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Buffalo Sabres, 1985-86

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Adams Division, Prince of Wales Conference

1985-86 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
13 80 37-37-6 80 0.500 296 291 +5 23-16-1 14-21-5

Records are wins, then losses, then ties.

Roster

Everyone who played for the team this season, with their stats for it.

Skater Pos GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits
Dave Andreychuk L 80 36 51 87 3 61 226 0
Mike Foligno R 79 41 39 80 27 168 222 0
John Tucker R 75 31 34 65 1 39 146 0
Phil Housley D 79 15 47 62 -10 54 180 0
Gilbert Perreault C 72 21 39 60 -10 28 164 0
Paul Cyr L 71 20 31 51 3 120 151 0
Gilles Hamel L 77 19 25 44 -26 61 158 0
Lindy Ruff L 54 20 12 32 8 158 131 0
Hannu Virta D 47 5 23 28 2 16 81 0
Mike Ramsey D 76 7 21 28 4 117 154 0
Gaetano Orlando C 61 13 12 25 -6 29 70 0
Ric Seiling R 69 12 13 25 -5 74 85 0
Steve Dykstra L 65 4 21 25 -1 108 70 0
Doug Smith C 30 10 11 21 2 73 72 0
Sean Mckenna R 45 6 12 18 -9 28 83 0
Bill Hajt D 58 1 16 17 17 25 42 0
Normand Lacombe R 25 6 7 13 7 13 38 0
Pat Hughes R 50 4 9 13 -5 25 51 0
Bob Halkidis D 37 1 9 10 -2 115 19 0
Mikael Andersson R 33 1 9 10 -1 4 13 0
Richie Dunn D 29 4 5 9 -5 25 55 0
Don Lever C 29 7 1 8 -5 6 31 0
David Fenyves D 47 0 7 7 12 37 31 0
Brian Engblom D 30 1 4 5 2 16 24 0
Jody Gage R 7 3 2 5 -3 0 18 0
Phil Russell D 12 2 3 5 -8 12 15 0
Chris Langevin L 16 2 1 3 3 20 10 0
Larry Playfair D 47 1 2 3 -8 100 34 0
Adam Creighton C 19 1 1 2 -2 2 9 0
Mal Davis L 7 2 0 2 -1 4 5 0
Jim Hofford D 5 0 0 0 -1 5 3 0
Joe Reekie D 3 0 0 0 -2 14 1 0
Paul Gardner C 2 0 0 0 -3 0 4 0
Richard Hajdu L 3 0 0 0 1 4 2 0
Goalie GP WLTOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
Tom Barrasso 60 2924502 1773 1559 214 3.61 0.879
Jacques Cloutier 15 59101 425 377 48 3.32 0.887
Daren Puppa 7 34001 184 163 21 3.15 0.886

