2006-07 Buffalo Sabres Roster and Statistics

Record: 53-22-7 (113 points), Finished 1st in NHL Northeast Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Lindy Ruff (53-22-7)

Captain: Daniel Brière , Chris Drury

Primary Arena: HSBC Arena

Goals For: 308 (1st of 30), Goals Against: 242 (13th of 30)
SRS: 0.64 (6th of 30), SOS: -0.16 (29th of 30)

Playoffs:
Lost Conference Finals (4-1) to Ottawa Senators
Won Conference Semi-Finals (4-2) over New York Rangers
Won Conference Quarter-Finals (4-1) over New York Islanders

Preseason Odds: Stanley Cup +1200

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Recent Game Results

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Team Statistics

Team Statistics Table
Team	AvAge	GP	W	L	OL	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	27.2	82	53	22	7	113	.689	298	238	0.64	-0.16	3.63	2.90	71	407	17.44	72	386	81.35	8	13	2417	12.3	2541	.906		2
League Average	28.3	82	41	32	9	91	.557	236	236					70	398	17.58	70	398	82.42	9	9	2426	9.7	2427	.903		5

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	Flag	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date	Summary
61	Maxim Afinogenov	su	RW	27	6-0	190	L/-	6	September 4, 1979	23 G, 38 A, 61 P
43	Martin Biron	ca	G	29	6-2	186	-/L	8	August 15, 1977	12-4-1, 3.04 GAA
48	Daniel Brière (C)	ca	C	29	5-9	174	R/-	8	October 6, 1977	32 G, 63 A, 95 P
51	Brian Campbell	ca	D	27	5-10	192	L/-	6	May 23, 1979	6 G, 42 A, 48 P
33	Mike Card	ca	D	20	6-1	201	R/-	R	February 18, 1986	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
35	Ty Conklin	us	G	30	6-1	185	-/L	3	March 30, 1976	1-2-0, 3.43 GAA
19	Tim Connolly	us	C	25	6-1	190	R/-	5	May 7, 1981	1 G, 0 A, 1 P
23	Chris Drury (C)	us	C	30	5-10	191	R/-	7	August 20, 1976	37 G, 32 A, 69 P
3	Michael Funk	ca	D	20	6-4	199	L/-	R	August 15, 1986	0 G, 2 A, 2 P
28	Paul Gaustad	us	C	24	6-5	227	L/-	2	February 3, 1982	9 G, 13 A, 22 P
55	Jochen Hecht	de	C	29	6-1	198	L/-	7	June 21, 1977	19 G, 37 A, 56 P
36	Patrick Kaleta	us	RW	20	6-1	198	R/-	R	June 8, 1986	0 G, 2 A, 2 P
45	Dmitri Kalinin	su	D	26	6-3	210	L/-	6	July 22, 1980	7 G, 22 A, 29 P
12	Aleš Kotalík	cs	RW	28	6-1	225	R/-	4	December 23, 1978	16 G, 22 A, 38 P
5	Toni Lydman	fi	D	29	6-1	208	L/-	5	September 25, 1977	2 G, 17 A, 19 P
41	Clarke MacArthur	ca	LW	21	6-0	192	L/-	R	April 6, 1985	3 G, 4 A, 7 P
22	Adam Mair	ca	C	27	6-1	208	R/-	6	February 15, 1979	2 G, 9 A, 11 P
25	Mark Mancari	ca	RW	21	6-3	225	R/-	R	July 11, 1985	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
30	Ryan Miller	us	G	26	6-2	168	-/L	3	July 17, 1980	40-16-6, 2.73 GAA
13	Jiří Novotný	cs	C	23	6-4	209	R/-	1	August 12, 1983	6 G, 7 A, 13 P
27	Teppo Numminen	fi	D	38	6-2	198	R/-	17	July 3, 1968	2 G, 27 A, 29 P
38	Nathan Paetsch	ca	D	23	6-0	195	L/-	1	March 30, 1983	2 G, 22 A, 24 P
20	Daniel Paille	ca	LW	22	6-1	200	L/-	1	April 15, 1984	3 G, 8 A, 11 P
76	Andrew Peters	ca	LW	26	6-4	240	L/-	2	May 5, 1980	1 G, 1 A, 2 P
29	Jason Pominville	ca	RW	24	5-11	180	R/-	2	November 30, 1982	34 G, 34 A, 68 P
9	Derek Roy	ca	C	23	5-9	184	L/-	2	May 4, 1983	21 G, 42 A, 63 P
37	Michael Ryan	us	C	26	6-1	188	L/-	R	May 16, 1980	3 G, 2 A, 5 P
44	Andrej Sekera	cs	D	20	6-0	200	L/-	R	June 8, 1986	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
6	Jaroslav Špaček	cs	D	32	6-0	210	L/-	7	February 11, 1974	5 G, 16 A, 21 P
21	Drew Stafford	us	RW	21	6-2	215	R/-	R	October 30, 1985	13 G, 14 A, 27 P
10	Henrik Tallinder	se	D	28	6-4	215	L/-	4	January 10, 1979	4 G, 10 A, 14 P
26	Thomas Vanek	at	LW	23	6-2	214	R/-	1	January 19, 1984	43 G, 41 A, 84 P
15	Dainius Zubrus	su	RW	28	6-5	225	L/-	9	June 16, 1978	4 G, 4 A, 8 P

