Team Stats

2012–13 Regular Season*

* 48-game season, shortened by the 2012-13 lockout.

Coaches: Lindy Ruff, Ron Rolston
Total Players: 31
Related2012–13 game results2012–13 standings
Season Summary

21-21-6, 48 points, a -21 goal differential.

PENALTIES
Drew 230, took 242 (-12)
Team Totals
118
139
-21
14.1%
79.2%
46.2%
2.90
8.1%
.926
1.006
GF
GA
DIFF
PP%
PK%
FO%
GAA
S% (5v5)
SV% (5v5)
PDO (5v5)
NHL
22nd
22nd
25th
29th
26th
29th
22nd
12th
12th
11th
CONF
12th
10th
13th
14th
12th
15th
10th
7th
6th
7th
DIV
4th
5th
5th
5th
5th
5th
5th
3rd
3rd
3rd
ALL-TIME
23rd pct
19th pct
15th pct
16th pct
28th pct
23rd pct
56th pct
85th pct

All-time is where 2012–13 ranks among Sabres regular seasons, as a percentile: GF, GA and DIFF since 1970–71 (55 seasons), PP% and PK% since 1977–78 (48), FO% since 1997–98 (28), S% (5v5) and SV% (5v5) since 2009–10 (17). GF, GA and DIFF are relative to each season's league scoring. Higher is better, GA included.

Goal differential
LEAGUE MED 0BUF -21-61+52
One dot per NHL team.
PDO (5v5)
LEAGUE MED 1.003BUF 1.0060.9611.030
One dot per NHL team.
Team Leaders

Skater Scatter

Any two stats, one dot per skater. What is xG?

Dot size is ice time per game. Above the dashed line: more Goals than xG.

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Games 1 (Jan 20) to 48 (Apr 26)

48 games.

Shot Map

Every BUF shot attempt this season, to scale, attacking right.

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

Win DNA

Yes-or-no box-score traits, and how often the Sabres won with and without each. Correlation, not cause.

How this is measured

Every counting stat runs higher in a win (you score more when you win), so each game gets a yes-or-no question instead, and the win rate when yes is set against the win rate when no. The gap is the lift, in percentage points. A trait can be a symptom of a good night as much as a reason for one. Shot-attempt share (CF%) is left out: in a single game the trailing team piles up attempts, so out-attempting the opponent has gone with a lower win rate.

21-27 in 48 decided games, 2012–13 regular season, with 6 of those losses in overtime or a shootout.
Wins (21)Losses (27, 6 in overtime or a shootout)
3+ scorersD combined 3+ ptsScored firstDepth goal50%100%

The wider the gap on an axis, the more that trait separates a win from a loss.

The raw split, wins vs losses

The totals the table above deliberately doesn't lead with. Goals and points from both positions climb in wins, but the defense's share of the offense barely moves, which is why the question is who else scored, not whether the D did.

PER GAMEWINS (21)LOSSES (27)
Forward goals2.711.59
Defense goals0.430.33
Forward points6.713.96
Defense points1.861.26
Different goal scorers2.621.74
D share of points22%24%
D share of shots22%26%

Line Combinations

Lines and pairs at 5v5 this season, summed over every game together. 48 of 48 games have shift data.

