The Buffalo Sabres used 32 players in the 2008-09 season, with a 41-32-9 record. Derek Roy led the team with 70 points (28 goals, 42 assists) in 82 games. Ryan Miller played the most games in goal (59).
| # | Player — sort by name ⇅ | GP — sort by games played ⇅ | Streak | G — sort by goals ⇅ | A — sort by assists ⇅ | PTS — sort by points ▼ | P/GP — sort by points per game ⇅ | PPG — sort by power-play goals ⇅ | SOG — sort by shots on goal ⇅ | HIT — sort by hits ⇅ | BLK — sort by blocked shots ⇅ | PIM — sort by penalty minutes ⇅ | TOI — sort by average ice time ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Derek Roy 🇨🇦 C 25 | 82 | 🧊 1 | 28 | 42 | 70 | 0.85 | 9 | 221 | 41 | 44 | 38 | 21:11 |
| 2 | Jason Pominville 🇨🇦 RW 26 | 82 | 🔥 3 | 20 | 46 | 66 | 0.80 | 6 | 239 | 44 | 50 | 18 | 19:45 |
| 3 | Thomas Vanek 🇦🇹 LW 25 | 73 | 🔥 1 | 40 | 24 | 64 | 0.88 | 20 | 211 | 34 | 27 | 44 | 17:11 |
| 4 | Tim Connolly 🇺🇸 C 27 | 48 | 🔥 2 | 18 | 29 | 47 | 0.98 | 5 | 126 | 17 | 37 | 22 | 19:07 |
| 5 | Drew Stafford 🇺🇸 RW 23 | 79 | 🧊 2 | 20 | 25 | 45 | 0.57 | 9 | 183 | 80 | 18 | 29 | 15:37 |
| 6 | Ales Kotalik 🇨🇿 RW 30 | 56 | 🧊 1 | 13 | 19 | 32 | 0.57 | 8 | 153 | 93 | 13 | 28 | 15:14 |
| 7 | Clarke MacArthur 🇨🇦 LW 23 | 71 | 🧊 1 | 17 | 14 | 31 | 0.44 | 5 | 108 | 80 | 33 | 56 | 13:50 |
| 8 | Paul Gaustad 🇺🇸 C 27 | 62 | 🧊 2 | 12 | 17 | 29 | 0.47 | 3 | 122 | 141 | 39 | 108 | 16:06 |
| 9 | Daniel Paille 🇨🇦 LW 24 | 73 | 🔥 2 | 12 | 15 | 27 | 0.37 | 0 | 80 | 84 | 27 | 20 | 11:54 |
| 10 | Jochen Hecht 🇩🇪 C 31 | 70 | 🧊 1 | 12 | 15 | 27 | 0.39 | 3 | 173 | 29 | 38 | 33 | 17:23 |
| 11 | Maxim Afinogenov 🇷🇺 RW 29 | 48 | 🧊 3 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 0.42 | 0 | 93 | 20 | 11 | 20 | 12:36 |
| 12 | Adam Mair 🇨🇦 C 30 | 75 | 🔥 1 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 0.25 | 0 | 75 | 107 | 20 | 95 | 10:34 |
| 13 | Matt Ellis 🇨🇦 LW 27 | 45 | 🔥 2 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 0.27 | 0 | 73 | 21 | 19 | 12 | 8:49 |
| 14 | Patrick Kaleta 🇺🇸 RW 22 | 51 | 🧊 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0.18 | 0 | 35 | 137 | 27 | 89 | 8:55 |
| 15 | Dominic Moore 🇨🇦 C 28 | 18 | 🧊 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0.22 | 0 | 33 | 9 | 8 | 23 | 15:12 |
| 16 | Mark Mancari 🇨🇦 RW 23 | 7 | 🧊 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.29 | 0 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 13:15 |
| 17 | Nathan Gerbe 🇺🇸 C 21 | 10 | 🧊 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.10 | 0 | 24 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 13:36 |
| 18 | Andrew Peters 🇨🇦 LW 28 | 28 | 🧊 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.04 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 81 | 4:01 |
| 19 | Tim Kennedy 🇺🇸 LW 22 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11:04 |
| Team totals · 19 skaters | 82 | 219 | 287 | 506 | 6.17 | 68 | 1981 | 967 | 414 | 724 |
| # | Goalie — sort by name ⇅ | GP — sort by games played ⇅ | Share of games | W — sort by wins ▼ | GAA — sort by goals against average ⇅ | SV% — sort by save percentage ⇅ | SV — sort by saves ⇅ | GA — sort by goals against ⇅ | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ryan Miller 🇺🇸 G 28 | 59 | 34 | 2.46 | 0.918 | 1628 | 145 | — | |
| 2 | Patrick Lalime 🇨🇦 G 34 | 24 | 6 | 2.79 | 0.900 | 602 | 67 | — | |
| 3 | Mikael Tellqvist 🇸🇪 G 29 | 6 | 2 | 1.50 | 0.928 | 116 | 9 | — |
41% of this roster was born in Canada, against 52% across the league. The team leans on United States: 28% of its players, against 22% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 40% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 13 |
|
-11 | 262 (40%) | Roy, Pominville, MacArthur, Paille +9 |
| United States | 9 |
|
+6 | 137 (21%) | Connolly, Stafford, Gaustad, Kaleta +5 |
| Czechia | 2 |
|
even | 77 (12%) | Spacek, Kotalik |
| Finland | 2 |
|
+2 | 40 (6%) | Lydman, Numminen |
| Sweden | 2 |
|
+1 | 12 (2%) | Tallinder, Tellqvist |
| Austria | 1 |
|
+3 | 64 (10%) | Vanek |
| Germany | 1 |
|
+2 | 27 (4%) | Hecht |
| Russia | 1 |
|
even | 20 (3%) | Afinogenov |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
+1 | 19 (3%) | Sekera |
Derek Roy led the Buffalo Sabres in scoring in 2008-09 with 70 points — 28 goals and 42 assists in 82 games. Next came Jason Pominville (66) and Thomas Vanek (64).
Thomas Vanek scored 40 goals for the Buffalo Sabres in 2008-09, 20 of them on the power play.
The Buffalo Sabres dressed 32 players in 2008-09: 29 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 242 goals.
Ryan Miller played the most games in goal for the Buffalo Sabres in 2008-09: 59 games, 34 wins, a 0.918 save percentage and a 2.46 goals against average. Patrick Lalime was the backup, in 24 games.
Jaroslav Spacek averaged 22:16 of ice time per game for the Buffalo Sabres in 2008-09, the most on the roster.
The average age was 27.0 years. Mike Weber was the youngest at 21, and Teppo Numminen the oldest at 40.
The Buffalo Sabres used 32 players in 2008-09 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 13 in Canada, 9 in the United States and 2 in Czechia. The other 8 came from Finland, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Russia and Slovakia. League-wide that season, 52% of players were born in Canada, against 41% on this roster.