The Buffalo Sabres used 30 players in the 2005-06 season, with a 52-24-6 record. Maxim Afinogenov led the team with 73 points (22 goals, 51 assists) in 77 games. Ryan Miller played the most games in goal (48).
| # | 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 | Maxim Afinogenov 🇷🇺 RW 26 | 77 | 🔥 8 | 22 | 51 | 73 | 0.95 | 11 | 241 | 26 | 15 | 84 | 16:20 |
| 2 | Chris Drury 🇺🇸 C 29 | 81 | 🔥 3 | 30 | 37 | 67 | 0.83 | 16 | 172 | 31 | 86 | 32 | 18:05 |
| 3 | Ales Kotalik 🇨🇿 RW 27 | 82 | 🧊 1 | 25 | 37 | 62 | 0.76 | 10 | 261 | 74 | 14 | 62 | 15:33 |
| 4 | Daniel Brière 🇨🇦 C 28 | 48 | 🔥 4 | 25 | 33 | 58 | 1.21 | 11 | 147 | 10 | 8 | 48 | 19:04 |
| 5 | Tim Connolly 🇺🇸 C 24 | 63 | 🧊 1 | 16 | 39 | 55 | 0.87 | 7 | 99 | 17 | 47 | 28 | 18:00 |
| 6 | Thomas Vanek 🇦🇹 LW 22 | 81 | 🧊 1 | 25 | 23 | 48 | 0.59 | 11 | 204 | 22 | 22 | 72 | 14:43 |
| 7 | Derek Roy 🇨🇦 C 22 | 70 | 🔥 1 | 18 | 28 | 46 | 0.66 | 5 | 151 | 40 | 40 | 57 | 17:01 |
| 8 | Brian Campbell 🇨🇦 D 26 | 79 | 🔥 2 | 12 | 32 | 44 | 0.56 | 5 | 105 | 38 | 51 | 16 | 17:42 |
| 9 | Jochen Hecht 🇩🇪 C 28 | 64 | 🧊 2 | 18 | 24 | 42 | 0.66 | 4 | 179 | 29 | 40 | 34 | 18:07 |
| 10 | J-P Dumont 🇨🇦 RW 28 | 54 | 🔥 3 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 0.74 | 9 | 116 | 48 | 19 | 38 | 16:00 |
| 11 | Teppo Numminen 🇫🇮 D 37 | 75 | 🔥 1 | 2 | 38 | 40 | 0.53 | 0 | 60 | 10 | 89 | 36 | 19:30 |
| 12 | Jason Pominville 🇨🇦 RW 23 | 57 | 🧊 1 | 18 | 12 | 30 | 0.53 | 10 | 124 | 29 | 28 | 22 | 14:07 |
| 13 | Paul Gaustad 🇺🇸 C 24 | 78 | 🧊 1 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 0.31 | 0 | 113 | 126 | 41 | 65 | 12:07 |
| 14 | Mike Grier 🇺🇸 RW 31 | 81 | 🔥 1 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 0.28 | 0 | 109 | 113 | 61 | 28 | 14:22 |
| 15 | Henrik Tallinder 🇸🇪 D 27 | 82 | 🧊 2 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 0.26 | 0 | 79 | 43 | 79 | 74 | 20:20 |
| 16 | Dmitri Kalinin 🇷🇺 D 25 | 55 | 🧊 1 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 0.33 | 0 | 47 | 41 | 54 | 54 | 16:45 |
| 17 | Toni Lydman 🇫🇮 D 28 | 75 | 🧊 2 | 1 | 16 | 17 | 0.23 | 0 | 68 | 98 | 174 | 82 | 21:38 |
| 18 | Jay McKee 🇨🇦 D 28 | 75 | 🧊 2 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 0.21 | 0 | 50 | 93 | 241 | 57 | 18:03 |
| 19 | Taylor Pyatt 🇨🇦 LW 24 | 41 | 🧊 2 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 0.29 | 0 | 62 | 42 | 11 | 33 | 11:14 |
| 20 | Rory Fitzpatrick 🇺🇸 D 31 | 56 | 🧊 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0.16 | 2 | 45 | 52 | 70 | 50 | 16:21 |
| 21 | Adam Mair 🇨🇦 C 27 | 40 | 🧊 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0.17 | 0 | 40 | 51 | 9 | 47 | 7:59 |
| 22 | Jiri Novotny 🇨🇿 C 22 | 14 | 🧊 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0.21 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 12:14 |
| 23 | Daniel Paille 🇨🇦 LW 21 | 14 | 🧊 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.21 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 10:23 |
| 24 | Chris Thorburn 🇨🇦 RW 22 | 2 | 🔥 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.50 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6:52 |
| 25 | Nathan Paetsch 🇨🇦 D 23 | 1 | 🔥 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:38 |
| 26 | Jeff Jillson 🇺🇸 D 25 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 14:39 |
| 27 | Andrew Peters 🇨🇦 LW 25 | 29 | 🧊 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 100 | 3:15 |
| Team totals · 27 skaters | 82 | 276 | 484 | 760 | 9.27 | 101 | 2510 | 1073 | 1211 | 1132 |
| # | 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 | 48 | 31 | 2.58 | 0.914 | 1316 | 124 | — | |
| 2 | Martin Biron 🇨🇦 G 28 | 35 | 21 | 2.66 | 0.905 | 887 | 93 | — | |
| 3 | Mika Noronen 🇫🇮 G 26 | 4 | 1 | 3.00 | 0.844 | 65 | 12 | — |
43% of this roster was born in Canada, against 54% across the league. The team leans on Finland: 10% of its players, against 4% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 34% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 13 |
|
-11 | 258 (34%) | Brière, Roy, Campbell, Dumont +9 |
| United States | 7 |
|
+5 | 178 (23%) | Drury, Connolly, Gaustad, Grier +3 |
| Finland | 3 |
|
+6 | 57 (8%) | Numminen, Lydman, Noronen |
| Czechia | 2 |
|
even | 65 (9%) | Kotalik, Novotny |
| Russia | 2 |
|
+3 | 91 (12%) | Afinogenov, Kalinin |
| Austria | 1 |
|
+3 | 48 (6%) | Vanek |
| Germany | 1 |
|
+2 | 42 (6%) | Hecht |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-2 | 21 (3%) | Tallinder |
Maxim Afinogenov led the Buffalo Sabres in scoring in 2005-06 with 73 points — 22 goals and 51 assists in 77 games. Next came Chris Drury (67) and Ales Kotalik (62).
Chris Drury scored 30 goals for the Buffalo Sabres in 2005-06, 16 of them on the power play.
The Buffalo Sabres dressed 30 players in 2005-06: 27 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 276 goals.
Ryan Miller played the most games in goal for the Buffalo Sabres in 2005-06: 48 games, 31 wins, a 0.914 save percentage and a 2.58 goals against average. Martin Biron was the backup, in 35 games.
Toni Lydman averaged 21:38 of ice time per game for the Buffalo Sabres in 2005-06, the most on the roster.
The average age was 26.1 years. Daniel Paille was the youngest at 21, and Teppo Numminen the oldest at 37.
The Buffalo Sabres used 30 players in 2005-06 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 13 in Canada, 7 in the United States and 3 in Finland. The other 7 came from Czechia, Russia, Austria, Germany and Sweden. League-wide that season, 54% of players were born in Canada, against 43% on this roster.