The Buffalo Sabres were defeated by the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4 to 3, in overtime on December 22, 2008.

Final

Penguins

18-11-4

4

Sabres

16-13-5

3

Team

PIT

BUF

1

0

1

2

3

1

0

OT

1

0

Total

4

3

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

PIT

BUF

Daniel Paille (EV) assisted by Teppo Numminen and Adam Mair

0

1

2nd period

PIT

BUF

Ales Kotalik (EV) assisted by Daniel Paille and Adam Mair

0

2

Pascal Dupuis (EV) assisted by Miroslav Satan and Brooks Orpik

1

2

Alex Goligoski (EV) assisted by Evgeni Malkin and Ruslan Fedotenko

2

Clarke MacArthur (PP) assisted by Ales Kotalik and Teppo Numminen

2

3

3rd period

PIT

BUF

Alex Goligoski (PP) assisted by Evgeni Malkin and Jordan Staal

3

OT

PIT

BUF

Sidney Crosby (EV) assisted by Evgeni Malkin and Alex Goligoski

4

3

Penguins

Sabres

Goals

4

3

Shots

22

35

Penalty Minutes

17

7

Power-Play Goals

1

Power-Play Opportunities

1

6

Faceoff Wins

33

32

Hits

16

10

Giveaways

12

16

Takeaways

2

5

Penguins

Sabres

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Marc-Andre Fleury (W)	1	35	3	32	.914	60:40

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Philippe Boucher	0	0	+1	4	0	20:42	2	1	1	0
Matt Cooke	0	0	-2	0	0	15:31	4	0	0	0
Sidney Crosby	1	0	+1	0	2	19:56	0	0	0	1
Pascal Dupuis	1	0	+1	0	1	20:32	4	0	1	0
Mark Eaton	0	0	-1	0	2	21:28	0	4	0	0
Ruslan Fedotenko	0	1	+1	0	1	14:55	0	0	0	0
Eric Godard	0	0	0	7	1	4:34	0	0	0	0
Alex Goligoski	2	1	+1	0	3	16:42	1	1	0	0
Kris Letang	0	0	-1	0	3	18:01	1	1	0	0
Evgeni Malkin	0	3	+3	2	1	19:14	0	0	3	0
Brooks Orpik	0	1	+1	2	1	22:09	1	4	0	0
Miroslav Satan	0	1	+1	2	2	15:55	0	0	2	0
Rob Scuderi	0	0	+1	0	0	22:13	0	2	1	1
Jordan Staal	0	1	-2	0	2	16:40	1	1	3	0
Petr Sykora	0	0	+1	0	2	16:47	0	0	0	0
Jeff Taffe	0	0	0	0	0	5:50	0	0	0	0
Max Talbot	0	0	-2	0	0	14:25	1	0	0	0
Tim Wallace	0	0	0	0	1	6:09	1	0	0	0

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Ryan Miller (O)	1	22	4	18	.818	60:43

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Maxim Afinogenov	0	0	0	0	0	9:33	0	0	2	0
Chris Butler	0	0	+2	0	1	11:08	1	1	0	0
Matt Ellis	0	0	-1	0	3	12:46	0	0	0	0
Jochen Hecht	0	0	0	0	0	8:33	0	0	0	0
Ales Kotalik	1	1	+2	0	3	17:21	0	0	0	0
Toni Lydman	0	0	-3	0	0	20:33	2	0	3	0
Clarke MacArthur	1	0	0	0	5	19:44	0	2	2	0
Adam Mair	0	2	+2	0	0	16:30	1	0	0	0
Teppo Numminen	0	2	+2	0	0	18:49	1	0	2	2
Daniel Paille	1	1	+2	2	1	15:18	1	1	1	0
Andrew Peters	0	0	0	5	0	3:05	0	0	0	0
Jason Pominville	0	0	-1	0	2	18:00	2	0	0	0
Derek Roy	0	0	-2	0	5	25:25	0	0	0	1
Andrej Sekera	0	0	0	0	1	20:28	0	1	1	0
Jaroslav Spacek	0	0	0	0	3	23:01	0	3	2	0
Drew Stafford	0	0	-1	0	2	23:09	2	0	1	1
Henrik Tallinder	0	0	-3	0	1	21:19	0	3	0	1
Thomas Vanek	0	0	-3	0	8	17:28	0	0	2	0