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December 31,2007  (Monday) in Boston,Massachusetts - TD Banknorth Garden	Goals/Period 1 2 3 Tot ATL 2 0 0 2 BOS 0 3 2 5	Shots 1 2 3 Tot ATL 15 9 6 30 BOS 12 12 13 37	PowerPlay PP Game PP Season PK Season ATL 1 / 5 28 / 163 (17.2%) 125 / 162 (77.2%) BOS 3 / 4 29 / 144 (20.1%) 129 / 165 (78.2%)
Start: 1:00pm Attendance: 17,565 Referees: Chris Rooney, Kelly Sutherland Officials: Ryan Galloway, Brian Mach	Atlanta Thrashers Game #40 19-20-1 39 Pts Prev Game vs BOS Next Game at CAR Boston Bruins Game #39 19-16-4 42 Pts Prev Game vs ATL Next Game at WAS Three Stars: (1) Mark Stuart  (BOS)  (2) Glen Metropolit (BOS)  (3) Andrew Ference (BOS)

Goals 1st Period 1. ATL Bobby Holik    [5]  [c312]   (Powerplay)   ( Ilya Kovalchuk [21],  Tobias Enstrom [20] ) 9:18 2. ATL Colin Stuart    [1]  [c1]   ( Todd White [14],  Steve McCarthy [4] ) 13:18 2nd Period 3. BOS Dennis Wideman    [5]  [c19]   (Powerplay)   ( Chuck Kobasew [7],  Andrew Ference [9] ) 4:40 4. BOS P.J. Axelsson    [8]  [c92]   ( Zdeno Chara [17] ) 5:14 5. BOS Mark Stuart    [2]  [c3]   (GW)   ( Peter Schaefer [11],  Glen Metropolit [9] ) 9:40 3rd Period 6. BOS Phil Kessel    [11]  [c22]   (Powerplay)   ( Andrew Ference [10],  David Krejci [4] ) 2:05 7. BOS Matt Lashoff    [1]  [c1]   (Powerplay)   ( Zdeno Chara [18],  Marc Savard [34] ) 6:37 Goalies Goalie Career Team Decision Min GA Shots Saves Record sGAA Kari Lehtonen Career ATL L 60 5 37 32 7-9-0 3.09 Tim Thomas Career BOS W 60 2 30 28 11-9-3 2.34

Penalties 1st Period 1. BOS David Krejci [2] Holding 2 7:25 2. BOS Phil Kessel [3] Tripping 2 9:41 3. BOS Chuck Kobasew [1] Hooking 2 19:03 2nd Period 4. ATL Chris Thorburn [1] Holding 2 3:03 5. BOS Andrew Ference [3] Tripping 2 13:57 3rd Period 6. ATL Tobias Enstrom [1] Interference 2 0:23 7. ATL Niclas Havelid [4] Holding 2 5:48 8. ATL Niclas Havelid [1] Slashing 2 9:04 9. BOS Petteri Nokelainen [1] Tripping 2 17:05

Faceoffs
Atlanta Thrashers   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Bobby Holik 13 8 61.9% 425 315 57.4% Eric Perrin 9 10 47.4% 179 160 52.8% Todd White 7 4 63.6% 313 366 46.1% Brad Larsen 2 5 28.6% 8 14 36.4% Marian Hossa 0 1 .0% 2 5 28.6% Slava Kozlov 0 1 .0% 22 24 47.8%   31 29 51.7% 1194 1179 50.3%	Boston Bruins   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Marc Savard 9 10 47.4% 381 393 49.2% David Krejci 7 9 43.8% 53 75 41.4% Glen Metropolit 5 9 35.7% 285 315 47.5% Petteri Nokelainen 5 3 62.5% 71 55 56.3% Phil Kessel 1 0 100.0% 129 170 43.1% Jeremy Reich 1 0 100.0% 7 1 87.5% Milan Lucic 1 0 100.0% 3 2 60.0%   29 31 48.3% 1084 1203 47.4%

Atlanta Thrashers Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 2 Garnet Exelby D 258 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:16 0:00 2:53 5 Steve McCarthy D 273 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 15:05 0:41 0:00 8 Mark Recchi RW 1368 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 1 17:50 6:30 0:00 9 Pascal Dupuis LW 396 0 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 12:35 0:00 1:46 11 Eric Perrin C 126 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 0 18:29 4:26 2:56 12 Todd White C 454 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 19:10 4:13 2:38 13 Slava Kozlov LW 1004 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 0 14:40 3:21 0:00 16 Bobby Holik C 1211 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 14:31 3:29 0:35 17 Ilya Kovalchuk LW 428 0 1 1 -1 0 5 0 1 22:35 8:16 0:58 18 Marian Hossa RW 667 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 1 23:04 7:31 3:25 22 Ken Klee D 831 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19:04 0:00 2:53 27 Chris Thorburn C 72 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 10:18 0:15 0:00 28 Niclas Havelid D 510 0 0 0 -1 4 0 0 0 14:11 0:38 2:15 29 Brad Larsen LW 262 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:03 0:00 0:00 36 Eric Boulton LW 306 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 8:45 0:12 0:00 39 Tobias Enstrom D 40 0 1 1 -1 2 1 1 0 22:29 8:34 2:04 49 Colin Stuart LW 2 1 0 1 1 0 4 0 3 10:35 0:00 0:00 77 Alexei Zhitnik D 1060 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 25:11 1:19 2:13   10328 2 4 6 -5 8 30 4 11

Boston Bruins Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 6 Dennis Wideman D 180 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 30:23 2:10 7:32 11 P.J. Axelsson LW 686 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 17:10 0:00 4:02 12 Chuck Kobasew RW 259 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 1 17:13 2:12 2:23 13 Glen Metropolit C 219 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 0 16:41 0:00 4:14 16 Marco Sturm LW 718 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 18:38 3:40 4:05 17 Milan Lucic LW 34 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 14:35 3:57 0:00 21 Andrew Ference D 436 0 2 2 0 2 1 1 1 21:54 1:49 1:41 22 Shawn Thornton RW 96 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 0 7:35 0:00 0:00 33 Zdeno Chara D 650 0 2 2 2 0 3 0 6 30:33 4:20 7:55 45 Mark Stuart D 71 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 19:26 0:00 2:28 46 David Krejci C 19 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 14:58 2:12 0:22 48 Matt Hunwick D 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5:21 0:00 0:00 49 Matt Lashoff D 18 1 0 1 -1 0 1 0 0 12:50 3:59 0:10 53 Jeremy Reich LW 68 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 0 11:18 0:00 2:53 56 Petteri Nokelainen RW 42 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 1 6:50 0:00 0:00 72 Peter Schaefer LW 533 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 12:28 0:00 0:00 81 Phil Kessel C 109 1 0 1 0 2 5 0 0 14:59 2:29 0:00 91 Marc Savard C 624 0 1 1 1 0 4 0 0 17:23 3:57 1:47   4967 5 9 14 5 10 37 5 14

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Boston Bruins Transactions Dec 30,2007 - Vladimir Sobotka assigned to Providence Dec 30,2007 - David Krejci recalled from Providence