Sabrespace season predictions 2024-25

[DarthEbriate]

After the first period of the first game… 

Amend that: 77 points

There. Bets hedged. 

[Gatorman0519]

84 points. 

[Weave]

Trending downward….

[Billznut]

86 points 

NO playoffs for the 14th straight year 

[Noacls]

Ruff does not finish the season as coach. They will come up with something so he can walk away with out losing face. 

[LTS]

2 hours ago, Noacls said:

Ruff does not finish the season as coach. They will come up with something so he can walk away with out losing face. 

POHO?  Sr. Advisor?  Either way, it's all shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.

[Thorner]

We should remember we are, what, a two game win streak in the next 2 games from feeling the season is saved? 

Hold those horses just a little, sabrespace 

[Weave]

43 minutes ago, LTS said:

POHO?  Sr. Advisor?  Either way, it's all shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.

Retirement.  NFW he’s not retired if he doesn’t last the season as HC.

[#freejame]

42 minutes ago, Thorner said:

We should remember we are, what, a two game win streak in the next 2 games from feeling the season is saved? 

Hold those horses just a little, sabrespace 

Ehhhh I don’t think getting back to .500 will instill confidence. Need to get 3-5 games above .500 for me to deem the start of the year a fluke. All this org talks about was being prepared to play. They’ve utterly failed that twice now. 

[Thorner]

18 minutes ago, #freejame said:

Ehhhh I don’t think getting back to .500 will instill confidence. Need to get 3-5 games above .500 for me to deem the start of the year a fluke. All this org talks about was being prepared to play. They’ve utterly failed that twice now. 

Maybe not for you, but this place 180’d their projections of playoffs based on 1 game. People somehow had the confidence to predict playoffs, a bold prediction given available data, yet whatever metrics they used that gave them the confidence to make such a prediction seemingly evaporated based on 1 solitary game, or two.

I would frankly be shocked if 2 straight wins here didn’t do the exact opposite. People go from one extreme to the other, why would we expect different? Half the reason the losses get so low is because people are convincing themselves we are cup bound after pre season wins. 

99.9% of the “if only THIS had gone better” analysis we do is shell-game frivolity. You are ALWAYS what your record says. You don’t get a more accurate, predictive mathematical result by shrinking the data you are parsing. The most likely result BY FAR this season is that the Sabres will win a lot of games, and they will lose a lot, people will yo-yo between “we back” and “we suck” for 6 months, when in reality merely looking at the standings at the end would provide one with a more accurate analysis than everything else put together 

Edited October 7 by Thorner

[Pimlach]

I hate to give up my prediction that they make the playoffs this year and that Ruff fixes a lot of problems.  Its only two games. 

So I will die on the Hockey Battlefield and predict 95 points and a playoff berth. 

 

Edited October 7 by Pimlach

[ska-T Chitown]

I think it is safe to say that this year's NJ team will be far more like the one from two years ago and while it puts us in a really difficult spot to lose the first two games like that - not being able to hang with the NJ of two years ago does not really factor into our ability to make the playoffs. We take care of the easily winnable games (a hallmark of the past 13 years is getting blown out by fellow bottom feeders), win half of the toss-up games, and steal game or two from the top guys ... boom. playoffs.

[#freejame]

28 minutes ago, Thorner said:

Maybe not for you, but this place 180’d their projections of playoffs based on 1 game. People somehow had the confidence to predict playoffs, a bold prediction given available data, yet whatever metrics they used that gave them the confidence to make such a prediction seemingly evaporated based on 1 solitary game, or two.

I would frankly be shocked if 2 straight wins here didn’t do the exact opposite. People go from one extreme to the other, why would we expect different? Half the reason the losses get so low is because people are convincing themselves we are cup bound after pre season wins. 

99.9% of the “if only THIS had gone better” analysis we do is shell-game frivolity. You are ALWAYS what your record says. You don’t get a more accurate, predictive mathematical result by shrinking the data you are parsing. The most likely result BY FAR this season is that the Sabres will win a lot of games, and they will lose a lot, people will yo-yo between “we back” and “we suck” for 6 months, when in reality merely looking at the standings at the end would provide one with a more accurate analysis than everything else put together 

Well, stay tuned for the poll after game ten to see how things have changed. And I don’t think most fans thought we were going to make the playoffs. I think most fans wanted to believe that we will. They’ve just quickly lost that belief. 

 

[Thorner]

1 minute ago, #freejame said:

Well, stay tuned for the poll after game ten to see how things have changed. And I don’t think most fans thought we were going to make the playoffs. I think most fans wanted to believe that we will. They’ve just quickly lost that belief. 

 

That’s fair. Willful prisoners of the moment.

as for the bold: same bat time..

 

[ska-T Chitown]

5 hours ago, Thorner said:

That’s fair. Willful prisoners of the moment.

as for the bold: same bat time..

 

First, thank you for changing back to the blue hockey guy as your avatar - out of the corner of my eye I thought the other one was that walrus guy at least half the time.

I agree with @#freejame about hoping vs really thinking, but I have not lost my optimism. It is the only thing that will get me through these oddly warm fall evenings!

[Thorner]

15 minutes ago, ska-T Chitown said:

First, thank you for changing back to the blue hockey guy as your avatar - out of the corner of my eye I thought the other one was that walrus guy at least half the time.

I agree with @#freejame about hoping vs really thinking, but I have not lost my optimism. It is the only thing that will get me through these oddly warm fall evenings!

Walrus guy? lol

Edited October 8 by Thorner

[ska-T Chitown]

4 minutes ago, Thorner said:

Walrus guy? lol

@bob_sauve28 - it was more just the gray tones vs the actual look. I skim the avatars for the posters I like to read and not seeing your trademark blue hockey guys was throwing me off!

I would be like "wow, bob sounds a lot like ... d'oh! it IS Thorner!"

[Thorner]

2 minutes ago, ska-T Chitown said:

@bob_sauve28 - it was more just the gray tones vs the actual look. I skim the avatars for the posters I like to read and not seeing your trademark blue hockey guys was throwing me off!

I would be like "wow, bob sounds a lot like ... d'oh! it IS Thorner!"

Right right that makes sense 

[LTS]

19 hours ago, Weave said:

Retirement.  NFW he’s not retired if he doesn’t last the season as HC.

Well.. Sr. Advisor is like being retired but he gets paid. Could be a consultant type position.  We just want your opinion from time to time, here's your retainer.