The Buffalo Sabres used 36 players in the 2011-12 season, with a 39-32-11 record. Jason Pominville led the team with 73 points (30 goals, 43 assists) in 82 games. Ryan Miller played the most games in goal (61).
| # | 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 | Jason Pominville 🇨🇦 RW 29 | 82 | 🔥 1 | 30 | 43 | 73 | 0.89 | 8 | 235 | 30 | 52 | 12 | 19:40 |
| 2 | Thomas Vanek 🇦🇹 LW 28 | 78 | 🔥 1 | 26 | 35 | 61 | 0.78 | 10 | 204 | 34 | 22 | 52 | 16:56 |
| 3 | Drew Stafford 🇺🇸 RW 26 | 80 | 🧊 1 | 20 | 30 | 50 | 0.62 | 3 | 226 | 102 | 22 | 46 | 17:38 |
| 4 | Derek Roy 🇨🇦 C 28 | 80 | 🔥 1 | 17 | 27 | 44 | 0.55 | 6 | 176 | 35 | 50 | 54 | 19:19 |
| 5 | Tyler Ennis 🇨🇦 RW 22 | 48 | 🧊 2 | 15 | 19 | 34 | 0.71 | 2 | 82 | 26 | 18 | 14 | 16:09 |
| 6 | Christian Ehrhoff 🇩🇪 D 29 | 66 | 🧊 3 | 5 | 27 | 32 | 0.48 | 1 | 136 | 47 | 82 | 47 | 23:03 |
| 7 | Ville Leino 🇫🇮 LW 28 | 71 | 🧊 1 | 8 | 17 | 25 | 0.35 | 1 | 78 | 41 | 28 | 16 | 15:55 |
| 8 | Nathan Gerbe 🇺🇸 C 24 | 62 | 🔥 1 | 6 | 19 | 25 | 0.40 | 0 | 137 | 53 | 13 | 32 | 14:12 |
| 9 | Jordan Leopold 🇺🇸 D 31 | 79 | 🧊 2 | 10 | 14 | 24 | 0.30 | 1 | 110 | 54 | 128 | 28 | 22:22 |
| 10 | Brad Boyes 🇨🇦 RW 29 | 65 | 🔥 1 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 0.35 | 2 | 100 | 29 | 24 | 6 | 13:10 |
| 11 | Tyler Myers 🇺🇸 D 22 | 55 | 🧊 1 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 0.42 | 3 | 84 | 78 | 70 | 33 | 22:29 |
| 12 | Luke Adam 🇨🇦 C 21 | 52 | 🧊 20 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 0.38 | 0 | 89 | 26 | 15 | 14 | 12:24 |
| 13 | Paul Gaustad 🇺🇸 C 30 | 56 | 🧊 6 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 0.30 | 0 | 62 | 98 | 40 | 70 | 15:04 |
| 14 | Marcus Foligno 🇺🇸 LW 20 | 14 | 🧊 1 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 0.93 | 2 | 23 | 44 | 11 | 9 | 15:48 |
| 15 | Andrej Sekera 🇸🇰 D 25 | 69 | 🧊 12 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 0.19 | 1 | 88 | 56 | 93 | 18 | 19:36 |
| 16 | Marc-Andre Gragnani 🇨🇦 D 25 | 44 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 0.27 | 1 | 35 | 12 | 27 | 20 | 16:22 |
| 17 | Patrick Kaleta 🇺🇸 RW 25 | 63 | 🧊 12 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 0.16 | 0 | 69 | 139 | 46 | 116 | 13:09 |
| 18 | Jochen Hecht 🇩🇪 C 34 | 22 | 🧊 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0.36 | 0 | 40 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 16:49 |
| 19 | Matt Ellis 🇨🇦 LW 30 | 60 | 🧊 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.13 | 0 | 85 | 34 | 17 | 25 | 9:43 |
| 20 | Corey Tropp 🇺🇸 RW 22 | 34 | 🧊 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.24 | 0 | 32 | 47 | 20 | 20 | 10:05 |
| 21 | Cody Hodgson 🇨🇦 C 22 | 20 | 🧊 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.40 | 2 | 51 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 17:16 |
| 22 | Alexander Sulzer 🇩🇪 D 27 | 15 | 🔥 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0.53 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 24 | 6 | 19:18 |
| 23 | Brayden McNabb 🇨🇦 D 21 | 25 | 🔥 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0.32 | 1 | 23 | 49 | 30 | 15 | 17:50 |
| 24 | Zack Kassian 🇨🇦 RW 21 | 27 | 🧊 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0.26 | 0 | 36 | 39 | 1 | 20 | 11:55 |
| 25 | Robyn Regehr 🇧🇷 D 31 | 76 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.07 | 0 | 49 | 172 | 112 | 56 | 18:37 |
