1999-00 Buffalo Sabres Roster and Statistics

Record: 35-32-11-4 (85 points), Finished 3rd in NHL Northeast Division (Schedule and Results)

Coach: Lindy Ruff (35-32-11-4)

Primary Arena: HSBC Arena

Goals For: 213 (20th of 28), Goals Against: 204 (8th of 28)
SRS: 0.01 (17th of 28), SOS: -0.10 (22nd of 28)

Playoffs:
Lost Conference Quarter-Finals (4-1) to Philadelphia Flyers

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	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	26.5	82	35	32	11	4	85	.518	213	204	0.01	-0.10	2.60	2.49	37	351	10.54	54	361	85.04	8	10	2228	9.6	2207	.908		8
League Average	27.7	82	36	32	10	4	86	.525	225	225					53	331	16.15	53	331	83.85	8	8	2294	9.8	2294	.902		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	Birth	Pos	Age	Ht	Wt	S/C	Exp	Birth Date
61	Maxim Afinogenov	su SU	RW	20	6-0	190	L/-	R	September 4, 1979
41	Stu Barnes	ca CA	C	29	5-11	182	R/-	8	December 25, 1970
43	Martin Biron	ca CA	G	22	6-2	186	-/L	2	August 15, 1977
37	Curtis Brown	ca CA	C	23	6-0	200	L/-	5	February 12, 1976
51	Brian Campbell	ca CA	D	20	5-10	192	L/-	R	May 23, 1979
93	Doug Gilmour	ca CA	C	36	5-11	177	L/-	16	June 25, 1963
34	Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre	ca CA	D	22	6-3	225	R/-	1	February 2, 1977
77	Chris Gratton	ca CA	C	24	6-4	226	L/-	6	July 5, 1975
18	Michal Grošek	cs CS	LW	24	6-2	207	R/-	6	June 1, 1975
55	Denis Hamel	ca CA	LW	22	6-1	204	L/-	R	May 10, 1977
39	Dominik Hašek	cs CS	G	35	6-1	166	-/L	9	January 29, 1965
20-29	Jason Holland	ca CA	D	23	6-3	219	R/-	3	April 30, 1976
19	Brian Holzinger	us US	C	27	5-11	186	R/-	5	October 10, 1972
20	Doug Houda	ca CA	D	33	6-2	208	R/-	13	June 3, 1966
21	Mike Hurlbut	us US	D	33	6-2	206	L/-	4	October 7, 1966
45	Dmitri Kalinin	su SU	D	19	6-3	210	L/-	R	July 22, 1980
24	Paul Kruse	ca CA	LW	29	6-1	215	L/-	9	March 15, 1970
74	Jay McKee	ca CA	D	22	6-4	203	L/-	4	September 8, 1977
64	David Moravec	cs CS	RW	26	6-0	180	L/-	R	March 24, 1973
3	James Patrick	ca CA	D	36	6-2	202	R/-	16	June 14, 1963
27	Michael Peca (C)	ca CA	C	25	5-11	181	R/-	6	March 26, 1974
12-28	Domenic Pittis	ca CA	C	25	5-11	190	L/-	2	October 1, 1974
22	Wayne Primeau	ca CA	C	23	6-4	225	L/-	5	June 4, 1976
9	Erik Rasmussen	us US	C	22	6-1	215	L/-	2	March 28, 1977
32	Rob Ray	ca CA	LW	31	6-0	217	L/-	10	June 8, 1968
30	Dwayne Roloson	ca CA	G	30	6-1	170	-/L	3	October 12, 1969
8	Geoff Sanderson	ca CA	LW	27	6-0	190	L/-	9	February 1, 1972
6	Cory Sarich	ca CA	D	21	6-4	207	R/-	1	August 16, 1978
81	Miroslav Šatan	cs CS	RW	25	6-3	191	L/-	4	October 22, 1974
42	Richard Šmehlík	cs CS	D	30	6-4	222	L/-	6	January 23, 1970
16	Chris Taylor	ca CA	C	27	6-2	192	L/-	4	March 6, 1972
29	Vladimir Tsyplakov	su SU	LW	30	6-1	197	L/-	4	April 18, 1969
25	Václav Varaďa	cs CS	RW	23	6-0	208	L/-	4	April 26, 1976
15	Dixon Ward	ca CA	LW	31	6-0	200	R/-	7	September 23, 1968
4	Rhett Warrener	ca CA	D	24	6-1	203	R/-	4	January 27, 1976
5	Jason Woolley	ca CA	D	30	6-0	203	L/-	8	July 27, 1969
44	Alexei Zhitnik	su SU	D	27	5-11	225	L/-	7	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	25	RW	81	33	34	67	16	32	25	5	3	5	26	7	1	265	12.5	1667	20:35	5.9	2.4	8.3
2	Curtis Brown	23	C	74	22	29	51	19	42	17	5	0	4	25	4	0	149	14.8	1345	18:11	4.0	2.2	6.1
3	Stu Barnes	29	C	82	20	25	45	-3	16	10	8	2	2	17	8	0	137	14.6	1426	17:23	2.9	1.4	4.3
4	Michael Peca	25	C	73	20	21	41	6	67	18	2	0	3	13	5	3	144	13.9	1456	19:57	2.4	1.8	4.2
5	Václav Varaďa	23	RW	76	10	27	37	12	62	10	0	0	0	24	3	0	140	7.1	1137	14:58	1.8	1.7	3.5
6	Maxim Afinogenov	20	RW	65	16	18	34	-4	41	14	2	0	2	12	6	0	128	12.5	854	13:09	2.9	0.7	3.7