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	Daniel Brière	29	C	81	32	63	95	17	89	23	9	0	6	42	21	0	234	13.7	1564	19:19	8.4	1.6	10.0
2	Thomas Vanek	23	LW	82	43	41	84	47	40	28	15	0	5	34	7	0	237	18.1	1376	16:47	8.9	2.7	11.6
3	Chris Drury	30	C	77	37	32	69	1	30	17	17	3	9	22	10	0	199	18.6	1446	18:47	6.6	0.9	7.5
4	Jason Pominville	24	RW	82	34	34	68	25	30	30	2	2	5	21	11	2	212	16.0	1428	17:25	6.2	1.8	8.1
5	Derek Roy	23	C	75	21	42	63	37	60	14	6	1	3	33	8	1	130	16.2	1385	18:28	4.5	2.3	6.8
6	Maxim Afinogenov	27	RW	56	23	38	61	19	66	16	7	0	3	25	13	0	151	15.2	955	17:03	5.8	1.3	7.1
7	Jochen Hecht	29	C	76	19	37	56	19	39	16	3	0	1	30	6	1	197	9.6	1432	18:51	3.5	1.6	5.1
8	Brian Campbell	27	D	82	6	42	48	28	35	5	1	0	1	33	8	1	92	6.5	1794	21:53	3.4	4.2	7.6
9	Aleš Kotalík	28	RW	66	16	22	38	-5	46	13	3	0	4	14	8	0	162	9.9	958	14:31	2.7	0.4	3.1
10	Dmitri Kalinin	26	D	82	7	22	29	19	36	6	0	1	0	19	3	0	86	8.1	1600	19:31	1.8	3.2	5.0
11	Teppo Numminen	38	D	79	2	27	29	17	32	2	0	0	0	14	12	1	69	2.9	1643	20:48	1.2	3.1	4.4
12	Drew Stafford	21	RW	41	13	14	27	5	33	10	3	0	3	13	1	0	67	19.4	539	13:08	2.5	0.5	3.0
13	Nathan Paetsch	23	D	63	2	22	24	10	50	2	0	0	0	13	9	0	62	3.2	961	15:15	1.5	1.8	3.4
14	Paul Gaustad	24	C	54	9	13	22	11	74	6	3	0	0	7	5	1	75	12.0	719	13:19	1.1	0.9	1.9
15	Jaroslav Špaček	32	D	65	5	16	21	20	62	4	1	0	2	8	8	0	78	6.4	1245	19:09	1.2	2.9	4.1
16	Toni Lydman	29	D	67	2	17	19	10	55	2	0	0	1	14	2	1	44	4.5	1380	20:36	0.5	2.3	2.8
17	Henrik Tallinder	28	D	47	4	10	14	19	34	4	0	0	0	10	0	0	34	11.8	993	21:07	0.7	2.6	3.3
18	Jiří Novotný	23	C	50	6	7	13	-2	26	6	0	0	0	7	0	0	60	10.0	616	12:19	0.1	0.3	0.4
19	Daniel Paille	22	LW	29	3	8	11	5	18	3	0	0	0	7	0	1	45	6.7	371	12:47	0.3	0.4	0.8
20	Adam Mair	27	C	82	2	9	11	-1	128	2	0	0	0	9	0	0	73	2.7	619	7:33	-0.5	0.3	-0.2
21	Dainius Zubrus	28	RW	19	4	4	8	-3	12	3	1	0	0	3	1	0	31	12.9	349	18:22	0.2	0.1	0.3
22	Clarke MacArthur	21	LW	19	3	4	7	4	4	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	16	18.8	169	8:54	0.5	0.3	0.8
23	Michael Ryan	26	C	19	3	2	5	-8	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	34	8.8	260	13:40	0.1	-0.2	-0.1
24	Andrew Peters	26	LW	58	1	1	2	-1	125	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	19	5.3	219	3:46	-0.3	0.1	-0.2
25	Michael Funk	20	D	5	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0.0	17	3:26	0.2	0.2	0.4
26	Patrick Kaleta	20	RW	7	0	2	2	3	21	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	0.0	48	6:49	0.1	0.1	0.2
27	Ryan Miller	26	G	63	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0				0		3692	58:36	0.0	0.0	12.7
28	Tim Connolly	25	C	2	1	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	50.0	26	13:07	0.1	0.1	0.2
29	Mark Mancari	21	RW	3	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.0	19	6:12	0.0	0.0	0.0
30	Martin Biron	29	G	19	0	0	0	0	25	0	0	0	0				0		1066	56:08	0.0	0.0	2.9
31	Mike Card	20	D	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		18	4:34	0.0	0.0	0.0
32	Ty Conklin	30	G	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0				0		227	45:28	0.0	0.0	0.6
33	Andrej Sekera	20	D	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		15	7:31	0.0	0.1	0.1
	Team Total			82	298	534	832	299	1182	219	71	8	43	390	133	9	2417	12.3			61.5	35.8	113.4

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	Ryan Miller	26	63		40	16	6	168	1886	1718	.911	2.73	2	3692				94	10.7	2.96	12.7
2	Martin Biron	29	19		12	4	1	54	533	479	.899	3.04	0	1066				107	-3.5	3.32	2.9
3	Ty Conklin	30	5		1	2	0	13	120	107	.892	3.43	0	227						3.69	0.6
	Team Total				53	22	7	235	2539	2304	.907	2.83	2	4985				98	5.6	3.07	16.1