| 26 | Mike Weber 🇺🇸 D 24 | 51 | 🧊 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0.10 | 0 | 51 | 123 | 90 | 64 | 18:34 |
| 27 | Cody McCormick 🇨🇦 C 28 | 50 | 🧊 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0.08 | 0 | 43 | 67 | 11 | 56 | 7:49 |
| 28 | Paul Szczechura 🇨🇦 C 26 | 9 | 🧊 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0.44 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 11:26 |
| 29 | TJ Brennan 🇺🇸 D 22 | 11 | 🧊 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.09 | 0 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 6 | 14:07 |
| 30 | Travis Turnbull 🇺🇸 C 25 | 3 | 🧊 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.33 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4:55 |
| 31 | Joe Finley 🇺🇸 D 24 | 5 | 🧊 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 7:47 |
| 32 | Colin Stuart 🇺🇸 LW 29 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6:11 |
| 33 | Derek Whitmore 🇺🇸 LW 27 | 2 | 🧊 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12:31 |
| Team totals · 33 skaters | 82 | 211 | 363 | 574 | 7.00 | 44 | 2397 | 1512 | 1075 | 884 |
| # | 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 31 | 61 | 31 | 2.46 | 0.916 | 1638 | 150 | — | |
| 2 | Jhonas Enroth 🇸🇪 G 23 | 26 | 8 | 2.42 | 0.917 | 693 | 63 | — | |
| 3 | Drew MacIntyre 🇨🇦 G 28 | 2 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.944 | 17 | 1 | — |
42% of this roster was born in United States, against 24% across the league. The team leans on Germany: 8% of its players, against 1% league-wide. Canadian-born players scored 43% of the team's points.
| Country | Players | Share of roster | vs NHL | Points | Who |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 15 |
|
+18 | 177 (31%) | Stafford, Gerbe, Leopold, Myers +11 |
| Canada | 13 |
|
-17 | 245 (43%) | Pominville, Roy, Ennis, Boyes +9 |
| Germany | 3 |
|
+7 | 48 (8%) | Ehrhoff, Hecht, Sulzer |
| Austria | 1 |
|
+3 | 61 (11%) | Vanek |
| Brazil | 1 |
|
+3 | 5 (1%) | Regehr |
| Finland | 1 |
|
even | 25 (4%) | Leino |
| Slovakia | 1 |
|
+2 | 13 (2%) | Sekera |
| Sweden | 1 |
|
-4 | 0 | Enroth |
Jason Pominville led the Buffalo Sabres in scoring in 2011-12 with 73 points — 30 goals and 43 assists in 82 games. Next came Thomas Vanek (61) and Drew Stafford (50).
Jason Pominville scored 30 goals for the Buffalo Sabres in 2011-12, 8 of them on the power play.
The Buffalo Sabres dressed 36 players in 2011-12: 33 skaters and 3 goalies. Together the skaters scored 211 goals.
Ryan Miller played the most games in goal for the Buffalo Sabres in 2011-12: 61 games, 31 wins, a 0.916 save percentage and a 2.46 goals against average. Jhonas Enroth was the backup, in 26 games.
Christian Ehrhoff averaged 23:03 of ice time per game for the Buffalo Sabres in 2011-12, the most on the roster.
The average age was 26.0 years. Marcus Foligno was the youngest at 20, and Jochen Hecht the oldest at 34.
The Buffalo Sabres used 36 players in 2011-12 with a known birthplace. By country of birth: 15 in the United States, 13 in Canada and 3 in Germany. The other 5 came from Austria, Brazil, Finland, Slovakia and Sweden. League-wide that season, 24% of players were born in the United States, against 42% on this roster.