Nashville Predators vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Sunday, March 20, 2011 · HSBC Arena
FS-TN (HD) · MSG-B (HD)
Game summary
The Nashville Predators beat the Buffalo Sabres 4–3 in overtime on Sunday, March 20, 2011 at HSBC Arena. The Sabres outshot the Predators 38–26.
Blake Geoffrion scored a hat trick. Nathan Gerbe, Tim Connolly, Tyler Ennis and Martin Erat also scored.
Anders Lindback made 35 saves on 38 shots for the win; Ryan Miller stopped 22 of 26.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Blake Geoffrion (1)Colin Wilson (1), J-P Dumont (1)1–006:44 NSH
2nd period
Nathan Gerbe (1)Paul Gaustad (1), Mark Mancari (1)1–107:04 BUF
Tim Connolly (1)Thomas Vanek (1), Tyler Myers (1)1–207:46 BUF
Tyler Ennis (1)Drew Stafford (1), Ryan Miller (1)1–319:00 BUF ·
3rd period
- Blake Geoffrion (2)Unassisted2–317:33 NSH
- Blake Geoffrion (3)Cody Franson (1), Sergei Kostitsyn (1)3–318:37 NSH
Overtime
Martin Erat (1)Ryan Suter (1), David Legwand (1)4–300:27 NSH
Team stats
NSHBUF
2638
60%40%
0/01/3
60
116
1117
1112
412
Penalties
- 10:50 into the second period
Bench · too many men on the ice2 min - 17:22 into the second periodCody Franson · slashing2 min
- 4:54 into the third periodRyan Suter · cross checking2 min
Nashville Predators
| 5Blake GeoffrionC | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 3 | 10:45 |
| 10Martin EratR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19:30 |
| 11David LegwandC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:57 |
| 33Colin WilsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 08:39 |
| 71J-P DumontR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 10:46 |
| 74Sergei KostitsynL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 16:20 |
| 4Cody FransonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:30 |
| 20Ryan SuterD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 24:27 |
| 12Mike FisherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:24 |
| 13Nick SpalingC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:30 |
| 22Jordin TootooR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:22 |
| 25Jerred SmithsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:51 |
| 27Patric HornqvistR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12:55 |
| 29Joel WardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 16:55 |
| 6Shea WeberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25:18 |
| 7Jonathon BlumD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 20:00 |
| 8Kevin KleinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:15 |
| 55Shane O'BrienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:46 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Pekka RinneG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Anders LindbackG | W | 38 | 3 | .921 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 12Mark MancariR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 14:36 |
| 19Tim ConnollyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 18:09 |
| 21Drew StaffordR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16:06 |
| 26Thomas VanekL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 20:37 |
| 28Paul GaustadC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 14:26 |
| 42Nathan GerbeC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 13:18 |
| 63Tyler EnnisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 16:41 |
| 57Tyler MyersD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 0 | 24:13 |
| 8Cody McCormickC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 10:54 |
| 20Rob NiedermayerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:41 |
| 22Brad BoyesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:45 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 10:48 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 18:53 |
| 3Jordan LeopoldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24:03 |
| 6Mike WeberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:42 |
| 27Shaone MorrisonnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:20 |
| 34Chris ButlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 19:29 |
| 44Andrej SekeraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 25:07 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jhonas EnrothG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Ryan MillerG | O | 26 | 4 | .846 |