Brett Murray#81
LW with Buffalo, 2020–21 to 2021–22, 2023–24 to 2024–25
On-ice PDO 0.917 (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.
See the full teammate breakdownCareer With Buffalo
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
The dashed line is a league-typical aging curve for a forward, scaled to this player's own level. Above it means producing more than a typical player that age; the line falling away faster than the curve means declining faster than the aging curve alone would explain.
| Season ▴ | Age | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | Pen +/-/60 | PP | SH | GWG | SOG | S% | FO% | TOI/G | P/60 | ixG | xG/60 | GAx | CF% | FF% | GF% | xG% | PDO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020–21* | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 10:38 | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.34 | -0.1 | 51.5% | 57.7% | 100.0% | 60.3% | 1.083 |
| 2021–22 | 23 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -3 | 23 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 14.3% | 0.0% | 12:59 | 1.46 42nd pct | 2.8 | 0.67 40th pct | -0.8 45th pct | 43.0% 13th pct | 41.3% | 42.1% | 41.1% | 1.003 |
| 2023–24 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | -3.77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 7:58 | 0.00 | 0.2 | 0.60 | -0.2 | 66.7% | 61.5% | 0.0% | 70.4% | 0.500 |
| 2024–25 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0.0% | 7:55 | 0.00 | – | – | – | 34.9% | 25.9% | 0.0% | 4.8% | 0.917 |
| Total | 26 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -5 | 25 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 12.5% | – | 11:50 | 1.17 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
* 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.
Shift Rhythm Profile
How Murray's shift length lines up with on-ice results, 2024–25 regular season. A shift under 0:30 is a quick change, usually right off a whistle. 0:30 to 0:45 is a short shift and 0:45 to 1:00 a typical one. 1:00 or more is a long shift, more likely during a delayed line change, a d-zone lockdown, or a penalty kill that ran long. Shift length is an outcome before it is a cause: a shift runs long because the unit could not change. Most of a long shift is ordinary play, though; the stretch past the one-minute mark is where a unit is really pinned, and each game page counts that time on its own. Empty-net goals against are left out.
5 of 5 of Murray's shifts over a minute were hemmed-in shifts (mostly even strength, more than 60 seconds of unbroken play).
| Shift Length | Shifts | CF% | xG% | GF | GA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quick (<0:30) | 9 | 50.0% | 35.2% | 0 | 0 |
| Short (0:30-0:45) | 13 | 12.5% | 11.4% | 0 | 0 |
| Typical (0:45-1:00) | 8 | 46.2% | 3.3% | 0 | 0 |
| Long (1:00+) | 5 | 37.5% | 0.0% | 0 | 1 |