The Minnesota Wild lost to the Buffalo Sabres, 4 to 3, in overtime on October 23, 2008.

Final

Sabres

6-0-1

4

Wild

4-0-1

3

Team

BUF

MIN

1

0

2

0

2

3

2

1

OT

1

0

Total

4

3

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

BUF

MIN

Drew Stafford (EV) assisted by Derek Roy and Thomas Vanek

1

0

2nd period

BUF

MIN

Benoit Pouliot (EV) assisted by Derek Boogaard and Craig Weller

1

Stephane Veilleux (EV) assisted by Eric Belanger and Pierre-Marc Bouchard

1

2

3rd period

BUF

MIN

Brent Burns (PP) unassisted

1

3

Adam Mair (EV) assisted by Nathan Paetsch and Maxim Afinogenov

2

3

Thomas Vanek (EV) assisted by Andrej Sekera and Drew Stafford

3

OT

BUF

MIN

Derek Roy (EV) assisted by Henrik Tallinder and Toni Lydman

4

3

Sabres

Wild

Goals

4

3

Shots

24

33

Penalty Minutes

6

4

Power-Play Goals

0

1

Power-Play Opportunities

2

3

Faceoff Wins

27

28

Hits

13

26

Giveaways

2

6

Takeaways

10

9

Sabres

Wild

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Ryan Miller (W)	1	33	3	30	.909	60:43

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Maxim Afinogenov	0	1	+1	0	3	16:30	0	0	0	1
Matt Ellis	0	0	0	0	3	5:10	0	0	0	0
Patrick Kaleta	0	0	0	0	1	5:06	1	0	0	0
Ales Kotalik	0	0	+1	0	2	16:50	2	0	0	0
Toni Lydman	0	1	+2	2	0	19:19	3	3	0	0
Clarke MacArthur	0	0	-1	2	2	16:32	1	0	0	0
Adam Mair	1	0	+1	0	1	16:19	3	0	0	1
Teppo Numminen	0	0	-1	0	0	16:20	0	0	0	0
Nathan Paetsch	0	1	0	0	0	14:24	2	1	0	1
Daniel Paille	0	0	-1	0	2	15:46	0	0	0	1
Andrew Peters	0	0	-1	0	0	4:44	0	0	0	0
Jason Pominville	0	0	-1	0	2	20:28	1	3	0	0
Derek Roy	1	1	+2	0	3	23:41	0	0	0	3
Andrej Sekera	0	1	+1	0	1	24:49	0	1	0	2
Jaroslav Spacek	0	0	0	2	2	24:55	0	1	0	0
Drew Stafford	1	1	+1	0	1	16:13	0	0	0	0
Henrik Tallinder	0	1	+2	0	0	21:53	0	1	0	0
Thomas Vanek	1	1	+3	0	1	18:29	0	1	1	1

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Niklas Backstrom (O)	1	24	4	20	.833	60:44

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Eric Belanger	0	1	-1	0	2	20:59	0	0	0	2
Marc-Andre Bergeron	0	0	0	2	0	15:57	0	2	0	0
Derek Boogaard	0	1	+1	0	0	5:26	2	0	0	0
Pierre-Marc Bouchard	0	1	0	0	1	19:28	0	0	1	2
Andrew Brunette	0	0	-2	0	1	18:18	3	1	0	0
Brent Burns	1	0	-2	0	5	23:12	3	1	0	1
Cal Clutterbuck	0	0	0	0	2	14:26	7	0	0	0
Colton Gillies	0	0	0	0	0	11:40	2	0	0	0
Kim Johnsson	0	0	-1	0	2	20:52	0	2	1	0
Mikko Koivu	0	0	-1	0	4	20:38	0	0	0	1
Antti Miettinen	0	0	-3	0	5	20:49	2	0	0	0
Benoit Pouliot	1	0	0	0	2	8:29	0	0	0	0
Nick Schultz	0	0	-1	0	0	21:19	1	0	1	0
James Sheppard	0	0	0	0	2	13:31	0	0	0	0
Martin Skoula	0	0	0	0	1	19:23	1	1	1	0
Stephane Veilleux	1	0	0	0	2	19:36	2	0	0	2
Craig Weller	0	1	+1	0	0	4:59	1	1	0	0
Marek Zidlicky	0	0	0	2	4	19:54	2	0	0	1