1998-99 Buffalo Sabres Roster and Statistics

Record: 37-28-17 (91 points), Finished 4th in NHL Northeast Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Lindy Ruff (37-28-17)

Goals For: 207 (17th of 27), Goals Against: 175 (2nd of 27)
SRS: 0.41 (7th of 27), SOS: 0.02 (7th of 27)

Playoffs:
Lost Stanley Cup Final (4-2) to Dallas Stars
Won Conference Finals (4-1) over Toronto Maple Leafs
Won Conference Semi-Finals (4-2) over Boston Bruins
Won Conference Quarter-Finals (4-0) over Ottawa Senators

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	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	26.9	82	37	28	17	91	.555	207	175	0.41	0.02	2.52	2.13	49	363	13.50	55	399	86.22	6	7	2150	9.6	2461	.929		10
League Average	27.7	82	35	35	12	82	.500	216	216					57	359	15.81	57	359	84.19	8	8	2285	9.4	2285	.906		6

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
36	Matthew Barnaby	ca CA	RW	25	6-0	189	L/-	6	May 4, 1973
41	Stu Barnes	ca CA	C	28	5-11	182	R/-	7	December 25, 1970
43	Martin Biron	ca CA	G	21	6-2	186	-/L	1	August 15, 1977
37	Curtis Brown	ca CA	C	22	6-0	200	L/-	4	February 12, 1976
17	Randy Cunneyworth	ca CA	LW	37	6-0	198	L/-	15	May 10, 1961
34	Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre	ca CA	D	21	6-3	225	R/-	R	February 2, 1977
18	Michal Grošek	cs CS	LW	23	6-2	207	R/-	5	June 1, 1975
39	Dominik Hašek	cs CS	G	34	6-1	166	-/L	8	January 29, 1965
29	Jason Holland	ca CA	D	22	6-3	219	R/-	2	April 30, 1976
19	Brian Holzinger	us US	C	26	5-11	186	R/-	4	October 10, 1972
21	Mike Hurlbut	us US	D	32	6-2	206	L/-	3	October 7, 1966
90	Joé Juneau	ca CA	C	31	6-0	195	L/-	7	January 5, 1968
24	Paul Kruse	ca CA	LW	28	6-1	215	L/-	8	March 15, 1970
74	Jay McKee	ca CA	D	21	6-4	203	L/-	3	September 8, 1977
40	Rumun Ndur	ng NG	D	23	6-2	222	L/-	2	July 7, 1975
3	James Patrick	ca CA	D	35	6-2	202	R/-	15	June 14, 1963
27	Michael Peca (C)	ca CA	C	24	5-11	181	R/-	5	March 26, 1974
83	Domenic Pittis	ca CA	C	24	5-11	190	L/-	1	October 1, 1974
26	Derek Plante	us US	C	28	5-11	181	L/-	5	January 17, 1971
22	Wayne Primeau	ca CA	C	22	6-4	225	L/-	4	June 4, 1976
9	Erik Rasmussen	us US	C	21	6-1	215	L/-	1	March 28, 1977
32	Rob Ray	ca CA	RW	30	6-0	217	L/-	9	June 8, 1968
30	Dwayne Roloson	ca CA	G	29	6-1	170	-/L	2	October 12, 1969
80	Geoff Sanderson	ca CA	LW	26	6-0	190	L/-	8	February 1, 1972
6	Cory Sarich	ca CA	D	20	6-4	207	R/-	R	August 16, 1978
81	Miroslav Šatan	cs CS	LW	24	6-3	191	L/-	3	October 22, 1974
8	Darryl Shannon	ca CA	D	30	6-2	208	L/-	10	June 21, 1968
42	Richard Šmehlík	cs CS	D	29	6-4	222	L/-	5	January 23, 1970
46	Dean Sylvester	us US	RW	26	6-2	210	R/-	R	December 30, 1972
25	Václav Varaďa	cs CS	RW	22	6-0	208	L/-	3	April 26, 1976
15-17	Dixon Ward	ca CA	RW	30	6-0	200	R/-	6	September 23, 1968
4	Rhett Warrener	ca CA	D	23	6-1	203	R/-	3	January 27, 1976
4	Mike Wilson	ca CA	D	23	6-6	229	L/-	3	February 26, 1975
5	Jason Woolley	ca CA	D	29	6-0	203	L/-	7	July 27, 1969
44	Alexei Zhitnik	su SU	D	26	5-11	225	L/-	6	October 10, 1972

