1985-86 Buffalo Sabres Roster and Statistics

Record: 37-37-6 (80 points), Finished 5th in NHL Adams Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Jim Schoenfeld (19-19-5), Scotty Bowman (18-18-1)

Primary Arena: Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Goals For: 296 (16th of 21), Goals Against: 291 (8th of 21)
SRS: 0.19 (10th of 21), SOS: 0.13 (2nd of 21)

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +800

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	GP	W	L	T	PTS	PTS%	GF	GA	SRS	SOS	GF/G	GA/G	PP	PPO	PP%	PPA	PPOA	PK%	SH	SHA	S	S%	SA	SV%	PDO	SO
Buffalo Sabres	80	37	37	6	80	.500	296	291	0.19	0.13	3.70	3.64	72	351	20.51	66	342	80.70	12	14	2398	12.3	2391	.878		4
League Average	80	36	36	8	80	.500	317	317					82	370	22.10	82	370	77.90	11	11	2484	12.8	2484	.872		2

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5)

Team Analytics (at 5-on-5) Table
Team	S%	SV%	PDO	CF	CA	CF%	xGF	xGA	aGF	aGA	axDiff	SCF	SCA	SCF%	HDF	HDA	HDF%	HDGF	HDC%	HDGA	HDCO%
Buffalo Sabres
League Average

Roster

Age is on February 1 of given season

Roster Table
No.	Player	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
14	Mikael Andersson	se SE	LW	19	5-11	181	L/-	R	May 10, 1966
25	Dave Andreychuk	ca CA	RW	22	6-4	220	R/-	3	September 29, 1963
30	Tom Barrasso	us US	G	20	6-3	210	-/R	2	March 31, 1965
1	Jacques Cloutier	ca CA	G	26	5-7	168	-/L	3	January 3, 1960
34	Adam Creighton	ca CA	C	20	6-5	220	L/-	2	June 2, 1965
18	Paul Cyr	ca CA	LW	22	5-10	180	L/-	3	October 31, 1963
29	Mal Davis	ca CA	LW	29	5-11	180	L/-	5	October 10, 1956
21	Richie Dunn	us US	D	28	6-0	200	L/-	8	May 12, 1957
4	Steve Dykstra	ca CA	D	23	6-2	190	L/-	R	December 1, 1962
28	Brian Engblom	ca CA	D	31	6-2	200	L/-	8	January 27, 1955
31	David Fenyves	ca CA	D	25	6-0	192	L/-	3	April 29, 1960
17	Mike Foligno	ca CA	RW	27	6-2	195	R/-	6	January 29, 1959
12	Jody Gage	ca CA	RW	26	6-0	190	R/-	3	November 29, 1959
28	Paul Gardner	ca CA	C	29	6-0	195	L/-	9	March 5, 1956
3	Richard Hajdu	ca CA	RW	20	6-1	185	L/-	R	May 10, 1965
24	Bill Hajt	ca CA	D	34	6-3	215	L/-	12	November 18, 1951
19	Bob Halkidis	ca CA	D	19	5-11	205	L/-	R	March 5, 1966
9	Gilles Hamel	ca CA	LW	25	6-3	183	L/-	5	March 18, 1960
33	Jim Hofford	ca CA	D	21	6-0	190	R/-	R	October 4, 1964
6	Phil Housley	us US	D	21	5-10	185	L/-	3	March 9, 1964
26	Pat Hughes	ca CA	RW	30	6-1	180	R/-	8	March 25, 1955
32	Normand Lacombe	ca CA	RW	21	6-0	205	R/-	1	October 18, 1964
15	Chris Langevin	ca CA	LW	26	6-0	190	L/-	1	November 28, 1959
20	Don Lever	ca CA	LW	33	5-11	185	L/-	13	November 14, 1952
12	Sean McKenna	ca CA	RW	23	6-0	190	R/-	4	March 7, 1962
23	Gates Orlando	ca CA	C	23	5-8	180	R/-	1	November 13, 1962
11	Gilbert Perreault (C)	ca CA	C	35	6-1	180	L/-	15	November 13, 1950
27	Larry Playfair	ca CA	D	27	6-4	205	L/-	7	June 23, 1958
35	Daren Puppa	ca CA	G	20	6-4	205	-/R	R	March 23, 1965
5	Mike Ramsey	us US	D	25	6-3	195	L/-	6	December 3, 1960
31	Joe Reekie	ca CA	D	20	6-3	220	L/-	R	February 22, 1965
22	Lindy Ruff	ca CA	LW	25	6-2	201	L/-	6	February 17, 1960
26	Phil Russell	ca CA	D	33	6-2	205	L/-	13	July 21, 1952
16	Ric Seiling	ca CA	RW/C	28	6-1	180	R/-	8	December 15, 1957
15	Doug Smith	ca CA	C	22	5-11	186	R/-	4	May 17, 1963
7	John Tucker	ca CA	C	21	6-0	200	R/-	2	September 29, 1964
3	Hannu Virta	fi FI	D	22	5-11	183	L/-	4	March 22, 1963

