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Buffalo Sabres, 2022-23

Be the GM of the Buffalo Sabres Take over the 2022-23 team: trade, manage the cap and simulate the season.

Atlantic Division, Eastern Conference

2022-23 record

League rank GP Record Points Points % Goals for Goals against Diff Home Away
19 82 42-33-7 91 0.555 296 300 -4 17-20-4 25-13-3

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

Analytics

Five-on-five, from 82 games. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones. What these numbers mean

51.4Corsi for %14th of 32 · 3,801 attempts for, 3,600 against
50.4Fenwick for %16th of 32 · unblocked attempts
49.8Shots for %20th of 32 · shots on goal
49.6Expected goals for %18th of 32 · 185.6 expected for, 188.5 against
49.1Goals for %19th of 32 · 197 for, 204 against
99.7PDO9.4% shooting + 90.3% saves

Each share is coloured by where it ranks among the 32 teams: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. PDO is left plain, since it is neither good nor bad on its own.

Form through the season

Share of expected goals Share of shot attempts

40%45%50%55%60%Game 20Game 40Game 60Game 80Expected goalsShot attemptsThe team's share over its last 10 games

Each point looks back over the last 10 games at five-on-five. Above 50% the team was getting the better of play, below it the worse. The expected goals line counts each chance for what it was worth, and the shot attempts line counts them all alike.

Lines and pairings

The three forwards and the two defencemen who spent the most time on the ice together at five-on-five, and how the team did while they were out: its share of the shot attempts and of the expected goals, and the goals for and against. Time is minutes and seconds across the season.

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Tage Thompson60577:3654.251.742-32
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Peyton Krebs52421:4955.649.011-15
Dylan Cozens · Jack Quinn · JJ Peterka47389:1850.454.118-24
Victor Olofsson · Tyson Jost · Casey Mittelstadt29246:0953.553.811-16
Kyle Okposo · Zemgus Girgensons · Tyson Jost41176:1149.353.53-4
Jeff Skinner · Alex Tuch · Casey Mittelstadt19110:2157.156.611-4
Defence pairGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Henri Jokiharju · Owen Power59691:5848.946.538-38
Mattias Samuelsson · Rasmus Dahlin51667:0648.649.339-31
Jacob Bryson · Ilya Lyubushkin42293:2046.541.29-16
Rasmus Dahlin · Owen Power68228:3358.052.515-5
Henri Jokiharju · Rasmus Dahlin47224:0459.761.611-13

The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines and pairs that played a fair amount together: at least a tenth of the time of the busiest one. Hover over one for its percentile.

Where the shots come from

Shots for
Shots against

Every attempt in all situations, with the net being shot at on the right. Darker red means more attempts from that spot. Click a line in a key to see only that kind; Goals marks where each one was scored from.

Value for money

$56.4MCap space usedthe cap hits of its 25 ranked players
$56.6MWorth at the going rate54.6 goals above replacement
+$231KValue19th of 32 · worth less cap space used

What the team got for its cap space in the regular season, counting the players with enough games to be ranked and a known contract. A player's season is worth what teams as a whole paid for one like it, and value is that less his cap hit. A player who changed teams is shared out by the games he played for each. How value is worked out

Roster

Everyone who played for the team this season, with their stats in those games. Cap hit is what a player counts against the salary cap for the whole season, and Value what his season was worth at the going rate less that, once he has enough games to be ranked. A star marks a cap hit a former team pays part of: this team's share is shown, and his value here is worked out from it. CF% and xGF% are a skater's share of the shot attempts and the expected goals while he was on the ice at five-on-five. Rating is goals above replacement: the goals a player added to the goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. For a player who changed teams they cover his whole season. Each is coloured by where it ranks in the league, as on the player's own page, from green for the top fifth to red for the bottom fifth. Hover over one for its percentile.