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 5, 1986 @ MTL L 2-4 23 31
Apr 4, 1986 vs MTL W 4-2 24 24
Apr 1, 1986 @ HFD L 3-5 25 32
Mar 30, 1986 vs BOS L 3-5 38 28
Mar 29, 1986 @ BOS L 1-2 26 28
Mar 27, 1986 @ PHI W 1-0 22 30
Mar 23, 1986 vs LAK W 6-1 36 25
Mar 21, 1986 vs NJD L 3-6 28 30
Mar 19, 1986 @ VAN W 4-3 21 29
Mar 15, 1986 @ LAK L 3-5 18 41
Mar 12, 1986 @ CHI W 7-6 34 31
Mar 11, 1986 @ STL L 2-3 (OT) 22 34
Mar 9, 1986 vs NJD W 4-3 26 34
Mar 7, 1986 vs HFD L 2-6 26 20
Mar 5, 1986 @ HFD L 1-5 25 33
Mar 4, 1986 @ PHI W 6-4 27 33
Mar 1, 1986 @ QUE W 8-4 38 29
Feb 28, 1986 vs QUE L 2-6 37 28
Feb 26, 1986 @ PIT L 2-5 35 32
Feb 23, 1986 vs WSH W 4-1 33 35
Feb 21, 1986 vs NYI W 5-1 36 21
Feb 19, 1986 vs HFD L 4-6 35 34
Feb 16, 1986 @ EDM L 5-7 43 29
Feb 14, 1986 @ CGY T 3-3 (OT) 22 48
Feb 12, 1986 vs PHI L 0-4 28 32
Feb 9, 1986 vs EDM W 4-2 32 21
Feb 8, 1986 @ HFD W 4-2 25 36
Feb 6, 1986 @ BOS W 8-6 21 44
Feb 2, 1986 vs QUE W 5-3 20 30
Jan 31, 1986 vs NYR W 5-3 34 32
Jan 29, 1986 @ WIN L 3-5 22 35
Jan 27, 1986 @ MTL L 1-4 23 33
Jan 25, 1986 @ QUE L 3-4 28 43
Jan 24, 1986 vs CHI L 3-5 38 32
Jan 22, 1986 vs WIN W 6-3 34 40
Jan 19, 1986 @ NJD W 6-3 36 41
Jan 17, 1986 vs MTL W 5-4 (OT) 31 35
Jan 15, 1986 @ CHI L 2-4 34 27
Jan 11, 1986 @ PIT T 3-3 (OT) 21 29
Jan 10, 1986 vs TOR W 9-7 54 32
Jan 5, 1986 vs LAK L 2-3 24 23
Jan 4, 1986 @ BOS L 0-4 24 43
Jan 2, 1986 @ DET T 2-2 (OT) 27 29
Dec 31, 1985 vs BOS T 6-6 (OT) 35 37
Dec 29, 1985 vs NYI W 4-3 30 24
Dec 26, 1985 vs NYR W 6-1 35 21
Dec 22, 1985 vs BOS W 5-3 28 32
Dec 21, 1985 @ MTL L 1-3 23 33
Dec 18, 1985 @ NYR W 5-4 33 36
Dec 17, 1985 @ NYI L 3-7 42 23
Dec 15, 1985 vs QUE W 6-2 37 24
Dec 13, 1985 vs HFD L 4-6 29 31
Dec 10, 1985 @ QUE L 3-7 25 28
Dec 8, 1985 @ BOS T 3-3 (OT) 30 32
Dec 6, 1985 vs PIT L 1-3 27 30
Dec 4, 1985 @ STL W 6-3 36 29
Nov 30, 1985 @ TOR L 2-3 (OT) 21 28
Nov 29, 1985 vs MTL L 2-5 25 32
Nov 27, 1985 @ DET L 1-4 16 19
Nov 25, 1985 vs MNS L 3-4 30 31
Nov 22, 1985 vs QUE W 7-5 27 37
Nov 19, 1985 @ HFD W 2-0 35 23
Nov 17, 1985 vs TOR L 3-5 23 22
Nov 16, 1985 @ QUE L 1-3 24 30
Nov 13, 1985 vs BOS W 6-4 34 33
Nov 10, 1985 vs CGY W 5-1 41 18
Nov 8, 1985 vs STL W 5-4 22 23
Nov 6, 1985 vs WIN W 7-3 34 26
Nov 2, 1985 @ VAN L 2-6 28 25
Nov 1, 1985 @ EDM W 2-0 39 37
Oct 30, 1985 @ CGY L 2-4 36 32
Oct 27, 1985 vs MNS W 3-2 45 17
Oct 25, 1985 vs VAN W 5-4 31 21
Oct 23, 1985 vs MTL L 4-5 31 26
Oct 19, 1985 @ WSH T 2-2 (OT) 17 20
Oct 18, 1985 vs WSH L 1-4 24 29
Oct 16, 1985 @ MTL W 6-0 34 25
Oct 14, 1985 vs DET W 6-1 44 23
Oct 12, 1985 @ MNS W 6-2 39 30
Oct 10, 1985 vs HFD L 4-5 32 27