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NHL Shifts Leaders: Buffalo Sabres
2025-26All situationsThrough 82 team games
This board ranks every NHL skater by shifts, regular season only. Pick any season back to 2025-26 above the table.
Shifts count every time a player steps onto the ice, from the NHL's shift charts. Defensemen take the most; top pairs approach 30 a night. A few leagues score shifts. More shifts means more ice time, so the board mirrors the time-on-ice leaders with defensemen on top.
Leader for the Buffalo Sabres in 2025-26: Bowen Byram (BUF), 2,122 SFT.
- Shift counts start in 2025-26 and are incomplete: 65 regular-season games of 2025-26 and all of its playoff games have no shift data, so totals for those games are missing.
Shifts leaderboard
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| # | Player | Team | SFT | GP | Per game | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bowen ByramDBUF | BUF | 2,122 | 82 | 25.9 | 96%▲6.5 |
| 2 | Rasmus DahlinDBUF | BUF | 2,054 | 77 | 26.7 | 100%▲1 |
| 3 | Owen PowerDBUF | BUF | 2,053 | 81 | 25.3 | 53%▲30 |
| 4 | Mattias SamuelssonDBUF | BUF | 2,013 | 78 | 25.8 | 79%▲9.3 |
| 5 | Alex TuchFBUF | BUF | 1,932 | 79 | 24.5 | 94%▼5.5 |
| 6 | Ryan McLeodFBUF | BUF | 1,910 | 81 | 23.6 | 26%▲20 |
| 7 | Tage ThompsonFBUF | BUF | 1,804 | 81 | 22.3 | 100%▲1.3 |
| 8 | Josh DoanFBUF | BUF | 1,650 | 82 | 20.1 | 61%▲44 |
| 9 | Jack QuinnFBUF | BUF | 1,607 | 82 | 19.6 | 45%▲29 |
| 10 | Peyton KrebsFBUF | BUF | 1,504 | 82 | 18.3 | 19%▲17 |
| 11 | Logan StanleyDWPG/BUF | WPG/BUF | 1,477 | 76 | 19.4 | 6.6%▲5.9 |
| 12 | Zach BensonFBUF | BUF | 1,292 | 65 | 19.9 | 56%▲44 |
| 13 | Beck MalenstynFBUF | BUF | 1,289 | 81 | 15.9 | 4.1%▲3.7 |
| 14 | Jason ZuckerFBUF | BUF | 1,131 | 62 | 18.2 | 23%▲17 |
| 15 | Noah OstlundFBUF | BUF | 1,115 | 60 | 18.6 | 25%▲24 |
| 16 | Sam CarrickFNYR/BUF | NYR/BUF | 1,082 | 73 | 14.8 | 0.1% |
| 17 | Josh NorrisFBUF | BUF | 928 | 44 | 21.1 | 39%▲32 |
| 18 | Conor TimminsDBUF | BUF | 890 | 39 | 22.8 | 3.2%▲3.1 |
| 19 | Luke SchennDWPG/BUF | WPG/BUF | 875 | 50 | 17.5 | 7.3%▲6.9 |
| 20 | Tanner PearsonFWPG/BUF | WPG/BUF | 851 | 56 | 15.2 | 0.0% |
| 21 | Tyson KozakFBUF | BUF | 784 | 46 | 17.0 | 3.2%▲3.2 |
| 22 | Jacob BrysonDBUF/WPG | BUF/WPG | 769 | 50 | 15.4 | 0.0% |
| 23 | Jordan GreenwayFBUF | BUF | 714 | 40 | 17.9 | 0.3% |
| 24 | Zach MetsaDBUF | BUF | 596 | 43 | 13.9 | 0.1% |
| 25 | Isak RosenFWPG/BUF | WPG/BUF | 591 | 37 | 16.0 | 14%▲14 |
| 26 | Michael KesselringDBUF | BUF | 588 | 34 | 17.3 | 8.9%▲8.3 |
| 27 | Josh DunneFBUF | BUF | 420 | 34 | 12.4 | 0.0% |
| 28 | Jiri KulichFBUF | BUF | 197 | 12 | 16.4 | 26%▲25 |
| 29 | Konsta HeleniusFBUF | BUF | 134 | 9 | 14.9 | 40%▲37 |
| 30 | Justin DanforthFBUF | BUF | 71 | 4 | 17.8 | 0.0% |
| 31 | Mason GeertsenFBUF | BUF | 34 | 5 | 6.8 | 0.0% |
| 32 | Ryan JohnsonDBUF | BUF | 34 | 3 | 11.3 | 0.0% |
| 33 | Trevor KuntarFBUF | BUF | 8 | 1 | 8.0 | 0.0% |
How to read it
Shifts taken, from the shift charts (2025-26 onward).
How reliable is it?
Shifts follow ice time and position; the 2025-26 totals miss the games without shift charts.
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