What do TOI, CF, xG% etc. mean?
GP
Games in which this exact line/pair shared the ice together at 5v5.
TOI
Time on ice together at 5v5, meaning the whole line/pair on the ice at once, not any one player's own total. Only the seconds that exact pair or trio was the unit count, which is why a pair's TOI and xG% here differ slightly from the WOWY table, where together counts every 5v5 second the two share, whoever else is on the ice.
xGF / xGA
Expected goals for/against while this combo was on the ice, from this site's own xG model.
xG%
Share of on-ice expected goals this combo earned: xGF / (xGF + xGA). The single best read on who controlled play.
GF / GA
Actual goals for/against while this combo was on the ice together.
CF / CA (Corsi For / Against, Shot Attempts)
"Corsi" is just the hockey-analytics name for total shot attempts: shots on goal, missed shots, and blocked shots combined, a volume proxy for who had the puck more. CF is this combo's own attempts, CA is the opponent's.
CF%
Share of on-ice shot attempts (Corsi) this combo earned: CF / (CF + CA).
CF% Rel
This combo's CF% minus the team's own CF% in the minutes this exact combo was NOT on the ice. Positive means the combo lifted the team's play; negative means it dragged it down.
xGF% Rel
This combo's xG% minus the team's own xG% in the minutes this exact combo was NOT on the ice. Positive means the combo lifted the team's expected-goals share; negative means it dragged it down.
FF / FA
Unblocked shot attempts (also called Fenwick): shots on goal plus misses, excluding blocks. One layer closer to real scoring chances than CF/CA.
SF / SA
Shots on goal for/against while this combo was on the ice together.
Minimum Ice Time
Drag the slider on each table down to see combos with less shared ice time. Their percentages get noisier the lower you go, since a combo that barely played together can swing to 100% or 0% off a single shot.
STRENGTH
Forward Lines
LineGPTOIxGFxGAxG%GFGACFCACF%CF% RelxGF% RelFFFASFSA
Pominville–Vanek–Hodgson27296:390.000.00201331329851.2%6.9%230223171162
Stafford–Ennis–Foligno21169:060.000.006817213655.8%11.4%1271079684
Porter–Foligno–Flynn14106:450.000.0041936857.8%13.0%77485731
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Defense Pairs
LineGPTOIxGFxGAxG%GFGACFCACF%CF% RelxGF% RelFFFASFSA
Ehrhoff–Myers35277:370.000.009925125849.3%4.6%194186146134
Ehrhoff–Sekera26190:290.000.009918517351.7%7.0%150142110103
Regehr–Sekera21185:440.000.0061112822136.7%-9.4%9017572134
Ehrhoff–Sulzer15179:540.000.009720115556.5%12.3%14211710583
Regehr–Myers20159:160.000.004311515143.2%-2.3%871226881
Pardy–Pysyk12149:230.000.004611512647.7%2.6%791015378
Sekera–Weber17108:470.000.00316811537.2%-8.5%42713053
Ehrhoff–Weber26102:290.000.00328811443.6%-1.8%69825257
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With or Without You

Buffalo's 5v5 CF% and xGF% with Ehrhoff on the ice, with and without each teammate. Δ is together minus apart. That gap is always measured from the named player's side, so the same pair can read positive on one player's table and negative on the other's. 2012–13 regular season, minimum 20:00 together. Together counts every 5v5 second the two share, whoever else is on the ice, so a pair's time and xGF% here differ slightly from the Line Combinations table, which counts only the seconds that exact pair or trio was the unit. 48 of 48 games have shift data.

Teammate
TOGETHER
EHRHOFF APART
IMPACT
TOI TogetherCF%xGF%CF%xGF%Δ CF%Δ xGF%
Myers
279:1248.9%
50.9%
-2.0
Ennis
264:2246.7%
52.0%
-5.3
Hodgson
259:5553.0%
49.0%
+4.0
Ott
233:2246.9%
51.5%
-4.6
Vanek
226:5747.5%
51.4%
-3.9
Pominville
212:2553.6%
49.0%
+4.6
Stafford
211:1252.8%
49.4%
+3.4
Sekera
191:2651.4%
50.0%
+1.4
Foligno
188:1456.0%
48.6%
+7.4
Hecht
183:1651.8%
49.9%
+1.9
Sulzer
180:0856.6%
48.4%
+8.2
Gerbe
156:1147.3%
51.0%
-3.7
Porter
142:2648.7%
50.6%
-1.9
Flynn
123:5252.8%
49.9%
+2.9
Weber
103:0743.1%
51.3%
-8.2
Kaleta
100:4249.5%
50.4%
-0.9
Grigorenko
68:5150.8%
50.2%
+0.6
Scott
53:5858.8%
49.7%
+9.1
Leino
48:0334.4%
51.2%
-16.8
Leopold
41:1148.1%
50.4%
-2.3

Shift Profile

Shift length and on-ice results, 2012–13 regular season. Empty-net goals against are left out. 48 of 48 games have shift data.

