Roster · 2012-13

Every Sabre, by the numbers

Team

Buffalo Sabres

Season2012-13

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 · 18

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

R89Jason Pominville47 GP · 949 min+1.39WAR C81Cody Hodgson48 GP · 883 min+1.20WAR R67Tyler Ennis47 GP · 840 min+0.92WAR L62Marcus Foligno47 GP · 641 min+0.87WAR L61Thomas Vanek38 GP · 699 min+0.86WAR R58Drew Stafford46 GP · 783 min+0.81WAR C29Nathan Gerbe42 GP · 525 min+0.40WAR C26Brian Flynn26 GP · 382 min+0.37WAR C25Jochen Hecht47 GP · 644 min+0.35WAR C24Kevin Porter31 GP · 472 min+0.34WAR R18Patrick Kaleta34 GP · 367 min+0.28WAR C15Steve Ott48 GP · 891 min+0.25WAR C6Mikhail Grigorenko25 GP · 256 min+0.15WAR L—Ville Leino8 GP · 126 min+0.07WAR L—John Scott34 GP · 185 min+0.03WAR C—Luke Adam4 GP · 39 min+0.00WAR C—Cody McCormick8 GP · 52 min-0.00WAR L—Matt Ellis6 GP · 37 min-0.01WAR

Defense · 11

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D83Christian Ehrhoff47 GP · 1184 min+1.12WAR D59Jordan Leopold39 GP · 782 min+0.79WAR D40TJ Brennan29 GP · 484 min+0.57WAR D34Andrej Sekera37 GP · 785 min+0.51WAR D34Tyler Myers39 GP · 831 min+0.51WAR D12Robyn Regehr41 GP · 796 min+0.24WAR D11Mark Pysyk19 GP · 309 min+0.21WAR D9Alexander Sulzer17 GP · 281 min+0.18WAR D4Adam Pardy17 GP · 281 min+0.11WAR D1Mike Weber42 GP · 771 min-0.05WAR D—Chad Ruhwedel7 GP · 99 min+0.02WAR

Goaltenders · 2

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

G92Ryan Miller40 GP · 2302 min+5.33WAR G44Jhonas Enroth12 GP · 623 min+1.15WAR

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