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Buffalo Sabres Sabres ·

Status: Pro 100%
Age / YOB: 31 (1995)
Contract: $7,500,000 × 5y
Expires: UFA 2031
Waivers: Eligible
Acquired: Free Agent · Aug 2025
Drafted: 2013 Rd 3 (#76) LAK
Vitals: 6'2" · 183 lb

Ratings

Percentile vs 494 fwds

CK 73 49th

FG 43 32nd

DI 87 48th

SK 79 66th

ST 69 28th

EN 76 74th

DU 94 71st

PH 83 79th

FO 40 33rd

PA 79 78th

SC 83 82nd

DF 68 44th

PS 25 35th

EX 71 64th

LD 76 69th

OV 73 77th

Contract

Cap hit $7,500,000 $7.014M remaining

Year 2 of 6

2025-26

2026-27

2030-31

Expiry Status

UFA

2031 age 36

Clauses 1-way

Season so far

in 5 GP

Goals

1 leader105

pace 17 (last yr 21)

Sht% 9.1%

Assists

0 leader134

pace 0 (last yr 30)

Plus/Minus +1 91st

Points

1 leader218

pace 17 (last yr 51)

P/20 0.23

ATOI

17:47 leader23:55

last yr 18:09

PP share 46%

Stats

2026-27 · Sabres

	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PiM	ATOI	P/20	GW	GT	S	S%	PPG	PPP	SHG	Hits	HTT	FO%	HT	PP TOI	%PP	SH TOI	%SH	EV TOI
YTD	5	1	0	1	+1	2	17:47	0.23	0	0	11	9.1	0	0	0	7	4	17	0	1:53	46.0	0:58	14.4	14:55
On Pace	82	16	0	16	16	33	-	-	0	0	180	-	0	0	0	115	-	-	0	-	-	-	-	-

OTHL Career
Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	+/-	PiM	GW	PPG	SHG	S	S%	Hit
2019-20	LAK	43	3	1	4	0.09	-7	6	1	0	0	28	10.7%	11
2020-21	LAK / BUF	36	1	3	4	0.11	-13	6	0	1	0	21	4.8%	19
2021-22	BUF	82	19	24	43	0.52	+2	34	2	5	1	231	8.2%	132
2022-23	BUF	82	16	24	40	0.49	+14	26	2	1	0	188	8.5%	46
2023-24	BUF	82	17	35	52	0.63	+23	2	0	1	1	279	6.1%	36
2024-25	BUF	82	29	33	62	0.76	+29	18	5	4	0	246	11.8%	100
2025-26	BUF	82	21	30	51	0.62	+13	34	3	3	0	209	10.0%	119
CAREER	7 yrs	489	106	150	256	0.52	+61	126	13	15	2	--	8.8%	463

OTHL Playoffs
Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	+/-	PiM	GW	PPG	SHG	S	S%	Hit
2021-22	BUF	7	2	1	3	0.43	-1	2	0	0	0	26	7.7%	9
2022-23	BUF	7	1	4	5	0.71	+5	2	0	0	0	10	10.0%	3
2023-24	BUF	22	8	8	16	0.73	+1	6	3	2	0	51	15.7%	15
2024-25	BUF	12	4	4	8	0.67	+8	2	0	0	0	34	11.8%	23
CAREER	4 app.	48	15	17	32	0.67	+13	12	3	2	0	--	12.4%	50

2026-27 Regular Season

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								Shots			Hits		Ice time			Face-off		PP				PK			EV
Date	Opp	Result	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	S	SAT	SB	Hit	HTT	L#	TOI	POSS	FO%	FOT	TOI	G	A	S	TOI	G	S	TOI	G	A	S
Nov 05	UTA	L 3-4 OT	1	0	1	+2	0	4	7	0	0	0	F2	18:35	1:45	33%	3	2:10	0	0	0	0:55	0	0	15:30	1	0	4
Nov 03	DAL	L 2-4	0	0	0	-1	0	3	4	0	1	0	F2	17:10	1:50	0%	1	2:08	0	0	1	1:04	0	0	13:58	0	0	2
Nov 01	MIN	W 4-3 OT	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	F2	18:25	1:42	-	0	1:50	0	0	0	0:49	0	0	15:46	0	0	0
Oct 29	CHI	W 2-0	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	0	1	1	F2	17:11	1:25	0%	1	0:34	0	0	0	1:32	0	0	15:05	0	0	1
Oct 27	CLB	L 2-6	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	3	1	F2	17:32	1:58	0%	1	2:43	0	0	1	0:31	0	0	14:18	0	0	2
5 GP			1	0	1	+1	2	11	18	1	7	4	--	17:47	1:44	17%	6	9:25	0	0	2	4:51	0	0	74:37	1	0	9

