Doohicksie Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Last October just before the season started, I came out with this nugget: Tage exceeded that prediction. This year I'm going to make three Bold Predictions. Feel free to do the same. At the end of the season we can see who was the best Bold Predictor. Tage scores 50 Anderson gets 20 wins as the backup JJ nets 25 goals 3 Quote
Taro T Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 No games canceled/ postponed. (Would go bolder & say that will be true leaguewide.) Mittelstadt gets at least 60 points & likely 65. 3 1 Quote
North Buffalo Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Anderson gets 20 wins as no 1, upl 10 wins and another 10 from various others... Sabres finish outbof playoffs again... KA fired at end of season. Quote
Buffalonill Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Jack quinn wins Rookie of the year and power places second in race 1 2 Quote
steveoath Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Just now, Buffalonill said: Jack quinn wins Rookie of the year and power places second in race Damn you, that's what I was going to say haha. 1 1 Quote
jsb Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Power will overpower the opposition and win the Calder Trophy Anderson's old creaky body won't hold up and he won't play 20 games this year I'll have more than 2 guys on my ignore list by mid January because we'll have too many rookies in the lineup and we'll be out of a playoff spot again for a new record of a dozen years. My hopium bottle is almost empty so so I'm going to tell GMKA to HurryTFU with this rebuild @nfreeman will break his personal record of "This post is Obnoxious" if #3 comes true. Olofsson won't earn his $5M+ contract and hopefully Mitts finally breaks out because he's on the last year of our patience with him. 2 Quote
Flashsabre Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Adams will trade for a starting goalie and half this board’s heads will explode not knowing what to complain about😛 2 6 1 Quote
DarthEbriate Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 39 minutes ago, North Buffalo said: Anderson gets 20 wins as no 1, upl 10 wins and another 10 from various others... Sabres finish outbof playoffs again... KA fired at end of season. Wait... you're saying that the Sabres win a minimum of 40 games (the most wins since 2011-12 when Lindy Ruff was coach 39-32-11) --- As an example, 40-37-5 for 85 points or 40-30-12 for 92 points... and the Pegulas axe their GM for it? 1 1 Quote
French Collection Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Sabres sign Holtby 2x$4M. Dahlin gets 70 points and is in the Norris conversation. JJP and Quinn combine for 40 goals. Thompson scores 40 goals. Cozens and Krebs take a big step forward. Sabres make the playoffs. 2 2 Quote
MattPie Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Pessimist-mode: - Tage scores no more than 25. - UPL looks terrible at every turn, and the Sabres' goalie purgatory continues - Despite this, the Sabres finish with more points than this season, but out of the playoffs Quote
DarthEbriate Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 11 minutes ago, North Buffalo said: No goalie so yes So the Sabres sign MAF to a big 2-year deal and he blows out his ACL in game 11 with a 4-6 record. UPL gets the callup from ROC to take the reins and goes a respectable 10-14 over the next two months until he too is injured for the year. Anderson is a .901 sv% goalie who's getting by on savvy and goes 20-22. Meanwhile, the kids look good and score in the middle of the pack league for Goals For. The D-corps looks amazing. They're tenacious and fun to watch. And then... it happens. Northeastern and Michigan both fall in the opening round of the Frozen Four tourney to 3-1 (empty netter) and 1-0 scores where the opposing goalie stands on his head. Portillo signs and will finish his business degree in the summer. Levi signs as expected. Both rookies go 3-0 with a shutout down the stretch while alternating starts with Anderson as the backup to guide them. Final record 40-30-12 for 92 points and the kids have taken over the pipes to finish the season 6-0 with 2 shutouts over BOS (in Boston) and TOR (at home) and a combined score of 31-7. You wouldn't take that? 3 1 1 Quote
mjd1001 Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 33 minutes ago, French Collection said: Dahlin gets 70 points and is in the Norris conversation. I'm not sure about 70 points, but I'll 2nd him getting in the Norris conversation. It is hard to get nominated, as only 3 among Hedman, Josi, Makar, Ekblad, Hughes, Fox and others (would have to beat out all but 2 of them to get nominated)...but I DO think he is going to get noticed and talked about as one of the 'top D-men' in the NHL league-wide. 2 Quote
Norcal Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Cozens and Mittlestadt will have 60 points each 5 Quote
Porous Five Hole Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Jack Campbell is a Vezina finalist in a Sabres uniform. 1 1 Quote
Zamboni Posted June 30, 2022 Report Posted June 30, 2022 Hot takes or Bold predictions. Fine line here … Quote
LHSN1965 Posted July 1, 2022 Report Posted July 1, 2022 Dahlin gets 65 points and is in the Norris conversation. Cause Buffalo is a crap. Quote
Digger Posted July 1, 2022 Report Posted July 1, 2022 The line of Krebs, Cozens, Quinn show great chemistry playing together and combine for 50 goals. 1 Quote
JoeSchmoe Posted July 1, 2022 Report Posted July 1, 2022 1 minute ago, Digger said: The line of Krebs, Cozens, Quinn show great chemistry playing together and combine for 50 goals. Come on... Get in the spirit of the BOLD predictions. Make it 60-70 and we're talking. 1 Quote
Zamboni Posted July 1, 2022 Report Posted July 1, 2022 Every full time roster player including the two goalies will get 1 point or more this season. 1 Quote
Eric in Akron Posted July 1, 2022 Report Posted July 1, 2022 Sabres make the playoffs as the 6th seed. Nothing more bolder than that. 1 Quote
JoeSchmoe Posted July 1, 2022 Report Posted July 1, 2022 All these predictions are based on a player playing 90%+ games: Tage 45g Skinner 35g Oloffson 40g Tuch 70pt Cozens 55pt Mitts 55pt Okie 50pt Quinn 25g JJ 40pt Krebs 35pt Dahlin 70pt Power 50pt Samuelson Top Pairing Shutdown Despite breakout years for all of the above, Sabres still miss playoffs because Adams fails to find replacement level goaltending. 1 Quote
Digger Posted July 1, 2022 Report Posted July 1, 2022 20 minutes ago, JoeSchmoe said: Come on... Get in the spirit of the BOLD predictions. Make it 60-70 and we're talking. Okay but it would still be a great result and big step forward to have those 3 reach 50 NHL goals as a trio considering their total last year was 51 goals (NHL + AHL regular season stats). Cozens had 13 last season (NHL), Krebs had 11 (combined NHL & AHL), Quinn had 27 (combined NHL & AHL) I agree 60 would be an even better, bolder wish. 1 Quote
PromoTheRobot Posted July 1, 2022 Report Posted July 1, 2022 7 hours ago, North Buffalo said: Anderson gets 20 wins as no 1, upl 10 wins and another 10 from various others... Sabres finish outbof playoffs again... KA fired at end of season. Whoa, temper your expectations. Quote
LHSN1965 Posted July 1, 2022 Report Posted July 1, 2022 My predictions: Tage 30g Skinner 35g Oloffson 35g Tuch 65pt Cozens 45pt Mitts 25pt Quinn 10g Krebs 25pt Dahlin 65pt Power 45pt Quote
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