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Roster · 2025-26

Every Sabre, by the numbers

TeamBuffalo Sabres
Season2025-26

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.

C96Tage Thompson81 GP · 1559 min+1.98WARR90Alex Tuch79 GP · 1501 min+1.48WARR84Josh Doan82 GP · 1301 min+1.28WARC82Ryan McLeod81 GP · 1427 min+1.17WARL70Jason Zucker62 GP · 969 min+0.84WARC69Peyton Krebs82 GP · 1129 min+0.83WARL58Zach Benson65 GP · 1033 min+0.66WARC58Noah Ostlund60 GP · 838 min+0.65WARC51Josh Norris44 GP · 697 min+0.52WARR50Jack Quinn82 GP · 1284 min+0.52WARL40Beck Malenstyn81 GP · 910 min+0.37WARC34Sam Carrick73 GP · 764 min+0.31WARR23Isak Rosen37 GP · 426 min+0.18WARC14Tyson Kozak46 GP · 519 min+0.09WARC14Josh Dunne34 GP · 322 min+0.09WARL12Tanner Pearson57 GP · 618 min+0.08WARL2Jordan Greenway40 GP · 498 min-0.02WARC—Jiri Kulich12 GP · 196 min+0.04WARC—Konsta Helenius9 GP · 107 min+0.02WARC—Trevor Kuntar1 GP · 5 min0.00WARL—Mason Geertsen5 GP · 21 min-0.00WARR—Justin Danforth4 GP · 47 min-0.00WAR
Defense · 11

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D95Rasmus Dahlin77 GP · 1862 min+1.81WARD83Owen Power81 GP · 1754 min+1.11WARD68Bowen Byram82 GP · 1832 min+0.69WARD63Mattias Samuelsson78 GP · 1781 min+0.58WARD40Jacob Bryson50 GP · 543 min+0.25WARD27Logan Stanley76 GP · 1269 min+0.12WARD26Zach Metsa43 GP · 472 min+0.11WARD22Conor Timmins39 GP · 732 min+0.07WARD7Michael Kesselring34 GP · 455 min-0.01WARD4Luke Schenn50 GP · 683 min-0.07WARD—Ryan Johnson3 GP · 27 min-0.00WAR
Goaltenders · 3

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

G82Alex Lyon36 GP · 1992 min+2.81WARG65Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen35 GP · 2028 min+1.68WARG38Colten Ellis16 GP · 911 min+0.43WAR

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