The Tampa Bay Lightning lost to the Buffalo Sabres, 4 to 3, on December 6, 2008.

Final

Sabres

12-11-3

4

Lightning

6-12-8

3

Team

BUF

TBL

1

2

3

1

0

Total

4

3

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

BUF

TBL

Drew Stafford (EV) assisted by Paul Gaustad

1

0

Martin St. Louis (EV) assisted by Vincent Lecavalier and Lukas Krajicek

1

2nd period

BUF

TBL

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

2

1

Paul Ranger (EV) assisted by Vincent Lecavalier and Vinny Prospal

2

Jochen Hecht (EV) assisted by Adam Mair and Toni Lydman

3

2

Vinny Prospal (EV) assisted by Marek Malik and Martin St. Louis

3

3rd period

BUF

TBL

Derek Roy (EV) assisted by Teppo Numminen and Drew Stafford

4

3

Sabres

Lightning

Goals

4

3

Shots

27

23

Penalty Minutes

29

Power-Play Goals

0

Power-Play Opportunities

6

Faceoff Wins

18

32

Hits

12

25

Giveaways

4

13

Takeaways

8

7

Sabres

Lightning

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Ryan Miller (W)	1	23	3	20	.870	59:58

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Maxim Afinogenov	0	0	0	0	1	12:46	1	0	1	0
Paul Gaustad	0	1	0	7	3	17:58	1	0	0	0
Nathan Gerbe	0	0	+2	2	4	15:09	0	0	0	1
Jochen Hecht	1	0	-1	9	2	14:34	1	2	1	0
Ales Kotalik	0	0	0	0	3	14:13	0	1	0	0
Toni Lydman	0	1	-1	0	1	19:22	1	1	0	2
Clarke MacArthur	0	0	-1	0	0	8:28	1	0	0	0
Adam Mair	0	1	0	7	1	9:59	1	0	0	0
Teppo Numminen	0	1	+2	0	1	17:33	0	1	2	1
Daniel Paille	0	0	-1	0	0	12:23	3	1	0	1
Jason Pominville	0	0	-1	2	0	20:32	0	1	0	0
Craig Rivet	0	0	-1	0	1	21:00	1	2	0	0
Derek Roy	1	1	+2	2	2	19:51	1	0	0	0
Andrej Sekera	0	0	0	0	0	18:42	1	1	0	0
Jaroslav Spacek	0	0	0	0	2	22:55	0	1	0	2
Drew Stafford	1	2	+3	0	4	16:06	0	0	0	0
Henrik Tallinder	0	0	+2	0	0	10:48	0	0	0	0
Thomas Vanek	1	0	0	0	2	15:09	0	0	0	1

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Mike Smith (L)	1	27	4	23	.852	58:57

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Evgeny Artyukhin	0	0	-1	0	0	6:44	1	0	0	0
Ryan Craig	0	0	-1	0	0	12:57	1	1	0	0
Steve Downie	0	0	-1	5	0	9:24	4	0	0	1
Steve Eminger	0	0	-2	4	0	22:08	2	3	0	0
Jussi Jokinen	0	0	-2	0	1	16:45	2	1	0	1
Lukas Krajicek	0	1	-2	4	0	14:08	0	3	0	0
Vincent Lecavalier	0	2	+2	5	1	21:53	2	0	1	1
Marek Malik	0	1	-1	0	2	19:16	0	0	1	0
Andrej Meszaros	0	0	+1	0	0	24:45	2	2	3	0
Vinny Prospal	1	1	+1	0	3	19:11	2	0	1	0
Paul Ranger	1	0	+1	2	3	23:05	4	2	1	1
Mark Recchi	0	0	-1	0	0	16:29	2	2	2	0
Matt Smaby	0	0	0	2	0	8:32	1	0	0	1
Radek Smolenak	0	0	0	5	1	4:36	1	1	0	0
Martin St. Louis	1	1	+3	0	5	23:55	0	0	1	0
Steven Stamkos	0	0	0	0	4	19:28	0	0	0	0
Paul Szczechura	0	0	-1	2	0	15:21	1	1	1	0
Radim Vrbata	0	0	-1	0	3	10:26	0	1	0	2