1971-72 Buffalo Sabres Roster and Statistics

Record: 16-43-19 (51 points), Finished 6th in NHL East Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Punch Imlach (8-23-10), Floyd Smith (0-1-0), Joe Crozier (8-19-9)

Primary Arena: Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Goals For: 203 (12th of 14), Goals Against: 289 (12th of 14)
SRS: -1.02 (12th of 14), SOS: 0.08 (3rd of 14)

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Recent Game Results

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78. Apr 2, BUF (16-43) beat PHI, 3-2

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	78	16	43	19	51	.327	203	289	-1.02	0.08	2.60	3.71	57	308	18.51	56	281	80.07	1	7	2121	9.6	2797	.897		2
League Average	78	32	32	13	78	.500	239	239					52	269	19.38	52	269	80.62	7	7	2417	9.9	2417	.901		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
16	Ron Anderson	ca	RW	26	6-0	170	R/-	4	July 29, 1945	0 G, 4 A, 4 P
19	Steve Atkinson	ca	RW	23	5-11	170	R/-	2	October 16, 1948	14 G, 10 A, 24 P
21	Terry Ball	ca	D	27	5-9	160	R/-	3	November 29, 1944	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
5	Doug Barrie	ca	D	25	5-9	175	R/-	2	October 2, 1946	2 G, 5 A, 7 P
12	Mike Byers	ca	RW	25	5-10	185	R/-	3	September 11, 1946	9 G, 7 A, 16 P
1	Roger Crozier	ca	G	29	5-8	165	-/R	8	March 16, 1942	13-34-14, 3.52 GAA
8-16	Butch Deadmarsh	ca	LW	21	5-11	186	L/-	1	April 5, 1950	1 G, 1 A, 2 P
30	Dave Dryden	ca	G	30	6-1	186	-/L	5	September 5, 1941	3-9-5, 3.98 GAA
8	Dick Duff	ca	LW	35	5-9	166	L/-	17	February 18, 1936	2 G, 2 A, 4 P
24	Chris Evans	ca	D	25	5-9	180	L/-	1	September 14, 1946	6 G, 18 A, 24 P
21	John Gould	ca	LW	22	5-11	197	L/-	R	April 11, 1949	1 G, 0 A, 1 P
10	Phil Goyette	ca	C	38	5-11	170	L/-	15	October 31, 1933	3 G, 21 A, 24 P
6	Al Hamilton	ca	D	25	6-1	195	R/-	5	August 20, 1946	4 G, 30 A, 34 P
5	Larry Hillman	ca	D	34	6-0	185	L/-	17	February 5, 1937	1 G, 11 A, 12 P
21	Larry Keenan	ca	LW	31	5-11	175	L/-	5	October 1, 1940	2 G, 0 A, 2 P
9	Danny Lawson	ca	RW	24	5-11	180	R/-	4	October 30, 1947	10 G, 6 A, 16 P
8	Jim Lorentz	ca	C	24	6-0	190	L/-	3	May 1, 1947	10 G, 14 A, 24 P
14-20	Don Luce	ca	C	23	6-2	185	L/-	2	October 2, 1948	11 G, 8 A, 19 P
7-8	Rick Martin	ca	LW	20	5-11	179	L/-	R	July 26, 1951	44 G, 30 A, 74 P
22	Ray McKay	ca	D	25	6-4	183	L/-	3	August 22, 1946	0 G, 3 A, 3 P
15	Gerry Meehan (C)	ca	C	25	6-2	200	L/-	2	September 3, 1946	19 G, 27 A, 46 P
21	Larry Mickey	ca	RW	28	5-11	175	R/-	7	October 21, 1943	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
18	Kevin O'Shea	ca	RW	24	6-2	205	R/-	1	May 28, 1947	6 G, 9 A, 15 P
11	Gilbert Perreault	ca	C	21	6-1	180	L/-	1	November 13, 1950	26 G, 48 A, 74 P
4	Tracy Pratt	us	D	28	6-2	195	L/-	4	March 8, 1943	0 G, 10 A, 10 P
10-25	Craig Ramsay	ca	LW	20	5-10	175	L/-	R	March 17, 1951	6 G, 10 A, 16 P
7-14-23	René Robert	ca	RW	23	5-10	184	R/-	1	December 31, 1948	6 G, 3 A, 9 P
3	Mike Robitaille	ca	D	23	5-11	195	R/-	2	February 12, 1948	2 G, 10 A, 12 P
23	Eddie Shack	ca	LW	34	6-1	200	L/-	13	February 11, 1937	11 G, 14 A, 25 P
17	Floyd Smith	ca	RW	36	5-10	180	R/-	12	May 16, 1935	0 G, 1 A, 1 P
3	Paul Terbenche	ca	D	26	5-10	170	L/-	2	September 16, 1945	0 G, 0 A, 0 P
2	Jim Watson	ca	D	28	6-2	186	L/-	7	June 28, 1943	2 G, 6 A, 8 P
26	Randy Wyrozub	ca	C	21	5-11	180	L/-	1	April 8, 1950	3 G, 4 A, 7 P
