The Buffalo Sabres used 39 players in the 2020-21 season, with a 15-34-7 record. Sam Reinhart led the team with 40 points (25 goals, 15 assists) in 54 games. Linus Ullmark played the most games in goal (20).
| # | 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 | Sam Reinhart 🇨🇦 C 25 | 54 | 🧊 3 | 25 | 15 | 40 | 0.74 | 10 | 130 | 15 | 27 | 10 | 19:32 |
| 2 | Victor Olofsson 🇸🇪 LW 25 | 56 | 🧊 2 | 13 | 19 | 32 | 0.57 | 7 | 129 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 17:23 |
| 3 | Rasmus Dahlin 🇸🇪 D 20 | 56 | 🧊 7 | 5 | 18 | 23 | 0.41 | 1 | 115 | 80 | 45 | 26 | 21:36 |
| 4 | Casey Mittelstadt 🇺🇸 C 22 | 41 | 🧊 1 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 0.54 | 3 | 61 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 15:52 |
| 5 | Taylor Hall 🇨🇦 LW 29 | 37 | 🔥 1 | 2 | 17 | 19 | 0.51 | 1 | 88 | 24 | 11 | 24 | 18:40 |
| 6 | Rasmus Ristolainen 🇫🇮 D 26 | 49 | 🧊 1 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 0.37 | 1 | 73 | 193 | 68 | 36 | 22:17 |
| 7 | Jack Eichel 🇺🇸 C 24 | 21 | 🔥 4 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 0.86 | 1 | 61 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 20:29 |
| 8 | Tage Thompson 🇺🇸 C 23 | 38 | 🧊 1 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 0.37 | 2 | 96 | 25 | 8 | 17 | 13:52 |
| 9 | Jeff Skinner 🇨🇦 C 28 | 53 | 🧊 1 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 0.26 | 1 | 111 | 20 | 12 | 14 | 14:31 |
| 10 | Brandon Montour 🇨🇦 D 26 | 38 | 🧊 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 0.37 | 0 | 72 | 35 | 53 | 24 | 20:32 |
| 11 | Dylan Cozens 🇨🇦 C 20 | 41 | 🧊 8 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 0.32 | 1 | 62 | 30 | 11 | 16 | 14:21 |
| 12 | Riley Sheahan 🇨🇦 C 29 | 53 | 🧊 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 0.25 | 0 | 44 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 13:18 |
| 13 | Kyle Okposo 🇺🇸 RW 32 | 35 | 🧊 2 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 0.37 | 0 | 45 | 29 | 14 | 0 | 13:52 |
| 14 | Colin Miller 🇨🇦 D 28 | 48 | 🧊 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 0.25 | 1 | 64 | 91 | 51 | 27 | 18:00 |
| 15 | Rasmus Asplund 🇸🇪 C 23 | 28 | 🧊 3 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 0.39 | 0 | 34 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 12:51 |
| 16 | Eric Staal 🇨🇦 C 36 | 32 | 🧊 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0.31 | 1 | 59 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 15:33 |
| 17 | Curtis Lazar 🇨🇦 C 26 | 33 | 🔥 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0.27 | 0 | 35 | 64 | 16 | 0 | 13:36 |
| 18 | Jacob Bryson 🇨🇦 D 23 | 38 | 🧊 3 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 0.24 | 0 | 24 | 32 | 43 | 12 | 19:02 |
| 19 | Henri Jokiharju 🇫🇮 D 21 | 46 | 🧊 13 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.17 | 0 | 50 | 47 | 53 | 4 | 18:22 |
| 20 | Tobias Rieder 🇩🇪 LW 28 | 44 | 🧊 4 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0.16 | 0 | 63 | 21 | 34 | 2 | 12:14 |
| 21 | Cody Eakin 🇨🇦 C 29 | 46 | 🔥 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0.15 | 0 | 39 | 33 | 20 | 14 | 12:56 |
| 22 | Arttu Ruotsalainen 🇫🇮 C 23 | 17 | 🧊 4 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0.35 | 0 | 28 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 13:58 |
| 23 | Anders Bjork 🇺🇸 LW 24 | 15 | 🧊 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0.40 | 0 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 17:02 |
