Bold prediction thread for 19-20 season

[Snippit]

I promise I will bump this after the season is over.

I’ll start:

Positive:
Olofsson pots 25+25 (50 points) and becomes a staple on PP1

Negative:
Skinner pots less than 30.

Your turn.

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[Aladyyn]

Reinhart leads the team in scoring

Ristolainen plays 23 minutes a game and sucks

 

[OkimLom]

- Somebody will have a double digit positive plus/minus for the season

- We will have less than 5 fights for the season

 

[Jim Bob]

Positive: Dahlin has a top 10 in Norris voting season

Negative: The team is picking in the top 10 of the draft. Again.

 

[TehDoak]

Positive: Eichel, Reinhart both have career years. Dahlin puts up 50+ points
Negative: Everyone else sucks.

 

[Team Cozens]

Positive:
Sabres make the playoffs.
Eichel is Top 10 in scoring.
Mittelstadt gets 50+ points.
We trade for a Top 6 at the deadline.
Okposo does not finish the season as a Sabres

Negatives:
Sabres don’t win every game.

 

[Gabrielor]

The Sabres will make another 2 trades before the season starts, and one will include a 2C.
Dahlin will indeed receive Norris votes.
Eichel will lead the team in goals scored.
Olofsson will start slow, but have a very strong 2nd half.

The Sabres will have a middle-of-the-pack start, but come together around Decemeber-January, and win a wildcard berth to the playoffs.
The Sabres will upset their first round opponent, Toronto, before losing in the 2nd round, to Tampa Bay.

 

[DolanPlsGoSabres]

Positives:
The Sabres board will not have any strange rookie users that just spit hot takes!

Negatives:
The usual suspects will stay consistent with their agendas!

 

[jcbeze]

Reinhart leads the team in scoring

Ristolainen plays 23 minutes a game and sucks

So this is a league wide thread then?

 

[Aladyyn]

So this is a league wide thread then?

On this team. That's the bold part.

 

[sufferer]

I honestly don't expect anything regarding this team that would be considered "bold". Maybe Eichel only has a marginal increase, if any, in points (I've seen some people pegging him for 90+) but cleans up his two-way game considerably. He made some noticeable strides this past season in his overall effort level and in his checking detail but still had awful games.

 

[Ygo]

eRod puts up 40 points (>30 5v5)

eRod outscores Mitts and Tage combined

 

[Fezzy126]

Colin Miller has a Pysyk-like experience here; he puts up some nice analytics in a limited role, but is also a healthy scratch multiple times, and becomes the most divisive player among the fanbase by the end of the year.

Not so bold prediction - this board starts complaining about Krueger's coaching decisions in the preseason

 

[Chainshot]

Bold?

Positive: People have measured, reasonable assumptions about the team and individual scoring totals. (You said make a bold prediction... that's about as bold as I can make it.)

 

[Sabreality]

ERod-Larsson-Vesey is the surprise hit line of the season as Kruegers simple system brings out the best in all 3.

 

[MayDayMayDay]

Eichs & Dahlin explode this year. Conference finals.

 

[slip]

Ralph Kreuger makes Phil Housley look like Barry Trotz.

 

[enthusiast]

+ playoffs

 

[sufferer]

Ralph Kreuger makes Phil Housley look like Barry Trotz.

Byfield, come on down!!!

 

[GameMisconduct]

I can finally watch games without having my blood pressure constantly raised by an idiot coach.

 

[MackAttack26]

- Eichel scores 100 points; top-10 in scoring

- We keep Risto. He scores under 25 points in a reduced role and we sell him for scraps next off-season.

- Ullmark plays 50+ games posting a 920%+ save percentage.

 

[Buffaloed]

We're winning the Cup. Everything else is just filler.

 

[brian_griffin]

eRod puts up 40 points (>30 5v5)

eRod outscores Mitts and Tage combined

Bold Sabres board: An infrequent poster with less than 1 post a month in 4 years can still remember his/her password. Respect. (See above)

Bold positive: Krueger’s d-zone scheme enables a +40 goal differential improvement from last year.

Bold negative: injuries decimate BUF and Botts fails to act, causing BUF to fade from playoff contention after being a bubble team at St Pats day.

 

[HaNotsri]

Mittelstadt busts, Pilut never gets into rythm due to missing pre-season (he has been working out a lot based on comments from former team), Ristolainen becomes a top pairing d on another team, we complain about Olofssons lack of pp time all season.

Positives: Erod is 0.6 ppg (goes to UFA and signs with Boston), Dahlin scores 60, One of our crappy defensemen returns a 3rd round pick (steal!!!!)

 

[Chainshot]

When Ristolainen is traded, people will be happy. People will be angry. People will be people.