One model, one team, shown in full
WARpath Buffalo rates every Sabre, grades every game and leaves the tools a front office runs on out where anyone can use them. The ratings, the grades and the writing are free and always will be.
Who makes it
Jason Moser. I covered the Sabres as a beat reporter for two seasons at Buffalo Hockey Now, which is where the frustration behind this site started: the numbers that would have settled half the arguments in a press box either sat behind a paywall, covered all thirty-two teams shallowly, or did not explain themselves.
I also build PuckLuck and PuckTrades, which run on the same engine. This site is the Buffalo-shaped version, and the one I would have wanted on the beat.
Why one team
A model covering the whole league has to be general. A model covering one team can be checked against what you watched. Every rating here is calibrated so that adding up a roster reproduces what that team actually did — and when it disagrees with your eyes, one of you is wrong in a way worth arguing about.
Why the reading is free
No ads, no paywalled articles, permanently. Ratings and game grades are the point of the place and they stay open. The interactive tools — line chemistry, player comps, the lineup builder — are five dollars a month, and that is what keeps the sixteen seasons of play-by-play behind all of it running.
What it gets wrong
The methodology pagecarries a limits section, and it is not decorative. Team totals run slightly wide. A single line's record is about half luck. Fifty-seven games from 2024-25 are missing because the NHL never published the shift data. A model that cannot tell you where it is weak is asking to be believed rather than checked.