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NHL Faceoffs Lost Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2021-22All situationsThrough 82 team games
This board ranks every NHL skater by faceoffs lost, regular season only. Pick any season back to 2017-18 above the table.
Faceoffs lost counts every draw a player loses. Because volume drives it, busy centres lead this board as well as the faceoffs won board. A few leagues score FOL as a negative. It mostly measures how many draws a centre takes; read it next to faceoff percentage.
Leader for the Buffalo Sabres in 2021-22: Tage Thompson (BUF), 582 FOL.
Faceoffs Lost leaderboard
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| # | Player | Team | FOL | GP | Per game | FOW | FO% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tage ThompsonFBUF | BUF | 582 | 78 | 7.46 | 393 | 40.3% | 100%▲1.3 |
| 2 | Dylan CozensFBUF | BUF | 457 | 79 | 5.78 | 383 | 45.6% | 90%▲3.9 |
| 3 | Cody EakinFBUF | BUF | 378 | 69 | 5.48 | 482 | 56.0% | — |
| 4 | Casey MittelstadtFBUF | BUF | 250 | 40 | 6.25 | 202 | 44.7% | 14%▲12 |
| 5 | Zemgus GirgensonsFBUF | BUF | 144 | 56 | 2.57 | 143 | 49.8% | 3.2%▲3 |
| 6 | Jeff SkinnerFBUF | BUF | 133 | 80 | 1.66 | 91 | 40.6% | 0.1% |
| 7 | Peyton KrebsFBUF/VGK | BUF/VGK | 112 | 57 | 1.96 | 61 | 35.3% | 19%▲17 |
| 8 | Kyle OkposoFBUF | BUF | 93 | 74 | 1.26 | 92 | 49.7% | — |
| 9 | Mark JankowskiFBUF | BUF | 93 | 19 | 4.89 | 86 | 48.0% | 0.2% |
| 10 | Arttu RuotsalainenFBUF | BUF | 69 | 18 | 3.83 | 51 | 42.5% | — |
| 11 | Rasmus AsplundFBUF | BUF | 35 | 80 | 0.44 | 26 | 42.6% | — |
| 12 | Vinnie HinostrozaFBUF | BUF | 16 | 62 | 0.26 | 12 | 42.9% | 0.0% |
| 13 | Alex TuchFBUF | BUF | 14 | 50 | 0.28 | 9 | 39.1% | 94%▼5.5 |
| 14 | John HaydenFBUF | BUF | 7 | 55 | 0.13 | 2 | 22.2% | — |
| 15 | Anders BjorkFBUF | BUF | 4 | 58 | 0.07 | 1 | 20.0% | — |
| 16 | Drake CaggiulaFBUF | BUF | 3 | 18 | 0.17 | 1 | 25.0% | — |
| 17 | Victor OlofssonFBUF | BUF | 1 | 72 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.0% | 14%▲14 |
| 18 | Rasmus DahlinDBUF | BUF | 0 | 80 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 100%▲1 |
| 19 | Jacob BrysonDBUF | BUF | 0 | 73 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 0.0% |
| 20 | Mark PysykDBUF | BUF | 0 | 68 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 21 | Robert HaggDBUF/FLA | BUF/FLA | 0 | 64 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 22 | Henri JokiharjuDBUF | BUF | 0 | 60 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 0.1% |
| 23 | Mattias SamuelssonDBUF | BUF | 0 | 42 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 79%▲9.3 |
| 24 | Colin MillerDBUF | BUF | 0 | 38 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 0.0% |
| 25 | Will ButcherDBUF | BUF | 0 | 37 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 26 | Casey FitzgeraldDBUF | BUF | 0 | 36 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 27 | Brett MurrayFBUF | BUF | 0 | 19 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 28 | Christian WolaninDLAK/BUF | LAK/BUF | 0 | 9 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 29 | Owen PowerDBUF | BUF | 0 | 8 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 53%▲30 |
| 30 | Ethan ProwDBUF | BUF | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 31 | Jack QuinnFBUF | BUF | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 45%▲29 |
| 32 | JJ PeterkaFBUF | BUF | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0 | — | 75%▲37 |
| 33 | Ryan MacInnisFBUF | BUF | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
| 34 | Brandon BiroFBUF | BUF | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | — | — |
How to read it
Total faceoffs lost, all situations.
How reliable is it?
Mostly a volume stat: the centres who take the most draws lose the most.
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