| 24 | Drake Caggiula 🇨🇦 LW 26 | 11 | 🧊 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.27 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 12:19 |
| 25 | Steven Fogarty 🇺🇸 C 27 | 9 | 🧊 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.33 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 11:43 |
| 26 | Jake McCabe 🇺🇸 D 27 | 13 | 🧊 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.23 | 0 | 15 | 22 | 15 | 9 | 19:10 |
| 27 | Matt Irwin 🇨🇦 D 33 | 24 | 🧊 18 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.08 | 0 | 27 | 56 | 43 | 19 | 16:15 |
| 28 | Mattias Samuelsson 🇺🇸 D 21 | 12 | 🧊 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.17 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 18:01 |
| 29 | Brandon Davidson 🇨🇦 D 29 | 6 | 🧊 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 15:20 |
| 30 | Will Borgen 🇺🇸 D 24 | 10 | 🧊 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 7 | 30 | 14 | 4 | 16:15 |
| 31 | C.J. Smith 🇺🇸 LW 26 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7:57 |
| 32 | Jean-Sebastien Dea 🇨🇦 C 27 | 1 | 🧊 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5:33 |
| 33 | Brett Murray 🇨🇦 LW 22 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10:37 |
| Team totals · 33 skaters | 56 | 134 | 217 | 351 | 6.27 | 30 | 1591 | 1025 | 640 | 330 |
| # | 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 | Carter Hutton 🇨🇦 G 35 | 13 | 1 | 3.00 | 0.886 | 302 | 39 | — | |
| 2 | Dustin Tokarski 🇨🇦 G 31 | 13 | 2 | 3.31 | 0.904 | 404 | 43 | — | |
| 3 | Jonas Johansson 🇸🇪 G 25 | 7 | 0 | 3.43 | 0.884 | 183 | 24 | — | |
| 4 | Linus Ullmark 🇸🇪 G 27 | 20 | 9 | 2.45 | 0.917 | 542 | 49 | — | |
| 5 | Michael Houser 🇺🇸 G 28 | 4 | 2 | 3.50 | 0.901 | 127 | 14 | — | |
| 6 | Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 🇫🇮 G 22 | 4 | 1 | 3.50 | 0.906 | 135 | 14 | — |
46% of this roster was born in Canada, against 42% across the league. The team leans on Sweden: 13% of its players, against 9% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 47% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 18 |
|
+4 | 165 (47%) | Reinhart, Hall, Skinner, Montour +14 |
| United States | 11 |
|
-1 | 81 (23%) | Mittelstadt, Eichel, Thompson, Okposo +7 |
| Sweden | 5 |
|
+4 | 66 (19%) | Olofsson, Dahlin, Asplund, Ullmark +1 |
| Finland | 4 |
|
+4 | 32 (9%) | Ristolainen, Jokiharju, Ruotsalainen, Luukkonen |
| Germany | 1 |
|
+2 | 7 (2%) | Rieder |
Sam Reinhart led the Buffalo Sabres in scoring in 2020-21 with 40 points — 25 goals and 15 assists in 54 games. Next came Victor Olofsson (32) and Rasmus Dahlin (23).
Sam Reinhart scored 25 goals for the Buffalo Sabres in 2020-21, 10 of them on the power play.
The Buffalo Sabres dressed 39 players in 2020-21: 33 skaters and 6 goalies. Together the skaters scored 134 goals.
Linus Ullmark played the most games in goal for the Buffalo Sabres in 2020-21: 20 games, 9 wins, a 0.917 save percentage and a 2.45 goals against average. Dustin Tokarski was the backup, in 13 games.
Rasmus Ristolainen averaged 22:17 of ice time per game for the Buffalo Sabres in 2020-21, the most on the roster.
The average age was 26.2 years. Dylan Cozens was the youngest at 20, and Eric Staal the oldest at 36.
The Buffalo Sabres used 39 players in 2020-21 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 18 in Canada, 11 in the United States and 5 in Sweden. The other 5 came from Finland and Germany. League-wide that season, 42% of players were born in Canada, against 46% on this roster.