WildCard

Might be the weirdest game I've ever watched.

A low 1st and low 2nd aren't equal lottery picks. If Thomas wasn't available, find another team. They were hell bent on trading him and got a terrible return.

Interesting. Sounds like he's getting 'benched'

3 lottery tickets? Johnson (pick) and Tage, who else? Tage wasn't close to their best prospect and we gave them a bonafide center. The stole that deal and won a Cup with it

Pretty much

The issue with the ROR trade always was we should have gotten a ton more at the time. Thompson wasn't even close to their best prospect and they didn't even want Sobotka or Berglund

I wasn't opposed to Meatballs, but I did want someone else. I was opposed to Adams. While the jury is still out on both we can definitely see what you're describing here, which is huge. And I will say this for Adams, it takes a good leader to surround themselves with good advisors and follow that advice. He seems to have done that in spades. I really look forward to our next couple drafts/off seasons and seeing where he goes from there.

How many gp?

Or Montreal

That chart has Florida less likely to win the Cup than Toronto...

Lehner is and will forever be my least favorite Sabre

What's SDS said. I think we lost 6 straight I'm February; I knew we were bad in that month. The talk around here has consistently been the Sabres since March

Yes, they do. They also care about playing well. You're dismissising the good teams we did beat and highlighting the good teams we didn't, that's not the full story.

Quick, throw Kane and O'Reilly on there and let's see it all unfold again

Just because they clinched doesn't mean they're not playing for seeding, or momentum. Toronto is trying, Carolina is trying. And outside of the East, Vegas is definitely trying too, same with Vancouver and Calgary.

Haven't we played a against a ton of playoff teams in that time span?

Exactly. Their goal is to make the NHL. They've earned that, and the NHL team is much, much better off with them. It doesn't help what we have brewing on the Sabres by removing those players for the Amerks; they don't want to play in the AHL, their teammates on the Sabres don't want them going down, and losing these last 4 so the Amerks can get bounced in the playoffs isn't helping the Sabres. Furthermore, what happens to Power? Show him we aim to win at the NHL level and that's what this team is about.

We just spent 5m straight on the attack lol

Engorged...

Right, and I'm not. Those are good points for sure, I'm just ball parking everything because yeah like you say, there's a lot of variables to consider and it's impossible to have a complete answer so for the sake of discussion just ball parking

Better offense means less time in our defensive end. Power will be up, a full year of good Dahlin and Samuelson. Need goaltending to improve but a tandem of UPL and a solid vet and I'm happy. My biggest unknown is Cozens/Mitts. Can they be reliably good 2/3 line centers.

I would be very happy if Quinn added 20 tbh. But Cozens should improve, so should Mitts and Oloffson. We'll have a full season of Tuch as well, and a full season of a good Dahlin. Though Thompson probably regresses our next gain is pretty hefty.

The East is stacked yup, but keep in mind those events are related; as the bottom of the East gets better the point total required to be in the playoffs is less. 6/10 of the bottom teams in the league are in the East, and 3/5 of the bottom five.

Ended up going 2-4, really should have been 3-3 but we blew some games. Not bad.

Title says it all. Figured it was buried in the GDT if anywhere so here's a spot for it.