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Roster · 2016-17

Every Sabre, by the numbers

TeamBuffalo Sabres
Season2016-17

Each player is rated out of 100 against NHL players at his position. The bar underneath is his wins above replacement, on a league scale with replacement level marked.

Forwards · 23

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

C96Ryan O'Reilly72 GP · 1545 min+2.08WARC75Sam Reinhart79 GP · 1360 min+1.20WARC71Jack Eichel61 GP · 1215 min+1.10WARR65Kyle Okposo65 GP · 1233 min+0.96WARL57Marcus Foligno80 GP · 1238 min+0.80WARL56Matt Moulson81 GP · 940 min+0.79WARC52Zemgus Girgensons75 GP · 987 min+0.70WARR50Brian Gionta82 GP · 1362 min+0.64WARL40Evander Kane70 GP · 1344 min+0.43WARR33Tyler Ennis51 GP · 655 min+0.31WARL31Johan Larsson36 GP · 607 min+0.27WARC23Evan Rodrigues30 GP · 388 min+0.16WARL21William Carrier41 GP · 369 min+0.15WARR15Justin Bailey32 GP · 340 min+0.09WARL7Nicolas Deslauriers42 GP · 312 min+0.01WARC2Derek Grant46 GP · 449 min-0.11WARC—Cal O'Reilly11 GP · 87 min+0.01WARR—Nick Baptiste14 GP · 129 min+0.01WARR—Hudson Fasching10 GP · 104 min+0.01WARL—Alex Nylander4 GP · 49 min+0.00WARL—C.J. Smith2 GP · 23 min+0.00WARC—Sean Malone1 GP · 12 min+0.00WARL—Cole Schneider4 GP · 29 min-0.00WAR
Defense · 12

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D61Cody Franson68 GP · 1257 min+0.66WARD58Jake McCabe76 GP · 1574 min+0.64WARD44Zach Bogosian56 GP · 1125 min+0.37WARD40Justin Falk52 GP · 712 min+0.29WARD25Taylor Fedun27 GP · 361 min+0.12WARD22Rasmus Ristolainen79 GP · 2091 min+0.07WARD17Josh Gorges66 GP · 1218 min+0.04WARD16Dmitry Kulikov47 GP · 1029 min+0.03WARD—Brendan Guhle3 GP · 49 min+0.00WARD—Erik Burgdoerfer2 GP · 22 min+0.00WARD—Brady Austin5 GP · 81 min+0.00WARD—Casey Nelson11 GP · 139 min-0.00WAR
Goaltenders · 3

Goalie WAR reaches higher than a skater's, so the bar uses its own league scale.

G75Anders Nilsson26 GP · 1484 min+3.36WARG55Robin Lehner59 GP · 3406 min+2.31WARG—Linus Ullmark1 GP · 59 min+0.10WAR

A rating needs a minimum workload. Players below it show an em dash rather than a rank built on too few minutes, and are listed last by WAR. How this is calculated