Roster · 2018-19

Every Sabre, by the numbers

Team

Buffalo Sabres

Season2018-19

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 · 19

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

L97Jeff Skinner82 GP · 1518 min+2.34WAR C92Jack Eichel77 GP · 1574 min+1.78WAR C88Sam Reinhart82 GP · 1555 min+1.50WAR L71Conor Sheary78 GP · 1140 min+1.03WAR R70Jason Pominville73 GP · 910 min+0.96WAR C56Evan Rodrigues74 GP · 1171 min+0.67WAR C55Casey Mittelstadt77 GP · 1036 min+0.66WAR L46Johan Larsson73 GP · 1043 min+0.53WAR C44Zemgus Girgensons72 GP · 980 min+0.52WAR R36Kyle Okposo78 GP · 1075 min+0.40WAR C13Patrik Berglund23 GP · 300 min+0.08WAR C5Tage Thompson65 GP · 788 min+0.01WAR C3Vladimir Sobotka69 GP · 979 min-0.02WAR L—Alex Nylander12 GP · 146 min+0.03WAR L—Remi Elie16 GP · 166 min+0.02WAR L—C.J. Smith11 GP · 117 min+0.01WAR L—Victor Olofsson6 GP · 108 min+0.01WAR C—Scott Wilson15 GP · 172 min+0.01WAR C—Danny O'Regan1 GP · 12 min-0.00WAR

Defense · 13

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D85Rasmus Dahlin82 GP · 1735 min+1.12WAR D67Rasmus Ristolainen78 GP · 1922 min+0.66WAR D64Jake McCabe59 GP · 1118 min+0.59WAR D52Lawrence Pilut33 GP · 575 min+0.35WAR D39Casey Nelson38 GP · 586 min+0.20WAR D28Marco Scandella63 GP · 1110 min+0.11WAR D27Nathan Beaulieu48 GP · 744 min+0.11WAR D21Zach Bogosian65 GP · 1406 min+0.07WAR D14Brandon Montour82 GP · 1841 min+0.04WAR D—Matt Hunwick14 GP · 220 min+0.03WAR D—Will Borgen4 GP · 66 min+0.00WAR D—Brendan Guhle8 GP · 120 min+0.00WAR D—Matt Tennyson4 GP · 43 min-0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 2

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

G63Carter Hutton50 GP · 2840 min+2.49WAR G47Linus Ullmark37 GP · 2102 min+1.34WAR

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