The Buffalo Sabres squeaked out a win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, 5 to 4, on December 16, 2011.

Final

TOR

4

BUF

Sabres

16-12-3

5

Team

TOR

BUF

1

0

0

2

2

4

3

2

1

Total

4

5

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

2nd period

TOR

BUF

Maple Leafs

Joffrey Lupul (EV) assisted by Phil Kessel

1

0

Sabres

Drew Stafford (PP) assisted by Thomas Vanek and Jason Pominville

1

1

Maple Leafs

Dion Phaneuf (PP) assisted by Tyler Bozak and John-Michael Liles

2

1

Sabres

Thomas Vanek (EV) assisted by Zack Kassian

2

2

Sabres

Tyler Ennis (PP) assisted by Jason Pominville and Thomas Vanek

2

3

Sabres

Andrej Sekera (PP) assisted by Christian Ehrhoff and Tyler Ennis

2

4

3rd period

TOR

BUF

Maple Leafs

Nikolay Kulemin (EV-PS) unassisted

3

4

Sabres

Thomas Vanek (EV) assisted by Derek Roy

3

5

Maple Leafs

Mikhail Grabovski (EV) assisted by Carl Gunnarsson and Joey Crabb

4

5