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Buffalo Sabres, 2002-03

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Northeast Division, Eastern Conference

2002-03 record

League rank	GP	Record	Points	Points %	Goals for	Goals against	Diff	Home	Away
26	82	27-37-10-8	72	0.439	190	219	-29	18-16-5-2	9-21-5-6

Records are wins, then losses, then ties, then losses in overtime or a shootout.

Roster

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

Skater	Pos	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits
Miroslav Satan	R	79	26	49	75	-3	20	240	12
Chris Gratton	C	66	15	29	44	-5	86	187	35
Ales Kotalik	R	68	21	14	35	-2	30	138	52
J-P Dumont	R	76	14	21	35	-14	44	135	35
Stu Barnes	C	68	11	21	32	-13	20	124	10
Curtis Brown	C	74	15	16	31	4	40	144	10
Taylor Pyatt	L	78	14	14	28	-8	38	110	23
Jochen Hecht	C	49	10	16	26	4	30	145	10
Tim Connolly	C	80	12	13	25	-28	32	159	6
Alexei Zhitnik	D	70	3	18	21	-5	85	138	46
Dmitri Kalinin	D	65	8	13	21	-7	57	83	20
Brian Campbell	D	65	2	17	19	-8	20	90	10
Adam Mair	C	79	6	11	17	-4	146	83	73
James Patrick	D	69	4	12	16	-3	26	63	6
Henrik Tallinder	D	46	3	10	13	-3	28	37	2
Daniel Brière	C	14	7	5	12	1	12	39	4
Maxim Afinogenov	R	35	5	6	11	-12	21	77	11
Vaclav Varada	R	44	7	4	11	-2	23	64	17
Rhett Warrener	D	50	0	9	9	1	63	47	31
Eric Boulton	L	58	1	5	6	1	178	33	19
Jason Botterill	L	17	1	4	5	1	14	20	18
Jay McKee	D	59	0	5	5	-16	49	44	26
Chris Taylor	C	11	1	3	4	-1	2	10	11
Rory Fitzpatrick	D	36	1	3	4	-7	16	29	36
Jason Woolley	D	14	0	3	3	-1	29	29	2
Denis Hamel	L	25	2	0	2	-4	17	41	5
Norman Milley	R	8	0	2	2	-2	6	8	4
Milan Bartovic	R	3	1	0	1	0	0	5	2
Doug Houda	D	1	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0
Doug Janik	D	6	0	0	0	1	2	1	0
Jaroslav Kristek	R	6	0	0	0	-2	4	4	0
Paul Gaustad	C	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Radoslav Hecl	D	14	0	0	0	0	2	3	8
Rob Ray	R	41	0	0	0	-5	92	14	9
Sean McMorrow	R	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goalie	GP	W	L	T	SO	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	GAA	Save %
Martin Biron	54	17	28	6	4	1468	1333	135	2.56	0.908
Mika Noronen	16	4	9	3	1	411	375	36	2.42	0.912
Ryan Miller	15	6	8	1	1	410	370	40	2.63	0.902