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	Miroslav Šatan	24	LW	81	40	26	66	24	44	24	13	3	6	18	8	0	208	19.2	1686	20:49	6.5	2.6	9.1
2	Michael Peca	24	C	82	27	29	56	7	81	17	10	0	8	19	9	1	199	13.6	1683	20:31	4.1	2.0	6.1
3	Michal Grošek	23	LW	76	20	30	50	21	102	16	4	0	3	22	8	0	140	14.3	1309	17:14	3.8	2.1	5.9
4	Curtis Brown	22	C	78	16	31	47	23	56	10	5	1	3	25	5	1	128	12.5	1365	17:30	2.9	2.3	5.2
5	Dixon Ward	30	RW	78	20	24	44	10	44	17	2	1	4	18	6	0	101	19.8	1231	15:47	3.3	1.6	5.0
6	Jason Woolley	29	D	80	10	33	43	16	62	6	4	0	2	17	16	0	154	6.5	1497	18:43	4.0	4.2	8.2
7	Brian Holzinger	26	C	81	17	17	34	2	45	12	5	0	2	11	5	1	143	11.9	1337	16:31	1.7	1.4	3.1
8	Alexei Zhitnik	26	D	81	7	26	33	-6	96	3	3	1	2	13	13	0	185	3.8	2077	25:39	2.0	3.6	5.7
9	Václav Varaďa	22	RW	72	7	24	31	11	61	6	1	0	1	21	3	0	123	5.7	1044	14:30	1.2	1.5	2.6
10	Geoff Sanderson	26	LW	75	12	18	30	8	22	11	1	0	1	13	5	0	155	7.7	969	12:55	1.8	1.3	3.1
11	Matthew Barnaby	25	RW	44	4	14	18	-2	143	4	0	0	3	9	5	0	52	7.7	613	13:56	0.6	0.5	1.2
12	Derek Plante	28	C	41	4	11	15	3	12	4	0	0	0	8	2	1	66	6.1	636	15:31	0.3	0.8	1.0
13	Darryl Shannon	30	D	71	3	12	15	28	52	2	1	0	0	10	2	0	80	3.8	1412	19:54	0.4	5.0	5.4
14	Richard Šmehlík	29	D	72	3	11	14	-9	44	3	0	0	0	10	1	0	61	4.9	1572	21:50	0.2	2.4	2.6
15	Wayne Primeau	22	C	67	5	8	13	-6	38	5	0	0	0	7	1	0	55	9.1	691	10:19	0.0	0.5	0.5
16	Erik Rasmussen	21	C	42	3	7	10	6	37	3	0	0	0	7	0	0	40	7.5	519	12:22	0.0	0.8	0.7
17	James Patrick	35	D	45	1	7	8	12	16	1	0	0	0	7	0	0	31	3.2	664	14:45	0.3	2.2	2.5
18	Jay McKee	21	D	72	0	6	6	20	75	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	57	0.0	1474	20:28	-0.9	4.5	3.6
19	Randy Cunneyworth	37	LW	14	2	2	4	1	0	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	12	16.7	126	8:58	0.3	0.2	0.5
20	Stu Barnes	28	C	17	0	4	4	1	10	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	25	0.0	312	18:20	-0.4	0.4	-0.1
21	Rob Ray	30	RW	76	0	4	4	-2	261	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	23	0.0	394	5:11	-0.6	0.3	-0.3
22	Paul Kruse	28	LW	43	3	0	3	0	114	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	33	9.1	275	6:24	-0.1	0.3	0.2
23	Mike Wilson	23	D	30	1	2	3	10	47	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	40	2.5	500	16:40	-0.1	1.8	1.7
24	Joé Juneau	31	C	9	1	1	2	-1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	8	12.5	155	17:11	-0.1	0.1	0.0
25	Rhett Warrener	23	D	13	1	0	1	3	20	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	9.1	237	18:13	0.0	0.7	0.7
26	Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre	21	D	16	0	1	1	0	17	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	11	0.0	218	13:36	-0.1	0.4	0.3
27	Martin Biron	21	G	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		281	46:47	0.0	0.0	0.8
28	Dominik Hašek*	34	G	64	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0				0		3817	59:38	0.0	0.0	16.8
29	Jason Holland	22	D	3	0	0	0	-1	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	33	10:58	0.0	0.0	0.0
30	Mike Hurlbut	32	D	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	18	17:53	0.0	0.2	0.2
31	Rumun Ndur	23	D	8	0	0	0	1	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	88	10:58	-0.1	0.3	0.2
32	Domenic Pittis	24	C	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	26	8:35	-0.1	0.0	0.0
33	Dwayne Roloson	29	G	18	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0				0		911	50:36	0.0	0.0	2.7
34	Cory Sarich	20	D	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	53	13:11	-0.1	0.3	0.3
35	Dean Sylvester	26	RW	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	15	14:31	0.0	0.0	-0.1
	Team Total			82	207	348	555	184	1545	152	49	6	37	252	91	5	2150	9.6			30.5	44.2	95.1

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	Dominik Hašek*	34	64		30	18	14	119	1877	1758	.937	1.87	9	3817				69	54.1	2.20	16.8
2	Dwayne Roloson	29	18		6	8	2	42	460	418	.909	2.77	1	911				99	0.4	3.29	2.7
3	Martin Biron	21	6		1	2	1	10	120	110	.917	2.14	0	281						2.57	0.8
	Team Total				37	28	17	171	2457	2286	.930	2.05	10	5009				75	55.6	2.42	20.4