kari LehtonenG | L | 31 | 3 | .903 |
San Jose Sharks
| 8Joe PavelskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 20:19 |
| 9Milan MichalekL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 18:59 |
| 14Jonathan CheechooR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11:16 |
| 16Devin SetoguchiR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:46 |
| 19Joe ThorntonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:51 |
| 27Jeremy RoenickC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 09:47 |
| 29Ryane CloweL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 17:24 |
| 4Rob BlakeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 20:17 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23:17 |
| 12Patrick MarleauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:01 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13:22 |
| 32Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:15 |
| 39Tomas PlihalC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:35 |
| 45Jody ShelleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:29 |
| 3Douglas MurrayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:55 |
| 10Christian EhrhoffD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:23 |
| 21Alexei SemenovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:12 |
| 44Marc-Edouard VlasicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 24:17 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20Evgeni NabokovG | W | 23 | 1 | .957 |
| 33Brian BoucherG | 0 | 0 | – |