Results

Date	Opponent	Result	Shots for	Shots against
Apr 6, 2003	vs NJD	T 2-2 (OT)	30	30
Apr 5, 2003	@ BOS	L 5-8	25	37
Apr 2, 2003	vs ATL	W 4-3	40	23
Mar 31, 2003	@ DAL	L 0-3	18	21
Mar 29, 2003	@ CAR	W 3-1	15	39
Mar 28, 2003	vs MTL	W 4-1	31	27
Mar 26, 2003	vs FLA	W 2-1	26	30
Mar 24, 2003	vs COL	W 4-3 (OT)	35	36
Mar 22, 2003	@ TOR	L 2-3 (OT)	27	19
Mar 19, 2003	@ NYR	L 0-3	27	36
Mar 18, 2003	vs PHI	W 5-2	23	32
Mar 15, 2003	@ ATL	L 3-5	39	24
Mar 14, 2003	vs TBL	L 2-4	28	33
Mar 12, 2003	vs CAR	L 2-3 (OT)	34	34
Mar 9, 2003	@ TBL	T 1-1 (OT)	27	28
Mar 8, 2003	@ FLA	W 4-0	25	29
Mar 6, 2003	vs TOR	W 4-2	26	33
Mar 4, 2003	vs WSH	L 1-2	36	23
Mar 1, 2003	@ NYI	L 1-2 (OT)	37	33
Feb 28, 2003	vs DAL	W 5-3	20	34
Feb 26, 2003	@ WSH	L 2-3	37	31
Feb 24, 2003	@ FLA	T 2-2 (OT)	25	31
Feb 23, 2003	@ TBL	W 4-1	25	31
Feb 21, 2003	vs LAK	L 1-4	32	41
Feb 19, 2003	vs MTL	W 2-1 (OT)	30	26
Feb 17, 2003	@ ATL	L 3-4 (OT)	27	30
Feb 15, 2003	vs NYR	W 5-4	32	52
Feb 13, 2003	@ DET	L 2-4	33	24
Feb 11, 2003	vs STL	L 2-3	29	25
Feb 8, 2003	@ NYI	L 1-3	29	28
Feb 7, 2003	vs VAN	L 2-4	36	30
Feb 4, 2003	@ NJD	L 1-4	20	30
Jan 30, 2003	@ STL	L 1-2 (OT)	17	32
Jan 27, 2003	vs NSH	L 1-5	21	27
Jan 25, 2003	@ OTT	L 3-4 (OT)	24	32
Jan 24, 2003	vs TOR	W 4-0	22	27
Jan 21, 2003	vs PIT	T 0-0 (OT)	34	23
Jan 18, 2003	@ PHX	W 1-0	23	30
Jan 16, 2003	@ SJS	T 2-2 (OT)	25	33
Jan 14, 2003	@ MIN	W 1-0	27	22
Jan 11, 2003	@ MTL	W 3-2	32	27
Jan 10, 2003	vs BOS	W 4-2	30	23
Jan 7, 2003	@ PHI	L 2-3	23	24
Jan 4, 2003	@ OTT	W 2-1 (OT)	21	33
Jan 3, 2003	vs CAR	W 6-3	34	28
Dec 31, 2002	vs NYI	L 0-1 (OT)	38	26
Dec 30, 2002	@ WSH	L 3-4	21	28
Dec 28, 2002	vs MIN	L 3-4	40	29
Dec 26, 2002	vs OTT	L 2-3	22	23
Dec 23, 2002	@ PIT	L 2-5	19	28
Dec 21, 2002	@ MTL	L 2-6	38	16
Dec 20, 2002	vs FLA	L 0-3	30	31
Dec 18, 2002	vs BOS	W 4-2	25	29
Dec 14, 2002	@ PHI	L 0-2	15	33
Dec 13, 2002	vs CHI	T 1-1 (OT)	27	27
Dec 10, 2002	vs OTT	L 2-4	28	30
Dec 7, 2002	vs WSH	W 4-3	44	25
Dec 6, 2002	@ NYR	W 4-1	26	33
Dec 4, 2002	vs ANA	W 4-0	36	22
Nov 30, 2002	@ TOR	L 1-3	20	26
Nov 29, 2002	vs PIT	L 1-4	44	23
Nov 27, 2002	vs TBL	T 1-1 (OT)	23	24
Nov 23, 2002	@ BOS	L 1-4	23	30
Nov 22, 2002	vs CBJ	W 5-4	33	21
Nov 19, 2002	@ NJD	L 3-4 (OT)	34	25
Nov 16, 2002	@ OTT	L 1-4	26	23
Nov 15, 2002	vs TOR	L 2-3	37	28
Nov 12, 2002	vs BOS	L 3-4	37	20
Nov 9, 2002	vs ATL	L 4-6	28	20
Nov 7, 2002	@ CAR	L 0-2	26	21
Nov 3, 2002	@ CBJ	L 2-3	32	26
Nov 1, 2002	@ EDM	T 1-1 (OT)	33	40
Oct 31, 2002	@ CGY	L 0-3	30	17
Oct 29, 2002	@ VAN	T 1-1 (OT)	31	22
Oct 26, 2002	@ PIT	L 2-5	31	23
Oct 25, 2002	vs NJD	L 1-2	24	26
Oct 22, 2002	vs PHI	W 2-1	31	22
Oct 19, 2002	vs PHX	L 2-3	30	28
Oct 17, 2002	vs NYR	T 4-4 (OT)	28	36
Oct 13, 2002	@ CHI	L 0-3	26	32
Oct 12, 2002	@ MTL	W 6-1	31	20
Oct 10, 2002	vs NYI	W 5-1	21	23