It’s interesting that more people think they will fall out then stay in.
I guess staying in a playoff spot in arguably the toughest division in hockey for over two months doesent get you much respect. We had a stretch where the team was 18-5-4 in 27 games.
There only a few pts behind Toronto, maybe a lot of their fans are Hoping so they voted no as in “I hope not.”
The only way buffalo falls out at this point assuming Tampa Toronto and Boston are all locks. Let’s also assume the jackets caps and pens do too.
So there’s two spots left and the islanders canadiens and sabres (as of now) fight for them.
That means you’re saying (the people who voted no) that BOTH these teams are going to finish higher then buffalo?
One team doesent have a number one center and Cary prices save percentage is once again low (if he’s even healthy) domi hasn’t scored in 13 games and the other team is backstopped by robin lehner. I mean, they got a great coach and good scoring and d, and buffalo has some holes for sure too.
But I could see one maybe ahead of buffalo, but both? Nah.
Before the year I would figure Florida to be ahead of buffalo but how someone like them or Carolina would have to win ten out of twelve and then have a couple other 6 out 8 streaks with help on the outside to make it.
But hey, maybe the islanders and canadiens do finish higher then buffalo, anything can happen, they both have better parts to their teams then the Sabres in areas. We shall see, I didn’t like our chances before the year and a lot of people have fallen off believing but when you look at it all they have to do is finish better then one of those two as of now with how things are and I think yes, they can do that.
Nope they're fraudulent and won a ton of close games during a big win streak.
Bad underlying numbers, no depth after top line, not much depth on the blue line.
Don't see it.
It goes both ways with winning close games, after the ten game winning streak they lost four of the next five all by one goal to the four best teams in the league, and have lost a lot in overtime or shootouts.
By the way winning by one is not at all a sign of weakness, it means your clutch and many playoff teams, even cup winners and finalists in years past have had the highest percentage of one goal victories.
They need scoring depth, I’m not pretending they’re perfect but that’s not the question.
Its ridiculous to suggest their fraudulent, no one stays in a playoff spot for over two months by “mistake.”
Seems there’s some kind of hatred/insecurity or both in your statements.
I find many leaf fans want buffalo to stay at the bottom for a long time because they got bugged by some sabres fans I guess and want it in return, they’re terrified at the prospect of buffalo getting good. But with Eichel and dahlin to build around, you bet that’s exactly what’s going to happen sooner or later.
Infact you know what terrifies some leaf fans the most? The prospect of us winning a playoff series before they do. Oh boy...the madness that would come. I’m sure there will be a way certain leaf fans (and when I say leaf fans I don’t mean all I just mean some) would find ways to justify it happening, like the refs won it for us or Matthews wasn’t getting a bunch of ice time, or something silly.
Not with Glass Eichel as their captain.
Glass Eichel, lol.
He’s sprained his ankles twice both of which were freak occurrences (you’re not made of glass that way) and this time it’s a upper body injury the first day to day injury he’s had in his entire playing career going back to junior.
3 injuries one of the three minor in his last 7 seasons.
Is it auston glass Matthews too? Because he’s had more injuries especially of the day to day variety.
and yeah, eichels such a bad captain, he was only the top scoring American, highest scoring center in the entire eastern conference before doing down, only kucherov had more points in the entire east.
Before going down he was first in shots, and in the top few in scoring chances, high quality scoring chances, transition zone rushes (zone entries), offensive one possession, 4th in assists, 4th in even strength points, 6th in scoring league wide and captain of a team that’s what four Pts behind Toronto and averaging 1.30 PPG, has 170 Pts in his Last 164 games all while never having had a linemate to ever hit 60 pts. All at 22 years old on awful teams, with little offensive help up against the best competition on a nightly basis. What. A. Bum.
After a very quick search.........
OneBuffalo:
- "Buffalo > Toronto. Look at the standings"
- "Sabres are more successful so far this year than Toronto. Buffalo > Toronto"
BFLO:
"The cheese stands alone. 1st place in the NHL The Buffalo Sabres"
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I'm sure there are more, but I don't feel like searching through a zillion posts.
Hey I’m still waiting for skinner to stop scoring, (29 goals) and eichels PPG (1.30) to fall down, like you said it would every week for the last two and a half months? When’s it going to happen?