7	Michal Grošek	24	LW	61	11	23	34	12	35	9	2	0	2	22	1	0	96	11.5	993	16:17	2.0	1.5	3.5
8	Jason Woolley	30	D	74	8	25	33	14	52	6	2	0	2	9	16	0	113	7.1	1321	17:51	2.9	3.9	6.8
9	Geoff Sanderson	27	LW	67	13	13	26	4	22	9	4	0	3	12	1	0	136	9.6	865	12:54	1.7	1.1	2.8
10	Brian Holzinger	27	C	59	7	17	24	4	30	6	0	1	2	15	2	0	81	8.6	863	14:38	0.9	1.1	1.9
11	Dixon Ward	31	LW	71	11	9	20	1	41	8	1	2	2	8	1	0	101	10.9	992	13:58	0.5	1.1	1.6
12	Vladimir Tsyplakov	30	LW	34	6	13	19	17	10	6	0	0	1	11	2	0	46	13.0	465	13:41	1.4	1.2	2.5
13	Jay McKee	22	D	78	5	12	17	5	50	4	1	0	1	11	0	1	84	6.0	1635	20:58	0.6	3.8	4.4
14	Doug Gilmour*	36	C	11	3	14	17	3	12	1	2	0	0	13	1	0	13	23.1	209	18:58	1.5	0.3	1.9
15	Erik Rasmussen	22	C	67	8	6	14	1	43	8	0	0	2	5	1	0	76	10.5	767	11:27	0.2	0.8	1.0
16	James Patrick	36	D	66	5	8	13	8	22	5	0	0	3	8	0	0	40	12.5	1055	15:59	0.8	2.8	3.6
17	Alexei Zhitnik	27	D	74	2	11	13	-6	95	1	1	0	0	4	5	2	139	1.4	1835	24:48	-0.4	3.4	3.0
18	Wayne Primeau	23	C	41	5	7	12	-8	38	3	2	0	1	6	1	0	40	12.5	453	11:03	0.5	0.2	0.7
19	Richard Šmehlík	30	D	64	2	9	11	13	50	2	0	0	0	9	0	0	67	3.0	1349	21:04	-0.1	3.8	3.8
20	Chris Gratton	24	C	14	1	7	8	1	15	1	0	0	0	5	2	0	34	2.9	233	16:40	0.3	0.3	0.6
21	Brian Campbell	20	D	12	1	4	5	-2	4	1	0	0	0	2	2	0	10	10.0	190	15:48	0.4	0.2	0.7
22	Rob Ray	31	LW	69	1	3	4	0	158	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	17	5.9	290	4:13	-0.3	0.3	0.0
23	Cory Sarich	21	D	42	0	4	4	2	35	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	49	0.0	743	17:42	-0.4	1.7	1.3
24	Rhett Warrener	24	D	61	0	3	3	18	89	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	68	0.0	1211	19:51	-1.0	3.9	3.0
25	Chris Taylor	27	C	11	1	1	2	-2	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	15	6.7	120	10:54	0.0	0.0	0.0
26	Denis Hamel	22	LW	3	1	0	1	-1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	33.3	29	9:45	0.1	0.0	0.1
27	Domenic Pittis	25	C	7	1	0	1	1	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	16.7	80	11:27	0.0	0.1	0.1
28	Dominik Hašek*	35	G	35	0	1	1	0	12	0	0	0	0				0		2066	59:02	0.0	0.0	7.2
29	Jason Holland	23	D	9	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	8	0.0	140	15:31	0.0	0.3	0.2
30	Martin Biron	22	G	41	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0				0		2229	54:22	0.0	0.0	6.5
31	Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre	22	D	11	0	0	0	-1	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0.0	167	15:11	-0.2	0.3	0.1
32	Doug Houda	33	D	1	0	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		9	9:10	0.0	0.0	0.0
33	Mike Hurlbut	33	D	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	12	12:25	0.0	0.1	0.1
34	Dmitri Kalinin	19	D	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.0	68	16:53	-0.1	0.1	0.1
35	Paul Kruse	29	LW	11	0	0	0	-2	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.0	69	6:15	-0.2	0.0	-0.2
36	David Moravec	26	RW	1	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.0	15	15:15	0.0	0.0	-0.1
37	Dwayne Roloson	30	G	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0				0		677	48:22	0.0	0.0	1.1
	Team Total			82	213	345	558	128	1163	168	37	8	35	267	70	7	2228	9.6			31.1	42.4	88.3

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	Martin Biron	22	41		19	18	2	90	988	898	.909	2.42	5	2229				95	4.5	2.75	6.5
2	Dominik Hašek*	35	35		15	11	6	76	937	861	.919	2.21	3	2066				85	13.6	2.50	7.2
3	Dwayne Roloson	30	14		1	7	3	32	277	245	.884	2.84	0	677						3.19	1.1
	Team Total				35	36	11	198	2202	2004	.910	2.39	8	4972				94	12.5	2.70	14.8