Phoenix Coyotes vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, March 6, 2009 · HSBC Arena
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Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Phoenix Coyotes 5–1 on Friday, March 6, 2009 at HSBC Arena. The Sabres outshot the Coyotes 31–30.
Tim Connolly scored twice. Andrej Sekera, Matthew Lombardi, Jason Pominville and Drew Stafford also scored.
Patrick Lalime made 29 saves on 30 shots for the win; Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 26 of 31.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 PHX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 30 |
 BUF | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 31 |
Scoring
1st period
Tim Connolly (12)Jaroslav Spacek (25), Andrej Sekera (13)0–107:07 BUF
Andrej Sekera (3)Tim Connolly (17)0–208:25 BUF
2nd period
- Tim Connolly (13)Derek Roy (36)0–314:17 BUF ·
3rd period
Matthew Lombardi (10)Petr Prucha (6)1–306:52 PHX · 
Jason Pominville (14)Jaroslav Spacek (26), Tim Connolly (18)1–417:15 BUF · 
Drew Stafford (18)Paul Gaustad (14), Maxim Afinogenov (12)1–517:52 BUF ·
Team stats
PHXBUF
3031
56%44%
1/63/6
1424
1719
613
814
15
Penalties
- 2:52 into the second periodKeith Yandle · roughing2 min
- 3:43 into the second periodCraig Rivet · misconduct10 min
- 3:43 into the second periodPaul Gaustad · roughing2 min
- 6:50 into the second periodAdam Mair · cross checking2 min
- 10:18 into the second periodJaroslav Spacek · hooking2 min
- 14:11 into the second periodPetr Prucha · hooking2 min
- 14:45 into the second periodHenrik Tallinder · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 19:05 into the second periodAndrej Sekera · hooking2 min
- 1:36 into the third periodSteve Reinprecht · hooking2 min
- 5:23 into the third periodTim Connolly · hooking2 min
- 13:45 into the third periodPatrick Kaleta · interference2 min
- 13:45 into the third periodScottie Upshall · elbowing2 min
- 15:58 into the third periodBench · delaying game bench2 min
- 15:58 into the third periodEd Jovanovski · tripping2 min
- 18:36 into the third periodEd Jovanovski · slashing2 min
Season series
Phoenix Coyotes
| 15Matthew LombardiC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:41 |
| 16Petr PruchaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:36 |
| 8Scottie UpshallR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:25 |
| 11Martin HanzalC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:56 |
| 14Nigel DawesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 13:09 |
| 19Shane DoanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:36 |
| 28Steve ReinprechtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 12:21 |
| 36Joakim LindstromC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:05 |
| 41Viktor TikhonovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:41 |
| 88Peter MuellerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:49 |
| 89Mikkel BoedkerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:01 |
| 91Kyle TurrisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:49 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:18 |
| 3Keith YandleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:39 |
| 4Zbynek MichalekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 18:11 |
| 44Kurt SauerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 17:20 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:04 |
| 55Ed JovanovskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22:43 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ilya BryzgalovG | L | 31 | 5 | .839 |
| 42Josh TordjmanG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 19Tim ConnollyC | 2 | 2 | 4 | +2 | 6 | 19:26 |
| 6Jaroslav SpacekD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 21:12 |
| 44Andrej SekeraD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 18:42 |
| 9Derek RoyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:42 |
| 21Drew StaffordR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 12:46 |
| 28Paul GaustadC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15:59 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 15:57 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14:01 |
| 17Dominic MooreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:31 |
| 20Daniel PailleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:52 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:31 |
| 26Thomas VanekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 15:27 |
| 36Patrick KaletaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:15 |
| 55Jochen HechtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16:08 |
| 5Toni LydmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22:44 |
| 10Henrik TallinderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:31 |
| 34Chris ButlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:53 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:54 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Mikael TellqvistG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Patrick LalimeG | W | 30 | 1 | .967 |