Skater Pos GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits CF% xGF% Rating Cap hit Value
Tage Thompson C 78 47 47 94 4 39 295 55 53.5 50.4 +14.1 $1.4M+$9.5M
Jeff Skinner L 79 35 47 82 15 39 242 21 54.5 51.8 +13.9 $9M+$1.7M
Alex Tuch R 74 36 43 79 14 20 218 54 53.8 51.7 +11.7 $4.75M+$4.4M
Rasmus Dahlin D 78 15 58 73 12 92 204 105 53.5 53.0 +13.9 $6M+$4.7M
Dylan Cozens C 81 31 37 68 -3 41 211 55 48.9 49.8 +5.2 $894K+$3.6M
Casey Mittelstadt C 82 15 44 59 -8 22 135 30 51.4 49.6 +6.5 $2.5M+$2.9M
Victor Olofsson L 75 28 12 40 -23 4 161 16 50.2 46.7 +0.8 $4.75M-$3.5M
Jack Quinn R 75 14 23 37 -7 15 126 43 50.4 51.4 +4.8 $863K+$3.3M
Owen Power D 80 4 31 35 10 24 130 27 52.3 49.4 -2.5 $917K-$2M
JJ Peterka R 77 12 20 32 -15 26 125 18 49.1 49.0 -0.7 $856K-$633K
Kyle Okposo R 75 11 17 28 -7 34 150 78 52.6 50.0 +1.5 $6M-$4.2M
Peyton Krebs C 74 9 17 26 -8 50 78 93 52.5 46.9 -2.3 $863K-$1.8M
Tyson Jost C 59 7 15 22 -9 23 88 50 48.0 48.5 +1.7 $2M-$75K
Zemgus Girgensons C 80 10 8 18 -5 14 114 96 52.0 49.9 +3.2 $2.2M+$803K
Ilya Lyubushkin D 68 2 12 14 -2 38 41 99 47.9 45.5 -3.2 $2.75M-$4.3M
Henri Jokiharju D 60 3 10 13 -12 30 79 63 50.6 49.5 -3.8 $2.5M-$4.5M
Vinnie Hinostroza C 26 2 9 11 -1 6 38 1 49.9 45.6 +0.1 $1.7M-$906K
Mattias Samuelsson D 55 2 8 10 14 20 76 107 48.3 49.0 -1.8 $925K-$1.5M
Jacob Bryson D 59 1 8 9 -24 8 27 34 50.1 46.8 -1.9 $1.85M-$2.5M
Rasmus Asplund C 27 2 6 8 0 0 33 10 45.8 44.1 -2.4 $825K-$1.9M
Jordan Greenway L 17 4 0 4 -3 0 31 28 45.7 48.9 -1.0 $3M-$3M
Kale Clague D 33 0 4 4 -3 24 24 24 53.2 51.7 -1.0 $750K-$767K
Casey Fitzgerald D 23 0 3 3 -1 4 12 29 49.2 43.8 -2.0 $750K-$1.4M
Lawrence Pilut D 17 1 2 3 -4 0 14 6 52.6 47.0 +0.7 $750K
Riley Stillman D 18 1 2 3 1 13 8 29 50.0 46.9 -2.0 $1.35M-$2.1M
Lukas Rousek R 2 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 57.1 58.0 +0.4 $830K
Anders Bjork L 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 51.3 52.6 +2.1 $1.6M
Jeremy Davies D 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 40.0 29.4 -0.4 $750K
Riley Sheahan C 2 0 0 0 -2 4 0 0 45.8 52.0 -0.3 $950K
Goalie GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save % Saved above xG Rating Cap hit Value
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 33 1054 940 115 0.892 -11.6 -1.1 $838K-$331K
Craig Anderson 26 823 747 76 0.908 +0.2 +7.9
Eric Comrie 19 594 526 68 0.886 -8.9 -2.9 $1.8M
Devon Levi 7 222 201 21 0.905 +1.8 +4.1 $925K