Scoring Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Scoring Regular Season Table
					Scoring					Goals				Assists					Ice Time		Point Shares
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	EV	PP	SH	GW	EV	PP	SH	S	S%	TOI	ATOI	OPS	DPS	PS
1	Dave Andreychuk*	22	RW	80	36	51	87	3	61	24	12	0	3	33	18	0	226	15.9			5.5	1.2	6.7
2	Mike Foligno	27	RW	79	41	39	80	27	168	33	7	1	4	26	11	2	222	18.5			5.4	1.8	7.2
3	John Tucker	21	C	75	31	34	65	1	39	23	8	0	4	19	15	0	146	21.2			3.8	1.1	4.9
4	Phil Housley*	21	D	79	15	47	62	-10	54	8	7	0	2	25	22	0	180	8.3			3.8	3.9	7.7
5	Gilbert Perreault*	35	C	72	21	39	60	-10	28	15	5	1	3	29	10	0	164	12.8			2.9	0.8	3.6
6	Paul Cyr	22	LW	71	20	31	51	3	120	15	4	1	2	18	13	0	151	13.2			2.2	1.1	3.3
7	Gilles Hamel	25	LW	77	19	25	44	-26	61	12	4	3	3	17	8	0	158	12.0			1.4	0.5	1.9
8	Lindy Ruff	25	LW	54	20	12	32	8	158	14	5	1	4	9	3	0	131	15.3			1.5	1.0	2.5
9	Mike Ramsey	25	D	76	7	21	28	4	117	6	1	0	1	16	5	0	154	4.5			0.9	4.5	5.4
10	Hannu Virta	22	D	47	5	23	28	2	16	4	1	0	0	13	10	0	81	6.2			1.4	2.7	4.1
11	Gates Orlando	23	C	60	13	12	25	-6	29	10	1	2	1	11	1	0	70	18.6			0.3	0.7	1.0
12	Ric Seiling	28	RW	69	12	13	25	-5	74	12	0	0	1	8	2	3	85	14.1			-0.1	0.9	0.8
13	Steve Dykstra	23	D	64	4	21	25	-1	108	2	1	1	0	17	4	0	70	5.7			0.8	3.5	4.3
14	Doug Smith	22	C	30	10	11	21	2	73	6	3	1	3	7	3	1	72	13.9			1.0	0.5	1.5
15	Sean McKenna	23	RW	45	6	12	18	-9	28	5	1	0	2	10	2	0	83	7.2			-0.1	0.4	0.3
16	Bill Hajt	34	D	58	1	16	17	17	25	1	0	0	0	13	1	2	44	2.3			0.1	4.1	4.2
17	Normand Lacombe	21	RW	25	6	7	13	7	13	3	3	0	2	7	0	0	38	15.8			0.4	0.5	0.9
18	Pat Hughes	30	RW	50	4	9	13	-5	25	4	0	0	0	8	0	1	51	7.8			-0.8	0.6	-0.2
19	Mikael Andersson	19	LW	32	1	9	10	-1	4	1	0	0	0	8	1	0	13	7.7			-0.5	0.4	0.0
20	Bob Halkidis	19	D	37	1	9	10	-2	115	1	0	0	0	9	0	0	19	5.3			0.0	2.0	2.0
21	Richie Dunn	28	D	29	4	5	9	-5	25	0	4	0	0	2	3	0	55	7.3			0.3	1.4	1.7
22	Don Lever	33	LW	29	7	1	8	-5	6	6	0	1	1	1	0	0	31	22.6			-0.1	0.3	0.2
23	David Fenyves	25	D	47	0	7	7	12	37	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	31	0.0			-0.4	3.3	2.8
24	Jody Gage	26	RW	7	3	2	5	-3	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	18	16.7			0.3	0.0	0.3
25	Phil Russell	33	D	12	2	3	5	-8	12	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	15	13.3			0.3	0.3	0.5
26	Brian Engblom	31	D	30	1	4	5	2	16	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	24	4.2			-0.2	1.8	1.6
27	Tom Barrasso*	20	G	60	0	4	4	0	28				0	4			0		3554	59:14	0.0	0.0	10.0
28	Chris Langevin	26	LW	16	2	1	3	3	20	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	10	20.0			-0.3	0.3	0.0
29	Larry Playfair	27	D	47	1	2	3	-8	100	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	34	2.9			-0.7	2.2	1.6
30	Mal Davis	29	LW	7	2	0	2	-1	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	40.0			0.0	0.1	0.1
31	Adam Creighton	20	C	19	1	1	2	-2	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	9	11.1			-0.5	0.2	-0.3
32	Jacques Cloutier	26	G	15	0	2	2	0	2				0	2			0		867	57:49	0.0	0.0	2.6
33	Paul Gardner	29	C	2	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.0			-0.1	0.0	-0.1
34	Richard Hajdu	20	RW	3	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0			-0.1	0.1	0.0
35	Jim Hofford	21	D	5	0	0	0	-1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0			-0.1	0.2	0.1
36	Daren Puppa	20	G	7	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		399	57:04	0.0	0.0	1.1
37	Joe Reekie	20	D	3	0	0	0	-2	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0			-0.1	0.1	0.0
	Team Total			80	296	473	769	-21	1591	212	72	12	37	331	133	9	2400	12.3			28.2	42.6	84.6

Goalies Regular Season

Players on this team's active roster in bold

Goalies Regular Season Table
			Goalie Stats
Rk	Player	Age	GP	GS	W	L	T/O	GA	SA	SV	SV%	GAA	SO	MIN	QS	QS%	RBS	GA%-	GSAA	adjGAA	GPS
1	Tom Barrasso*	20	60		29	24	5	214	1773	1559	.879	3.61	2	3554				96	9.1	2.80	10.0
2	Jacques Cloutier	26	15		5	9	1	48	425	377	.887	3.32	1	867				90	5.5	2.63	2.6
3	Daren Puppa	20	7		3	4	0	21	184	163	.886	3.15	1	399						2.40	1.1
	Team Total				37	37	6	283	2382	2099	.881	3.52	4	4820				94	16.8	2.74	13.8