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Buffalo Sabres, 2025-26

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Atlantic Division, Eastern Conference Won the Atlantic Division Made the playoffs

2025-26 record

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

Analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Five-on-five, from 82 games. What these numbers mean

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

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.

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

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.

Playoffs

Round	Opponent	Result
1st Round	Boston Bruins	Won 4-2
2nd Round	Montréal Canadiens	Lost 3-4

Value for money

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

Dead cap

What the team counted against the cap this season for players who were no longer on it: $4.44M in all. What dead cap is

Roster

Everyone who played for the team this season, with their stats for it. Colours show where each number ranks in the league, from green (top fifth) to red (bottom fifth). Hover over a number for its percentile.

Cap hit is what a player counts against the salary cap this season. A star beside it means a former team pays part of it, and the amount shown is this team's share. Value is what his season was worth at the going rate, minus his cap hit. It appears once he has played enough to be ranked.

CF% and xGF% are the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals while he was on the ice at five-on-five. Rating is goals above replacement: the goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player who played the same minutes. For a player who changed teams, these numbers cover his whole season.

Skater	Pos	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	CF%	xGF%	Rating	Cap hit	Value
Tage Thompson	C	81	40	41	81	-6	35	272	85	50.3	50.5	+10.4	$7.143M	+$2.5M
Rasmus Dahlin	D	77	19	55	74	18	76	194	67	52.1	54.0	+15.4	$11M	+$2.8M
Alex Tuch	R	79	33	33	66	24	57	195	82	51.5	52.8	+10.5	$4.75M	+$4.9M
Ryan McLeod	C	81	14	40	54	25	16	90	16	50.6	53.4	+4.1	$5M	-$765K
Josh Doan	R	82	25	27	52	-4	25	170	78	51.7	54.4	+13.1	$925K	+$11M
Jack Quinn	R	82	20	31	51	4	18	191	52	49.1	50.4	+3.4	$3.375M	+$288K
Jason Zucker	L	62	24	21	45	-5	23	128	57	49.5	52.3	+5.6	$4.75M	+$769K
Zach Benson	L	65	13	30	43	27	42	116	40	52.0	53.4	+7.7	$950K	+$6.4M
Bowen Byram	D	82	11	31	42	15	48	109	50	49.5	49.8	+3.3	$6.25M	-$2.6M
Mattias Samuelsson	D	78	13	28	41	41	28	109	132	47.4	50.6	+5.2	$4.286M	+$917K
Peyton Krebs	C	82	12	27	39	13	78	93	201	48.4	49.9	+3.3	$1.45M	+$2.2M
Josh Norris	C	44	13	21	34	11	28	69	24	51.0	54.6	+4.4	$7.95M	-$3.4M
Owen Power	D	81	8	21	29	9	16	120	29	51.7	50.1	+1.9	$8.35M	-$6M
Noah Ostlund	C	60	11	16	27	11	14	60	5	51.2	53.5	+4.2	$887K	+$3.4M
Beck Malenstyn	L	81	7	7	14	0	38	72	282	45.9	45.3	+3.8	$1.35M	+$2.6M
Conor Timmins	D	39	0	8	8	-8	18	44	29	45.0	47.6	-2.2	$2.2M	-$3.3M
Isak Rosen	R	16	3	4	7	-3	0	16	7	45.9	45.9	+1.2	$894K	+$887K
Jordan Greenway	L	40	1	5	6	-10	29	32	57	42.8	43.6	-2.6	$4M	-$5.4M
Sam Carrick	C	13	5	1	6	4	12	19	20	47.9	47.7	+0.8	$1M	+$487K
Tyson Kozak	C	46	2	4	6	-1	2	30	120	42.3	41.9	-1.2	$775K	-$984K
Zach Metsa	D	43	2	4	6	16	8	24	5	46.9	48.7	+0.4	$775K	+$312K
Jacob Bryson	D	35	2	3	5	-1	8	12	9	46.5	50.5	+2.2	$900K	+$1.7M
Jiri Kulich	C	12	3	2	5	-4	4	20	9	49.9	41.3	-0.5	$887K
Logan Stanley	D	17	0	5	5	5	29	22	14	47.6	45.4	-2.0	$1.25M	-$2.1M
Josh Dunne	C	34	1	3	4	-7	38	29	40	48.8	47.2	+0.6	$775K	+$537K
Konsta Helenius	C	9	1	3	4	1	0	15	10	57.4	59.8	+2.1	$975K
Michael Kesselring	D	34	0	2	2	0	50	46	25	50.0	51.3	+0.6	$1.4M	-$89K
Tanner Pearson	L	4	0	2	2	2	2	3	6	46.2	45.9	+0.2	$1M	-$75K
Justin Danforth	R	4	0	0	0	-2	2	2	3	39.7	21.0	-0.6	$1.8M
Luke Schenn	D	4	0	0	0	-1	11	3	10	42.9	38.0	-3.5	$2.75M	-$4.9M
Mason Geertsen	L	5	0	0	0	-1	12	1	8	48.4	41.8	-0.3
Ryan Johnson	D	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	44.8	54.1	+0.2	$775K
Trevor Kuntar	C	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	14.3	7.2	-0.4

Goalie	GP	W	L	OTL	SO	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	GAA	Save %	Saved above xG	Rating	Cap hit	Value
Alex Lyon	36	20	10	4	3	979	888	92	2.77	0.907	+8.9	+19.2	$1.5M	+$4.3M
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen	35	22	9	3	1	930	846	85	2.52	0.910	+9.1	+18.6	$4.75M	+$860K
Colten Ellis	16	8	4	2	1	455	411	44	2.90	0.903	+0.3	+4.9	$775K

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