What do Short %, Hemmed-In Shifts, Long-Change Gap etc. mean?
GP (shifts)
Games in which the NHL shift chart has rows for this skater. It can read lower than the games played in the Skaters table, because a game with no usable shift chart is left out of every column here.
Short / Long
"Short" is a skater's shifts under 0:45; "Long" is their shifts of 1:00 or more. Short % / Long % is the share of all their shifts that fall in that range.
CF% (short) / CF% (long)
Shot-attempt share (Corsi) specifically during a skater's own short shifts versus their own long shifts. Compares whether they generate or allow more when the shift is quick versus when it drags on.
GF-GA (long)
Goals for minus goals against specifically during a skater's shifts of 1:00 or more. A single-game or short-series number here is a very small sample; look for it to hold up across a season.
PP Shifts / PK Shifts
Number of shifts a skater started while their team had a power play or was shorthanded, tagged by the strength in effect at the moment they stepped on the ice.
Long-Change Gap
This skater's average 2nd-period shift length minus the average of their 1st and 3rd. Positive means their shifts really do run longer in the 2nd, but that period is the "long change" (the bench sits at center ice, so whichever team is defending the far end can't change on the fly as easily), so a positive gap isn't automatically fatigue.
Hemmed-In Shifts
Even-strength shifts in which the unit was on for more than 60 seconds of unbroken play: no whistle came, so they could not change. The number in parentheses is how many of those only ended at a whistle. Most of such a shift is ordinary play: the first minute looks like any other stretch of the game, and only the time past it tilts hard toward the defending end (the game page counts that as pinned time). Shift length is an outcome here, not a cause, so this column says nothing about why a goal went in.
Short-Rest Shifts
Even-strength shifts a skater started after less than 45 seconds on the bench, same period only (an intermission is a full rest). Power-play and penalty-kill units legitimately take long shifts and short rests, so both of these columns leave them out.
PlayerGP (shifts)ShiftsAvg ShiftShort %Long %CF% (short)CF% (long)GF-GA (long)PP ShiftsPK ShiftsLong-Change GapHemmed-In ShiftsShort-Rest Shifts
C. Ehrhoff4713230:5438.3%34.8%48.6%53.5%+1134154+7s186 (57 to whistle)165
S. Ott4810920:4943.9%28.7%40.9%43.9%-4134170+5s128 (37 to whistle)50
C. Hodgson4810820:4942.0%29.2%48.0%50.3%-3133130+1s128 (35 to whistle)37
T. Myers3910360:4846.3%26.2%41.9%42.2%-9106144+4s107 (31 to whistle)94
D. Stafford469700:4842.0%27.0%42.2%48.2%-16124123+3s121 (31 to whistle)38
A. Sekera379570:4944.6%27.0%39.0%39.4%-263115+5s131 (47 to whistle)102
M. Weber429570:4844.9%23.9%42.3%28.9%-729164+8s103 (30 to whistle)63
T. Ennis479550:5336.4%34.8%49.0%58.3%+114030+3s155 (38 to whistle)27
J. Pominville379180:5141.8%30.3%46.3%55.5%-5113136+5s93 (26 to whistle)33
J. Hecht478480:4649.2%22.5%46.7%36.4%-333124+6s106 (23 to whistle)20
T. Vanek388010:5237.0%34.6%52.6%56.2%+79545+4s119 (25 to whistle)22
M. Foligno477890:4940.6%28.5%52.0%55.9%-39034+5s122 (29 to whistle)22
R. Regehr297280:4556.6%17.7%39.9%24.7%-526126+5s49 (13 to whistle)61
N. Gerbe426640:4739.6%24.7%46.5%43.9%+16826+4s94 (19 to whistle)16
J. Leopold246150:4944.7%27.2%45.3%42.2%-86677+5s79 (22 to whistle)46
K. Porter315770:4941.1%29.3%41.2%37.0%-23785+6s100 (30 to whistle)15
P. Kaleta345180:4353.3%15.3%37.6%23.5%-121109-1s44 (7 to whistle)10
B. Flynn264790:4843.4%25.5%45.1%42.3%+22959+5s75 (21 to whistle)16
M. Pysyk193920:4747.7%22.4%38.6%39.7%+12316+6s48 (12 to whistle)25
A. Sulzer173590:4746.8%24.2%47.0%52.0%-3937+2s45 (8 to whistle)29
A. Pardy173550:4744.8%25.9%43.6%34.1%01237+6s49 (13 to whistle)23
M. Grigorenko253220:4841.0%27.0%51.1%44.9%-2255+6s56 (12 to whistle)7
J. Scott342600:4350.8%16.5%48.5%42.2%066+1s29 (8 to whistle)2
T. Brennan101930:4647.2%24.4%48.5%48.5%0186+3s23 (4 to whistle)16
V. Leino81390:5529.5%41.7%34.1%44.9%-2204-1s37 (11 to whistle)5
C. Ruhwedel71300:4653.1%22.3%52.9%31.7%-134-2s18 (6 to whistle)6
C. McCormick8730:4247.9%21.9%45.8%40.5%013+7s12 (5 to whistle)1
M. Ellis6600:3763.3%8.3%50.0%16.7%016+7s01
L. Adam4480:4941.7%27.1%47.8%10.7%+151+10s9 (2 to whistle)1

