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Roster · 2020-21

Every Sabre, by the numbers

TeamBuffalo Sabres
Season2020-21

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 · 22

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

L89Taylor Hall53 GP · 947 min+1.45WARC82Sam Reinhart54 GP · 1055 min+1.26WARL72Jeff Skinner53 GP · 770 min+1.01WARL62Victor Olofsson56 GP · 974 min+0.83WARC56Eric Staal53 GP · 780 min+0.74WARC55Casey Mittelstadt41 GP · 651 min+0.73WARL47Anders Bjork45 GP · 625 min+0.63WARC39Jack Eichel21 GP · 431 min+0.54WARC37Dylan Cozens41 GP · 589 min+0.52WARC35Curtis Lazar50 GP · 666 min+0.49WARC31Riley Sheahan53 GP · 705 min+0.45WARC28Tage Thompson38 GP · 527 min+0.40WARL15Tobias Rieder44 GP · 539 min+0.24WARC14Rasmus Asplund28 GP · 360 min+0.24WARL13Drake Caggiula38 GP · 472 min+0.23WARR13Kyle Okposo35 GP · 486 min+0.23WARC11Cody Eakin46 GP · 595 min+0.21WARC—Arttu Ruotsalainen17 GP · 238 min+0.14WARC—Steven Fogarty9 GP · 106 min+0.01WARL—Brett Murray2 GP · 21 min+0.00WARC—Jean-Sebastien Dea1 GP · 6 min+0.00WARL—C.J. Smith1 GP · 8 min+0.00WAR
Defense · 11

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D77Rasmus Dahlin56 GP · 1210 min+1.05WARD57Colin Miller48 GP · 864 min+0.76WARD41Brandon Montour50 GP · 1024 min+0.53WARD34Rasmus Ristolainen49 GP · 1091 min+0.46WARD25Henri Jokiharju46 GP · 846 min+0.34WARD23Jacob Bryson38 GP · 724 min+0.32WARD4Jake McCabe13 GP · 249 min+0.09WARD3Matt Irwin24 GP · 390 min+0.06WARD—Mattias Samuelsson12 GP · 216 min+0.08WARD—Will Borgen10 GP · 163 min+0.03WARD—Brandon Davidson6 GP · 92 min+0.01WAR
Goaltenders · 6

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

G79Linus Ullmark20 GP · 1117 min+1.87WARG26Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen4 GP · 217 min+0.04WARG20Dustin Tokarski13 GP · 729 min-0.12WARG19Michael Houser4 GP · 243 min-0.19WARG10Jonas Johansson15 GP · 817 min-0.39WARG7Carter Hutton13 GP · 675 min-0.52WAR

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