Tage Thompson

Thompson is at his best beside Power: 55.3% of the expected goals together against 47.5% apart.

Benson is a different player beside him: 54.7% of the expected goals with Thompson, 48.5% without him.

The pairing that generates most is Thompson and Benson: 5.51 expected goals an hour.

With Tuch on the ice too, the Sabres have outscored opponents 34 to 23 at 5v5.

On the power play his best partner is Zucker: 93.6% of the expected goals over 202 minutes.

His best five is with Dahlin, Krebs, Samuelsson and Tuch: 57.9% of the expected goals over 73 minutes.

The five the coach goes back to is Thompson with Dahlin, Krebs, Samuelsson and Tuch, 73 minutes at 5v5.

His power-play unit is Dahlin, Doan, Norris and Zucker: 10 goals in 57 minutes.

Rasmus Dahlin has assisted on 10 of his 41 goals, 24.4% of them.

He has helped on 8 of Josh Doan's goals, 19.5% of his own assists.

68.3% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

The Sabres are up 32 goals with Thompson on the ice.

Thompson's line owns 50.3% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

The Sabres score 51.8% of the 5v5 goals with Thompson out there.

The Sabres create 4.47 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Thompson on.

Thompson plays 19:14 a night, 46th among forwards.

He draws 3:34 of power play time a game, 22nd among forwards.

He puts 10.44 shots on goal an hour.

He scores 1.54 goals an hour of ice time.

Thompson produces 3.12 points an hour of ice time.

On the power play he produces 0.92 points an hour.

He sets up 1.58 assists an hour of ice time.

He has 1 short-handed points this season.

Thompson has 5 game winners this season.

He takes the puck back 1.08 times an hour.

He gives it away 2.66 times an hour.

Thompson has taken 561 shot attempts this season.

He fires 21.59 attempts an hour of ice time.

Thompson has scored 2 times on Spencer Knight this season, more than on any other goaltender.

His deadliest matchup is David Rittich: 22.2% of his attempts against him go in.

He has 4 goals against the Maple Leafs this season.

He wins 87.5% of his draws against Nathan MacKinnon.

Thompson has 41 goals off 26.3 expected: 14.7 more than the chances alone say.

From inside 25 feet he buries 11.3% of his attempts.

He converts 15.0% of the shots he puts on goal.