The Buffalo Sabres used 26 players in the 2005-06 playoffs, with a 11-6-1 record. Daniel Brière led the team with 19 points (8 goals, 11 assists) in 18 games. Ryan Miller played the most games in goal (18).
| # | 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 | Daniel Brière 🇨🇦 C 28 | 18 | 🧊 1 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 1.06 | 3 | 47 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 18:47 |
| 2 | Chris Drury 🇺🇸 C 29 | 18 | 🔥 1 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 1.00 | 5 | 42 | 12 | 24 | 10 | 19:20 |
| 3 | Derek Roy 🇨🇦 C 22 | 18 | 🧊 1 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 0.83 | 1 | 33 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 17:03 |
| 4 | J-P Dumont 🇨🇦 RW 28 | 18 | 🧊 1 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 0.78 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 2 | 14 | 16:39 |
| 5 | Tim Connolly 🇺🇸 C 24 | 8 | 🧊 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 1.38 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 17:29 |
| 6 | Ales Kotalik 🇨🇿 RW 27 | 18 | 🔥 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 0.61 | 0 | 51 | 28 | 6 | 8 | 15:15 |
| 7 | Jason Pominville 🇨🇦 RW 23 | 18 | 🧊 6 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 0.56 | 0 | 22 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 12:11 |
| 8 | Mike Grier 🇺🇸 RW 31 | 18 | 🧊 11 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.44 | 0 | 32 | 57 | 11 | 2 | 16:16 |
| 9 | Maxim Afinogenov 🇷🇺 RW 26 | 18 | 🧊 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.44 | 0 | 43 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 16:53 |
| 10 | Henrik Tallinder 🇸🇪 D 27 | 14 | 🧊 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0.57 | 0 | 12 | 23 | 23 | 16 | 22:15 |
| 11 | Jochen Hecht 🇩🇪 C 28 | 15 | 🔥 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0.53 | 0 | 36 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 17:28 |
| 12 | Brian Campbell 🇨🇦 D 26 | 18 | 🔥 2 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0.33 | 0 | 29 | 13 | 26 | 12 | 20:28 |
| 13 | Jay McKee 🇨🇦 D 28 | 17 | 🧊 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0.29 | 0 | 21 | 41 | 64 | 30 | 20:17 |
| 14 | Toni Lydman 🇫🇮 D 28 | 18 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.28 | 0 | 14 | 36 | 52 | 18 | 23:03 |
| 15 | Taylor Pyatt 🇨🇦 LW 24 | 14 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0.36 | 0 | 17 | 24 | 6 | 10 | 11:07 |
| 16 | Paul Gaustad 🇺🇸 C 24 | 18 | 🧊 11 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.22 | 0 | 13 | 36 | 10 | 14 | 12:21 |
| 17 | Rory Fitzpatrick 🇺🇸 D 31 | 11 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.36 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 24 | 16 | 17:11 |
| 18 | Thomas Vanek 🇦🇹 LW 22 | 10 | 🔥 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.20 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10:44 |
| 19 | Teppo Numminen 🇫🇮 D 37 | 12 | 🧊 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.17 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 18:45 |
| 20 | Dmitri Kalinin 🇷🇺 D 25 | 8 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.25 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 17 | 2 | 16:53 |
| 21 | Doug Janik 🇺🇸 D 26 | 5 | 🔥 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.20 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 10:29 |
| 22 | Jiri Novotny 🇨🇿 C 22 | 4 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 10:27 |
| 23 | Adam Mair 🇨🇦 C 27 | 3 | 🧊 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9:16 |
| 24 | Jeff Jillson 🇺🇸 D 25 | 4 | 🧊 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11:40 |
| 25 | Nathan Paetsch 🇨🇦 D 23 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:06 |
| Team totals · 25 skaters | 18 | 60 | 106 | 166 | 9.22 | 16 | 505 | 411 | 345 | 218 |
| # | 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 25 | 18 | 11 | 2.67 | 0.908 | 474 | 48 | — |
35% of this roster was born in Canada, against 50% across the league. The team leans on United States: 31% of its players, against 18% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 45% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 9 |
|
-15 | 74 (45%) | Brière, Roy, Dumont, Pominville +5 |
| United States | 8 |
|
+13 | 46 (28%) | Drury, Connolly, Grier, Gaustad +4 |
| Czechia | 2 |
|
even | 11 (7%) | Kotalik, Novotny |
| Finland | 2 |
|
+2 | 7 (4%) | Lydman, Numminen |
| Russia | 2 |
|
+4 | 10 (6%) | Afinogenov, Kalinin |
| Austria | 1 |
|
+4 | 2 (1%) | Vanek |
| Germany | 1 |
|
+3 | 8 (5%) | Hecht |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-2 | 8 (5%) | Tallinder |
Daniel Brière led the Buffalo Sabres in scoring in the 2005-06 playoffs with 19 points — 8 goals and 11 assists in 18 games. Next came Chris Drury (18) and Derek Roy (15).
Chris Drury scored 9 goals for the Buffalo Sabres in the 2005-06 playoffs, 5 of them on the power play.
The Buffalo Sabres dressed 26 players in the 2005-06 playoffs: 25 skaters and 1 goalies. Together the skaters scored 60 goals.
Ryan Miller played the most games in goal for the Buffalo Sabres in the 2005-06 playoffs: 18 games, 11 wins, a 0.908 save percentage and a 2.67 goals against average.
Toni Lydman averaged 23:03 of ice time per game for the Buffalo Sabres in the 2005-06 playoffs, the most on the roster.
The average age was 26.4 years. Derek Roy was the youngest at 22, and Teppo Numminen the oldest at 37.
The Buffalo Sabres used 26 players in the 2005-06 playoffs with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 9 in Canada, 8 in the United States and 2 in Czechia. The other 7 came from Finland, Russia, Austria, Germany and Sweden. League-wide that season, 50% of players were born in Canada, against 35% on this roster.