14-22	Rod Zaine	ca	C	25	5-10	180	L/-	1	May 18, 1946	2 G, 1 A, 3 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	Rick Martin	20	LW	73	44	30	74	-39	36	25	19	0	5	17	13	0	266	16.5			7.7	0.1	7.9
2	Gilbert Perreault*	21	C	76	26	48	74	-41	24	15	11	0	1	23	25	0	218	11.9			6.0	0.1	6.1
3	Gerry Meehan	25	C	77	19	27	46	-28	12	15	4	0	2	22	5	0	164	11.6			2.7	0.6	3.3
4	Al Hamilton	25	D	76	4	30	34	-12	105	3	1	0	1	25	5	0	91	4.4			1.9	3.9	5.8
5	Eddie Shack	34	LW	55	11	14	25	-11	34	7	4	0	0	6	8	0	92	12.0			1.0	0.7	1.7
6	Steve Atkinson	23	RW	67	14	10	24	-23	26	11	3	0	0	8	2	0	122	11.5			0.7	0.6	1.2
7	Jim Lorentz	24	C	35	10	14	24	-12	12	8	2	0	1	11	3	0	85	11.8			1.6	0.3	1.9
8	Chris Evans	25	D	61	6	18	24	-20	98	4	2	0	0	13	5	0	99	6.1			1.5	2.5	3.9
9	Phil Goyette	38	C	37	3	21	24	-9	14	0	3	0	0	9	12	0	33	9.1			0.9	0.4	1.3
10	Don Luce	23	C	78	11	8	19	-18	38	11	0	0	1	8	0	0	126	8.7			-0.5	0.9	0.4
11	Danny Lawson	24	RW	78	10	6	16	-22	15	9	0	1	0	6	0	0	176	5.7			-0.9	0.8	-0.1
12	Mike Byers	25	RW	46	9	7	16	-20	12	6	3	0	1	6	1	0	69	13.0			0.3	0.2	0.6
13	Craig Ramsay	20	LW	57	6	10	16	5	0	6	0	0	2	7	3	0	43	14.0			-0.4	1.3	0.9
14	Kevin O'Shea	24	RW	52	6	9	15	-19	44	6	0	0	0	9	0	0	56	10.7			-0.3	0.4	0.1
15	Mike Robitaille	23	D	31	2	10	12	-13	22	1	1	0	0	5	5	0	62	3.2			0.6	1.1	1.7
16	Larry Hillman	34	D	43	1	11	12	-21	58	1	0	0	0	5	5	1	78	1.3			0.3	1.3	1.5
17	Tracy Pratt	28	D	27	0	10	10	-1	52	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	31	0.0			0.3	1.6	2.0
18	René Robert	23	RW	12	6	3	9	-5	2	3	3	0	0	1	2	0	42	14.3			0.9	0.1	0.9
19	Jim Watson	28	D	66	2	6	8	-33	101	1	1	0	0	6	0	0	78	2.6			-0.5	1.9	1.4
20	Randy Wyrozub	21	C	34	3	4	7	-1	0	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	36	8.3			-0.5	0.6	0.1
21	Doug Barrie	25	D	27	2	5	7	-21	45	2	0	0	1	5	0	0	24	8.3			0.2	0.3	0.5
22	Dick Duff*	35	LW	8	2	2	4	-2	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	5	40.0			0.2	0.1	0.3
23	Ron Anderson	26	RW	37	0	4	4	-10	19	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	35	0.0			-1.2	0.4	-0.8
24	Rod Zaine	25	C	24	2	1	3	-14	4	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	23	8.7			-0.6	0.0	-0.5
25	Ray McKay	25	D	39	0	3	3	-12	18	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	18	0.0			-0.6	1.6	1.1
26	Larry Keenan	31	LW	14	2	0	2	-3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	13.3			-0.2	0.2	0.0
27	Butch Deadmarsh	21	LW	12	1	1	2	-10	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	10	10.0			-0.2	-0.1	-0.3
28	John Gould	22	LW	2	1	0	1	-1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	33.3			0.1	0.0	0.1
29	Terry Ball	27	D	10	0	1	1	-7	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	8	0.0			-0.1	0.2	0.0
30	Larry Mickey	28	RW	4	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	0.0			-0.1	0.0	0.0
31	Floyd Smith	36	RW	6	0	1	1	-3	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.0			-0.2	0.0	-0.1
32	Roger Crozier	29	G	63	0	0	0	0	10				0	0			0		3649	57:55	0.0	0.0	7.1
33	Dave Dryden	30	G	20	0	0	0	0	0				0	0			0		1025	51:16	0.0	0.0	1.3
34	Paul Terbenche	26	D	9	0	0	0	-13	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0			-0.2	-0.3	-0.5
	Team Total			78	203	315	518	-440	817	145	57	1	16	218	96	1	2121	9.6			20.4	21.9	50.7

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	Roger Crozier	29	63		13	34	14	214	2197	1983	.903	3.52	2	3649				100	0.0	3.54	7.1
2	Dave Dryden	30	20		3	9	5	68	594	526	.886	3.98	0	1025				118	-10.1	3.98	1.3
	Team Total				16	43	19	282	2791	2509	.899	3.62	2	4674				104	-10.2	3.63	8.4