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Sabres on 7-4 "run" in 2024 lose ground in playoff race
Thorner replied to Stoner's topic in The Aud Club
The last WC team is pacing for 94 right now tho Check that: 95 -
Sabres on 7-4 "run" in 2024 lose ground in playoff race
Thorner replied to Stoner's topic in The Aud Club
Currently slated to draft…..8th -
Sabres are one of the slowest playing teams in the league
Thorner replied to mjd1001's topic in The Aud Club
Got down the YouTube wormhole of fast rushes and stumbled across this. Jack I know but it’s such a fun RJ call. Miss him so much -
I would Yup I agree, gotta do it
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Today could be a pretty big game tbh I wouldn’t be shocked if they gave up hope with a loss today, having to sit on that bad math over the break. 6-5 month of January, that would be an 89 point pace committed over the course of the easiest stretch of our season. Why would a team that goes for an 89 point pace in that month, and 77 point pace overall, trend for the required 119 point pace going forward? At least if we put up a 7-4, that’s a 104 point pace for the month: at least it makes the 114 pace we’d need the rest of the way, while still incredibly daunting, at least within the realm of possibly if we squint really tightly at the numbers and imagine the up-trend to continue over the rest of the season
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Was running the math again today..even if we win the next 4 straight (thus giving us a 5 gamer when we haven’t even got to 3), we’d from that point need to play at a 109 point pace (something only 7 teams did last year) over the final 30 games. Perhaps you’re right that we’d be feeling so good after that we’d be willing to ignore the math: cause it’d still look daunting. So I dunno if it would APPEAR doable but maybe FEEL doable I’m still thinking about moneypuck’s 8.8%. That seems so high to me considering the ground we need to make up and the teams we need to leapfrog still have shot
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Playes on the roster you like more/less than the rest of the forum/fans
Thorner replied to mjd1001's topic in The Aud Club
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In January, Sabres had 11 games, 9 of which were against non-playoff teams. Easiest month by far, and we’ve played 10 of the 11 so far. We’ve gone 6-4. Likely needed better than 7-4 here considering the ground we need to make up, but it’s still been a good month with a dub. 6-5 would of course be a different story
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We’ll have to factor this into the timeline to competitiveness accordingly. This buys the GM a few more years imo
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@Hanklike shooting fish in a bucket
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I don’t have anything interesting to contribute but I will in fact bookmark this thread in preparation of the inevitable “who even was there?”
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Why not? All the kids are doing it It’s absolutely true though and you are right. Just because we can observe a series of poor choices since, doesn’t mean any of them necessarily needed to be made They were a playoff team in 2010. It’s not like the literal universe after that was like “oh, you lost your co-captains, this can’t continue.” Same thing with the tank: we’ve been free to the extent of having the ability to make choices that would get us in the playoffs several times over but the issue is that the decision to tank was a symptom. It’s not cause and effect. But because there’s a common denominator involved in the original decisions, it makes sense they’d make poor decisions moving forward.
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Sabres are one of the slowest playing teams in the league
Thorner replied to mjd1001's topic in The Aud Club
They’ve got their professional payouts, they need to learn to be professionals now. Give it time, have some patience: learning how to play hockey takes time. Once they learn the system, we’ll be good It’s only the 4th year of Adams’ tenure. It takes time -
Playes on the roster you like more/less than the rest of the forum/fans
Thorner replied to mjd1001's topic in The Aud Club
Tuch and Krebs Probably like Dahlin more than most -
Prediction Time: Will DG be fired during the season? If so, when?
Thorner replied to nfreeman's topic in The Aud Club
Already up to 8.8% today and we haven’t even dropped the puck! A win today may get us up above 10% or so -
Attempting to normalize the world-wide anomaly that is the (sports-relative) suffering of the Buffalo Sabres is just gaslighting. If any fans have a right to complain, it’s Sabres fans
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Prediction Time: Will DG be fired during the season? If so, when?
Thorner replied to nfreeman's topic in The Aud Club
I would have guessed the odds to be lower than 7.7. I was happy to see that number -
I was merely responding to this: Maybe I’m taking it too literally but my point is that coming within one point last year PROVES it’s reasonably possible for a GM to field a playoff team here. Otherwise, you’d be arguing that you are certain there’s nothing we could have theoretically, possibly have done differently last year to bridge that one point gap. And I know someone wouldn’t possible make an argument like that
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https://buffalonews.com/playoffs-is-the-expectation/article_8b0b754f-4af5-54a2-ae56-0e69a0250198.html “Next year, playoffs is the expectation. We all believe that we will be there, and we know what it takes now." Sure sounds like playoffs were the expectation. Unless there’s a massive disconnect. Disconnect between players and management? Mehhhhhhhhhh wouldn’t worry about it