ATLANTA (AP) -- Pavel Bure scored his 299th career goal Friday night. Norm Maracle made sure the Russian Rocket didn't reach 300 against the Atlanta Thrashers.

Maracle made 37 saves, including two brilliant stops on Bure in overtime, to preserve a 3-3 tie with the Florida Panthers.

	Atlanta goalie Norm Maracle was outstanding Friday as he forced Scott Mellanby's Panthers to settle for a tie.

"He's a great player. That's why he scores so many goals," Maracle said. "I just got a little lucky."

Bure scored his 32nd goal of the season with 8:48 left in regulation, giving the Panthers a short-lived 3-2 lead. But Yannick Tremblay evened the score for the Thrashers on a short-handed goal with 4:14 remaining.

Bure, playing his 477th career game, had a couple of prime chances in overtime to become the seventh-fastest player in NHL history to reach 300 goals.

Maracle, who has struggled through an up-and-down season, turned aside the Florida star on a breakaway with 1:40 to go in the extra period, smothering a low shot.

Then, Bure led a 2-on-1 with the clock winding down, firing a high shot toward the right corner of the net. Maracle gloved the puck and held on with 20 seconds remaining.

"It is another fine example of what Norm Maracle can do for us," Thrashers coach Curt Fraser said. "We have to get him to the point where we can get him playing consecutive games like that."

Mikhail Shtalenkov made 27 saves for the Southeast-leading Panthers, who have lost only once in their last seven games.

"We had a lot of scoring chances out of 40 shots," Florida coach Terry Murray said. "Maracle played real well. He stopped Pavel Bure there ... late in the game. Boy, he had a pretty good night's work."

During a wild third period, the Panthers fell behind 2-1, fought back to grab a 3-2 lead, then surrendered the goal to Tremblay that sent the game to overtime.

The Atlanta defenseman grabbed a loose puck and spearheaded a 3-on-1 while the Thrashers were killing off a three-minute Florida power play, resulting from Denny Lambert's five-minute unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

With Shtalenkov cheating toward the middle of the net, Tremblay scored on the stick side from just inside the left circle, his fifth goal.

"We tried to be a little cute in the offensive end and we paid a price for it," Murray said. "We wanted to win it, but their goaltender wouldn't let us."

The teams traded goals in the second period before Andreas Karlsson put the Thrashers ahead at 4:47 of the third. He muscled in from the right side and flipped the puck over the fallen Shtalenkov.

The Panthers tied it up when Mark Parrish scored his 16th at 7:25, taking advantage of one of the few mistakes by Maracle. Parrish skated in from the corner and slipped the puck between Maracle and the post.

Less than five minutes later, Ryan Johnson fed a pass across the crease to Bure, who banged in the goal that tied the team's season record shared by Scott Mellanby and Ray Whitney.

After a scoreless first period, the Panthers broke through at 4:23 of the second when Oleg Kvasha scored off his fourth goal off a rebound.

Roman Ndur tied it up for Atlanta in similar fashion, banging in a rebound at 10:10. It was his first goal with the Thrashers, who acquired the Nigerian native off waivers from the New York Rangers last month.

The Thrashers lost All-Star defenseman Petr Buzek with a groin strain in the second period. He did not return and it wasn't known if he'll be able to play Monday against the New York Rangers.