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PiM	GW	PPG	PPP	S	TOI
2026-27	FLA	16	9	6	15	+6	8	2	5	6	34	18:16
On Pace	-	82	46	31	77	+31	41	10	26	31	174	-

NHL Career Stats
Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	+/-	PiM	GW	PPG	PPP	S%	TOI
2019-20	TBL	52	9	4	13	0.25	-9	8	1	1	1	15.8%	9:22
2020-21	FLA	43	18	18	36	0.84	+24	31	3	1	2	16.8%	17:44
2021-22	FLA	78	24	31	55	0.71	+24	48	4	0	3	14.4%	16:03
2022-23	FLA	81	42	31	73	0.90	+10	46	2	7	13	15.3%	17:30
2023-24	FLA	76	34	38	72	0.95	+17	36	7	8	21	13.8%	17:58
2024-25	FLA	81	20	33	53	0.65	-14	46	5	5	16	8.3%	17:52
2025-26	FLA	77	25	30	55	0.71	-14	32	4	6	11	13.4%	17:37
2026-27	FLA	16	9	6	15	0.94	+6	8	2	5	6	26.5%	18:16
Career	NHL	504	181	191	372	0.74	+44	255	28	33	73	13.8%	-

History

Overall, season by season

Above the band is elite. Inside it, above average. Below it, below average.

OV Forwards, average to top 10%

Attributes

Season	Age	Pos	Team	CK	FG	DI	SK	ST	EN	DU	PH	FO	PA	SC	DF	PS	EX	LD	OV
2019-20	24	C	LAK	73	68	86	64	68	80	83	70	80	68	67	68	64	54	54	65
2020-21	25	C	BUF	67	42	94	64	68	54	81	61	40	58	70	61	25	59	59	61
2021-22	26	C	BUF	71	43	79	80	69	76	75	74	43	80	89	63	25	61	62	70
2022-23	27	C	BUF	67	42	82	81	69	73	86	69	56	79	82	72	25	64	65	70
2023-24	28	C	BUF	63	41	83	81	66	77	97	78	43	79	95	64	25	67	69	73
2024-25	29	C	BUF	71	42	86	81	66	77	96	89	42	83	90	62	25	69	72	74
2025-26	30	C	BUF	77	43	83	87	69	77	98	80	37	80	76	61	25	69	73	72
2026-27	31	C/L	BUF	73	43	87	79	69	76	94	83	40	79	83	68	25	71	76	73

Season	Age	Pos	Team	CK	FG	DI	SK	ST	EN	DU	PH	FO	PA	SC	DF	PS	EX	LD	OV
2019-20	24	C	LAK	73	68	86	64	68	80	83	70	80	68	67	68	64	54	54	65
2020-21	25	C	BUF	−6	−26	+8	·	·	−26	−2	−9	−40	−10	+3	−7	−39	+5	+5	−4
2021-22	26	C	BUF	+4	+1	−15	+16	+1	+22	−6	+13	+3	+22	+19	+2	·	+2	+3	+9
2022-23	27	C	BUF	−4	−1	+3	+1	·	−3	+11	−5	+13	−1	−7	+9	·	+3	+3	·
2023-24	28	C	BUF	−4	−1	+1	·	−3	+4	+11	+9	−13	·	+13	−8	·	+3	+4	+3
2024-25	29	C	BUF	+8	+1	+3	·	·	·	−1	+11	−1	+4	−5	−2	·	+2	+3	+1
2025-26	30	C	BUF	+6	+1	−3	+6	+3	·	+2	−9	−5	−3	−14	−1	·	·	+1	−2
2026-27	31	C/L	BUF	−4	·	+4	−8	·	−1	−4	+3	+3	−1	+7	+7	·	+2	+3	+1

Starting	Team	Salary	Length	Cap %	Age	Signed as
2019-20	LAK	$894,167	3 yr	1.1%	24	ELC	Rookie
2022-23	BUF	$4,000,000	3 yr	4.8%	27	RFA
2025-26	BUF	$7,500,000	6 yr	7.9%	30	UFA	CURRENT

2020-21

Feb 26 2021

2020-21

to SABRES

Carter Verhaeghe 61

to KINGS

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