Results

Date Opponent Result Shots for Shots against
Apr 14, 2023 @ CBJ W 5-2 35 31
Apr 13, 2023 vs OTT W 4-3 (OT) 36 33
Apr 11, 2023 @ NJD L 2-6 38 30
Apr 10, 2023 @ NYR W 3-2 (SO) 39 28
Apr 8, 2023 vs CAR W 4-3 30 34
Apr 6, 2023 @ DET W 7-6 (SO) 36 32
Apr 4, 2023 @ FLA L 1-2 40 36
Apr 1, 2023 @ PHI W 6-3 29 42
Mar 31, 2023 vs NYR W 3-2 (OT) 34 33
Mar 27, 2023 vs MTL L 3-4 (SO) 33 41
Mar 25, 2023 @ NYI W 2-0 35 26
Mar 24, 2023 vs NJD W 5-4 26 31
Mar 21, 2023 vs NSH L 3-7 31 27
Mar 19, 2023 vs BOS L 0-7 26 25
Mar 17, 2023 @ PHI L 2-5 38 22
Mar 15, 2023 @ WSH L 4-5 (SO) 27 39
Mar 13, 2023 @ TOR W 4-3 29 28
Mar 11, 2023 vs NYR L 1-2 (OT) 33 26
Mar 9, 2023 vs DAL L 4-10 29 49
Mar 7, 2023 @ NYI L 2-3 24 39
Mar 6, 2023 vs EDM L 2-3 39 37
Mar 4, 2023 vs TBL W 5-3 34 36
Mar 2, 2023 @ BOS L 1-7 27 42
Feb 28, 2023 vs CBJ L 3-5 41 36
Feb 26, 2023 vs WSH W 7-4 37 30
Feb 24, 2023 @ FLA W 3-1 33 50
Feb 23, 2023 @ TBL W 6-5 (OT) 23 41
Feb 21, 2023 vs TOR L 3-6 32 29
Feb 18, 2023 @ SJS W 4-2 31 35
Feb 15, 2023 @ ANA W 7-3 44 22
Feb 13, 2023 @ LAK L 2-5 29 28
Feb 11, 2023 vs CGY L 2-7 23 40
Feb 1, 2023 vs CAR L 1-5 30 34
Jan 28, 2023 @ MIN L 2-3 (SO) 31 35
Jan 26, 2023 @ WPG W 3-2 36 21
Jan 24, 2023 @ STL W 5-3 31 28
Jan 23, 2023 @ DAL W 3-2 (OT) 25 31
Jan 21, 2023 vs ANA W 6-3 39 37
Jan 19, 2023 vs NYI W 3-2 (OT) 45 26
Jan 17, 2023 @ CHI L 3-4 (OT) 33 26
Jan 16, 2023 vs FLA L 1-4 29 34
Jan 14, 2023 @ NSH W 5-3 33 41
Jan 12, 2023 vs WPG L 2-4 41 27
Jan 10, 2023 vs SEA L 3-4 35 22
Jan 9, 2023 vs PHI L 0-4 28 38
Jan 7, 2023 vs MIN W 6-5 (OT) 37 44
Jan 3, 2023 @ WSH W 5-4 (OT) 29 32
Jan 1, 2023 @ OTT L 1-3 34 33
Dec 31, 2022 @ BOS W 4-3 (OT) 25 40
Dec 29, 2022 vs DET W 6-3 35 31
Dec 19, 2022 @ VGK W 3-2 18 43
Dec 17, 2022 @ ARI W 5-2 43 31
Dec 15, 2022 @ COL W 4-2 21 41
Dec 13, 2022 vs LAK W 6-0 31 40
Dec 10, 2022 @ PIT L 1-3 38 31
Dec 9, 2022 vs PIT L 3-4 (OT) 31 33
Dec 7, 2022 @ CBJ W 9-4 30 24
Dec 4, 2022 vs SJS W 6-3 38 29
Dec 1, 2022 vs COL L 4-6 28 34
Nov 30, 2022 @ DET W 5-4 (SO) 34 45
Nov 28, 2022 vs TBL L 5-6 (OT) 37 25
Nov 25, 2022 vs NJD L 1-3 34 44
Nov 23, 2022 vs STL W 6-2 32 36
Nov 22, 2022 @ MTL W 7-2 38 31
Nov 19, 2022 @ TOR L 2-5 34 23
Nov 16, 2022 @ OTT L 1-4 30 40
Nov 15, 2022 vs VAN L 4-5 32 32
Nov 12, 2022 vs BOS L 1-3 31 30
Nov 10, 2022 vs VGK L 4-7 35 36
Nov 8, 2022 vs ARI L 1-4 33 24
Nov 5, 2022 @ TBL L 3-5 24 30
Nov 4, 2022 @ CAR L 3-5 25 33
Nov 2, 2022 vs PIT W 6-3 33 21
Oct 31, 2022 vs DET W 8-3 46 18
Oct 29, 2022 vs CHI W 4-3 (OT) 45 26
Oct 27, 2022 vs MTL L 2-3 45 34
Oct 25, 2022 @ SEA L 1-5 16 24
Oct 22, 2022 @ VAN W 5-1 27 30
Oct 20, 2022 @ CGY W 6-3 32 43
Oct 18, 2022 @ EDM W 4-2 24 48
Oct 15, 2022 vs FLA L 3-4 27 37
Oct 13, 2022 vs OTT W 4-1 36 36