Skaters

PlayerNo.GPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWGSOGG/60A/60P/60SOG/60S%FO%TOI/G
Thomas Vanek2638202141-1209121191.721.803.5210.2116.8%66.7%18:24
Cody Hodgson1948151934-4203111141.021.292.317.7513.2%46.8%18:24
Tyler Ennis6347102131-14162001080.711.502.217.719.3%41.9%17:53
Jason Pominville2937101525+18111940.781.161.947.2910.6%46.5%20:54
Steve Ott94891524+393203730.611.011.624.9212.3%55.7%18:33
Christian Ehrhoff104751722+6341021020.250.861.115.174.9%0.0%25:11
Drew Stafford214661218-16210001210.460.921.389.275.0%44.0%17:01
Marcus Foligno824751318-441100550.471.221.695.159.1%60.0%13:38
Jochen Hecht55475914+618011690.470.841.306.437.2%41.6%13:42
Andrej Sekera443721012-24000330.150.760.922.526.1%0.0%21:12
Brian Flynn65266511+60011490.940.791.737.7012.2%40.0%14:41
Nathan Gerbe42425510-314010640.570.571.147.317.8%0.0%12:30
Kevin Porter1231459-110010370.510.641.144.7010.8%40.2%15:14
Jordan Leopold324268-614000380.240.710.954.495.3%0.0%21:08
Tyler Myers5739358-832102480.220.360.583.466.3%0.0%21:19
Mike Weber642167+370000250.080.470.541.944.0%0.0%18:22
Ville Leino23824606100110.951.902.855.2218.2%40.0%15:48
Mark Pysyk1319145-70100210.190.780.974.074.8%0.0%16:17
Mikhail Grigorenko2525145-10000310.230.941.177.273.2%38.3%10:14
Alexander Sulzer5217314+310001150.640.210.853.2020.0%0.0%16:31
Adam Pardy2717044+41400060.000.860.861.280.0%0.0%16:30
Robyn Regehr2429022-421000150.000.220.221.660.0%0.0%18:39
Patrick Kaleta3634101-467000340.160.000.165.562.9%45.5%10:48
TJ Brennan3310101-16100180.410.000.417.295.6%0.0%14:49
Luke Adam724101+1200021.530.001.533.0650.0%100.0%9:48
Cody McCormick88000-21000060.000.000.006.970.0%48.0%6:27
Matt Ellis3760000000080.000.000.0012.910.0%41.7%6:12
John Scott3234000-169000150.000.000.004.860.0%0.0%5:27
Chad Ruhwedel570000000080.000.000.004.830.0%0.0%14:12
Total1182033216202371413398.8%

Goalies

PlayerNo.GPWLOTLGAASV%SO
Ryan Miller3040171752.81.9150
Jhonas Enroth1124412.60.9191
Total212161

A goalie is credited a game played for any appearance, relief included, so GP sums above the team's own games played by the number of relief outings. The Total row leaves GP out for that reason.