Vladimir Sobotka#17

C with Buffalo, 2018–19 to 2019–20

No. 17Shoots LHeight 5'11"Weight 191 lbsBorn July 2, 1987Hometown Trebic, CZE
On-Ice Impact, 2019–20 5v5
36.0%
xGF% ON ICE
43.6%
CF% ON ICE

On-ice PDO 1.039 (5v5 on-ice shooting plus save percentage). PDO over one season is noisy, it regresses hard toward 1.000, so read it as recent puck luck rather than a skill.

Recent Form
Last 10
Last 20
Points
0 to 3
2Steady
3 
Individual xG
0.08 to 0.14
0.11Hot
0.09 
On-Ice xGF%
31.6% to 62.6%
34.0%Cold
39.3% 
Game Score
-0.08 to 0.27
0.10Cold
0.16 

Each line is the metric's rolling 10-game value across the last 20 games, so it ends on the Last 10 figure. The dashed line is the player's season average (50% for On-Ice xGF%), with navy shading for time spent above it and gray for below. Gold ticks mark goal games. Descriptive only, small samples swing.

Playoffs

Career With Buffalo

85 games, 2 seasons
6
G
247th all-time
10
A
271st all-time
16
PTS
270th all-time
30
PIM
275th all-time
14:12
TOI/G

All-time is the rank among the 529 skaters with a regular-season game for Buffalo since 1970–71. Ties share a rank.

Season by Season

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These stats don’t share a natural scale, so each line is normalized to its own 0-100% range for shape comparison. Hover a point for its real value.

03520182019SeasonGoals
SeasonAgeGPGAPTS+/-PIMPen +/-/60PPSHGWGSOGS%FO%TOI/GP/60ixGxG/60GAxCF%FF%GF%xG%PDO
2018–1931695813-2026-0.12000717.0%51.9%14:11
0.80
14th pct
5.9
0.36
5th pct
-0.9
41st pct
44.3%
7th pct
44.2%32.7%40.7%0.971
2019–20*3216123+24+0.53000234.3%55.7%14:16
0.79
13th pct
1.5
0.40
7th pct
-0.5
50th pct
43.6%
14th pct
43.1%56.3%36.0%1.039
Total8561016-1830000946.4%14:120.80

* Shortened season. Weigh its totals against a full 82-game year with that in mind.

pct under a P/60, xG/60, GAx and CF% figure is where that season ranks, as a percentile, among every Sabres forward season since 2016–17 with at least 12 games; a season under that floor isn't ranked. xG/60, GAx and CF% come from this site's own xG model and shift-chart reconstruction, not an NHL feed; P/60 is from official NHL totals. Higher is better throughout.

Actual vs Expected

One row per season: the gold dot is the expected total, the navy dot is what actually happened.

xGGoals
024572018–192018–19: 5.9 xG2018–19: 5 Goals (-0.9 vs expected)5 / 5.92019–202019–20: 1.5 xG2019–20: 1 Goals (-0.5 vs expected)1 / 1.5

Shot Map

Every shot attempt across every season shown here, to scale, always attacking right. Pick one season to see that year alone, or leave it on Career for the full picture.

xG range
Shot on goal (size = xG)GoalMissed shot×Blocked shot