2011/12 Individual Stats--December

If you thought watching the Sabres play this past month was painful, the stats might be even more painful.

Thomas Vanek and
Jason Pominville should sue
their teammates for
non-support this season.
(thanx to madcow for the photo)

Take out Thomas Vanek and Jason Pominville and you have the makings of a league bottom-feeder. The duo is tops on the Sabres not matter who's centering them and both are in the top-ten in a few different scoring categories.

After that the drop off is definitive as secondary scoring evaporated.

When we looked at the team yesterday, five-on-five play took a precipitous drop, looking at the individual plus/minus, no player was spared save for Marc-Andre Gragnani who was the only player in the plus column at plus-3. Zero and below for the rest of the team.

Goaltending didn't help. December saw Ryan Miller and Jhonas Enroth gift-wrap many a goal for the opposition and their year to date stats continue downward.

Add it all up and you have a team that went a paltry 4-7-3 for the month and find themselves in 11th place in the Eastern Conference. It's a similar situation to last season and nearly every season since 2007.

They begin the new year with the task of climbing up and into a playoff spot, and with the way they've looked lately--1-5-1 to end December, one goal scored in seven of the last 17 games--it's a monumental task for this club.


A look at how individual Sabres have done during the month of November.

Points:

• October--Thomas Vanek--15...Jason Pominville--14...Luke Adam--9
• November--Thomas Vanek, Jason Pominville, Derek Roy--12
• December--Pominville--13...Vanek--12...Stafford, Roy--1

Goals:

• October--Vanek--8...Pominville--5...Drew Stafford, Adam--3
• November--Adam, Roy--5...Vanek, Pominville, Jordan Leopold--4
• December--Vanek--6...Pominville--3...six with 2

PP Goals:

• October--Vanek--3...Pominville--2...Brad Boyes, Stafford--1
• November--Vanek--3...Roy--2...Pominville, Tyler Myers, Christian Ehrhoff, Marc-Andre Gragnani--1
• December--Vanek, Pominville--2...seven with 1

Assists:

• October--Pominville--9...Vanek--7...Ehrhoff, Adam--6
• November--Vanek, Pominville--8...Roy--7
• December--Pomiville--10, Vanek--6...Stafford, Roy, Leopold--5

PP Assists:

• October--Pominville--4...Vanek, Boyes--2
• November--Pominville--4...Vanek, Roy, Boyes, Ehrhoff, Gragnani--2
• December--Vanek, Stafford, Leopold--4

Primary Assists:

• October--Vanek--6...Pominville--5...Gerbe--4
• November--Pominville, Stafford--6...Vanek--5
• December--Pominville--7...Stafford--4...Vanek, Leopold--3

Plus/Minus:

• October--Andrej Sekera, +6...Nathan Gerbe, +5...Vanek,+4
• November--Leopold, Gragnani, +5...Hecht, +4
• December--Gragnani, +3...Stafford, even...five at -1

Plus/Minus (bottom):

• October--Ehrhoff, -6...Ville Leino, -4...Cody McCormick...-2
• November--Myers, Robyn Regehr, Mike Weber, -5
• December--Ehrhoff, -7...Sekera, Regehr, Pominville, -6

3-Stars (1st=5 points, 2nd=3 points, 3rd=1 point):

• October--Vanek--16...Pominville, Adam--10
• November--Roy--13...Adam--9...Pominville--8
• December--Pominville, Stafford--6...five with 5

Time On Ice/Game-Forwards (year-to-date)

Total:

• October--Pominville, 18:00...Vanek, 17:42...Roy, 16:54
• November--Pominville, 19:06...Roy...18:48...Vanek...17:42
• December--Pominville, 19:30...Roy, 19:13...Stafford...17:53...(Vanek 17:52) 

Even Strength:

• October--Vanek, 13:47...Gerbe, 13:33...Roy, 13:30
• November--Hecht, 14:32...Roy, 14:14...Leino, 14:13
• December--Hecht, 14:50...Roy, 14:23...Leino, 14:00

Powerplay:

• October--Vanek, 3:12...Pominville, 2:57...Adam, 2:16
• November--Pominville, 3:26...Vanek, 2:23...Roy, 2:41
• December--Pominville, 3:36...Vanek, 3:33...Roy, 2:55 

Penalty Kill:

• October--Paul Gaustad, 2:56...Patrick Kaleta, 2:40...Pominville, 2:13
• November--Gaustad, 2:49...Kaleta, 2:41...Pominville, 2:26
• December--Gaustad, 2:54...Kaleta, 2:56...Pominville, 2:33

Time On Ice/Game--Defensman (year-to-date)

Total:

• October--Ehrhoff, 24:32...Myers, 21:28...Jordan Leopold, 21:06
• November--Ehrhoff, 24:04...Myers, 21:39...Leopold, 20:48
• December--Ehrhoff, 23:35...Myers, 21:39...Leopold, 21:29 

Even Strength:

• October--Ehrhoff, 19:21...Leopold, 17:12...Myers, 16:21
• November--Ehrhoff, 19:06...Leopold, 16:57...Sekera, 16:39
• December--Ehrhoff, 18:38...Leopold, 17:11...Myers, 16:14

Powerplay:

• October--Marc-Andre Gragnani, 3:03...Ehrhoff, 2:59...Myers, 1:57
• November--Ehrhoff, 2:56...Gragnani, 2:52...Myers, 2:43
• December--Ehrhoff, 3:14...Gragnani, 3:14...Myers, 2:43

Penalty Kill:

• October--Robyn Regehr, 3:12...Myers, 3:09...Ehrhoff, 2:12
• November--Regehr, 3:11...Weber, 2:50...Myers, 2:42
• December--Regehr, 3:11...Myers, Weber, 2:42...

Goaltending (year to date)

Ryan Miller:

• October--4 wins, 4 losses, .930 sv.% (ranked 9th,) 2.14 gaa (ranked 21st,) 1 shutout
• November--5-6-0, .909 (37th,) 2.86 (41st,) 1 shutout
• December--9-10-2, .901 (51st) 3.05 (55th) 1 shutout

Jhonas Enroth:

• October--2-0, .946 sv % (8th,) 2.00 gaa (13th,) 0 shutouts
• November--8-4-2, .926 (21st,) 2.27 (26th,) 1 shutout
• December--8-7-2, .921 (23rd) 2.49 (32nd) 1 shutout

Drew MacIntyre

• October--
• November--0-0-0, .944, 1.40, 0 shutouts
• December--0-0-0, .944, 1.40, 0 shutouts