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Buffalo Sabres, 2026-27

Be the GM of the Buffalo Sabres Take over the 2026-27 team: trade, manage the cap and simulate the season.

Atlantic Division, Eastern Conference

2026-27 record

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

Analytics

Five-on-five, from 3 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.

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.

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: $6.44M in all. What dead cap is

Draft picks

The team's picks in the coming drafts, round by round. Each tile carries the logo of the team whose pick it was; a faded one is a pick of its own that another team now holds. Hover over a pick for the trade it came from or the condition on it. Trade them in Be a GM

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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. The season is still being played, so each rating is projected over all of it: what the player has done so far, plus the games left at a rate taken from his last three seasons and this one. 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
Owen Power	D	3	1	4	5	3	0	3	1	61.2	71.6	+6.7	$8.35M	-$1.2M
Tage Thompson	C	3	2	2	4	3	2	17	3	54.3	65.6	+10.7	$7.143M	+$3.9M
Noah Ostlund	C	3	1	2	3	2	0	7	0	61.3	65.6	+2.3	$887K	+$2.2M
Jack Quinn	R	3	2	0	2	1	0	11	3	63.5	66.1	+3.8	$3.375M	+$1M
Jiri Kulich	C	3	1	1	2	2	0	4	4	61.5	66.8	+0.2	$887K	+$104K
Mattias Samuelsson	D	3	1	1	2	-2	4	4	3	57.1	54.5	+2.3	$4.286M	-$1.3M
Peyton Krebs	C	3	0	2	2	0	2	2	3	49.2	64.8	+1.8	$4.5M	-$2M
Rasmus Dahlin	D	3	1	1	2	1	2	10	7	59.8	58.7	+15.2	$11M	+$4.3M
Josh Norris	C	3	0	1	1	1	0	2	4	61.0	65.3	+3.1	$7.95M	-$4.2M
Konsta Helenius	C	3	1	0	1	0	0	5	4	57.1	58.3	+0.8	$975K
Louis Crevier	D	3	0	1	1	1	0	4	4	57.1	59.1	+0.0	$900K	-$49K
Ryan McLeod	C	3	0	1	1	-3	2	2	0	51.0	50.6	+4.1	$5M	-$260K
Zach Benson	L	3	0	1	1	1	4	4	5	66.3	65.1	+6.9	$7.5M	-$141K
Zach Metsa	D	3	0	1	1	1	5	0	1	53.2	53.6	+0.7	$850K	+$653K
Beck Malenstyn	L	3	0	0	0	-3	0	1	12	50.0	27.0	+2.2	$2.917M	+$16K
Josh Doan	R	3	0	0	0	0	2	4	5	55.3	60.3	+6.4	$6.95M	-$27K
Justin Danforth	R	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	100.0	100.0	+0.2	$1.8M	-$813K
Matt Grzelcyk	D	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	46.2	41.6	-1.3	$850K	-$1.3M
Olen Zellweger	D	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	63.0	71.0	+4.3	$3.1M	+$1.8M
Sam Carrick	C	2	0	0	0	-2	0	1	3	47.4	24.6	-1.6	$1M	-$1.7M

Goalie	GP	Shots against	Saves	Goals against	Save %	Saved above xG	Rating	Cap hit	Value
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen	2	37	29	8	0.784	-3.5	+9.1	$4.75M	-$1.3M
Colten Ellis	1	20	18	2	0.900	0.0	+4.2	$850K

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