Prediction time! How will this all come crashing down?

[SDS]

Wide Right, No goal, Homerun Throwback, Staph infections... :wallbash:

 

Let's face facts Buffalo Fan, this great start only means the end will be that much more horrible for us.

 

Does AQ take over a Columbus Hotel, capture the entire team, and turn them into heroin addicts during the hostage stages?

 

Does a bad Eeaster ham outbreak give half the team e coli?

 

Maybe the Gretzky gambling scandel reappears, indicts the whole league, and Congress Shuts down the NHL in April?

 

What do you say? How will we be gutted like fish this season? :death:

[fushetti]

SDS, I expect this type of thread out of PASabrefan....not you. Shame on you.

[ReneRobert]

Wide Right, No goal, Homerun Throwback, Staph infections... :wallbash:

 

Let's face facts Buffalo Fan, this great start only means the end will be that much more horrible for us.

 

Does AQ take over a Columbus Hotel, capture the entire team, and turn them into heroin addicts during the hostage stages?

 

Does a bad Eeaster ham outbreak give half the team e coli?

 

Maybe the Gretzky gambling scandel reappears, indicts the whole league, and Congress Shuts down the NHL in April?

 

What do you say? How will we be gutted like fish this season? :death:

 

 

Oh, I think we will struggle against St. Louis in the first round, winning two games in OT, then lose to the Islanders in Six... :bag:

[SDS]

SDS, I expect this type of thread out of PASabrefan....not you. Shame on you.

 

c'mon, you can do better than that!

 

How about the nation's power grid goes out for an extended period of time and the NHL cancels the season?

[Stoner]

SDS, great topic. This is right up my alley. Speaking of that, thanks for last night, fushetti. You are amazing.

 

I'm envisioning something with the arena. Mold spores are coming to mind. We still might win the Cup, but we'll have to do it playing on the road for the entire playoffs.

 

That, or lupus. Is it lupus?

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Tallinder starts a herpes outbreak in the lockerroom after being caught in another gang-bang.

[SDS]

Tallinder starts a herpes outbreak in the lockerroom after being caught in another gang-bang.

 

and it is game 7 in OT... The other team has a breakaway on Miller, but just before the shot Miller can't take the itching any more and flings off his glove to provide himself with some relief. Shot goes top shelf and we lose....

 

Well done!

[Tony P]

It all ends in 2007, on a sunny June afternoon, on the steps of the newly refurbished Buffalo City Hall with the Stanley Cup held high by Mr. Golisano in front of 100,000 screaming fans.

 

No crash and burn this time.

 

:beer: :beer: :beer:

[Quickdraw]

It all ends in 2007, on a sunny June afternoon, on the steps of the newly refurbished Buffalo City Hall with the Stanley Cup held high by Mr. Golisano in front of 100,000 screaming fans.

 

No crash and burn this time.

 

:beer: :beer: :beer:

 

Best. Post. Ever.

[MajorMinotaur]

fucillo really does get huge and crushes our four best defenseman

[BetweenThePipes00]

thanks for last night, fushetti. You are amazing.

 

:blink: :ph34r: :sick:

[nfreeman]

We're playing the Ducks in the finals. We roar out of the gate determined to smash this GD glass ceiling once and for all and take a 3-1 series lead. Game 5 in HSBC, with everyone incredibly fired up to see the cup skated around in triumph, sees an amazing goaltending duel that takes a 2-2 game into double OT, cruelly ending when a puck deflects off soupy's skate behind Miller.

 

Then the injuries reappear. Lindy announces after the game that Tallinder broke his other arm. Kalinin hurts his ankle and can't skate. Teppo's groin flares up. Hecht breaks his collarbone. Drury blocks a Pronger blast from the point and fractures his shinbone. Max catches an ear infection from his 18-month-old nephew that shatters his eardrum on the flight back to SJ for game 6. The plane has to make an emergency landing in Detroit, where Russian mobsters meet up with Max to settle up old accounts.

 

The guys play gamely but the short-notice replacements are overwhelmed. Miller lets in a softie and we lose game 6, 4-3. Here comes game 7 in HSBC, and not a soul in WNY doesn't know in the pit of his/her stomach that heartbreak looms, right in front of us on our ice again.

 

That afternoon, in a quiet, tense locker room, Marty, probably coming to an end of a full decade with this organ-eye-zation, decides he's seen enough. He stands up and booms:

 

"What's all this layin' around #%^$#!?

 

"Was it over when when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

 

"Hell no! And it ain't over now!!

 

"Pronger? He's a dead man!

 

"Giguere? Dead!

 

"NEEEEEEEDERRRMAAAYYYYERRRR? DEAD!!!!

 

Miller pitches a shutout. Vanek scores 2, Connolly sets up Briere for 2 more, Gaustad muscles one in and we win 5-0.

 

And they all lived happily ever after.

[X. Benedict]

Teppo has a religious experience and he Goose and Soupy join an ashram in Madras in February,

followed by Lindy's announcement that there are more important things than hockey and starts a

folk band and medicine show with Ryan Miller, and Marty leaves the team to auction cattle in the lucrative SW Texas cattle markets.

 

Tim Connolley's 35 goal February still isn't enough to see the Sabres to the playoffs.

[shrader]

I'm picturing a Slap Shot type scenario. Instead of dressing all those goons, our opponent in the finals will put Frank Wycheck, Brett Hull, a giant cloud of staph bacteria, Norwood's right foot, and Jimmy Johnson's hair out there with Bernie Parent in net. The game never ends though because Andrew Peters' stiptease leads the simultaneous death of everyone in the building.

[SCSabresFan!]

Teppo has a religious experience and he Goose and Soupy join an ashram in Madras in February,

followed by Lindy's announcement that there are more important things than hockey and starts a

folk band and medicine show with Ryan Miller, and Marty leaves the team to auction cattle in the lucrative SW Texas cattle markets.

 

Tim Connolley's 35 goal February still isn't enough to see the Sabres to the playoffs.

 

 

You certainly started on the Irish Coffee this morning.

[X. Benedict]

You certainly started on the Irish Coffee this morning.

Tim Horton's and Jameson's with real whipped cream.

[GGM]

C'mon, you fools...They'll all be drafted to fight in the second Iranian War (the first one will start and end in January). Of course the "regular" armed forces will be busy in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Korea, while us normal shlubs will be drafted to invade Australia for their tree-hugging support of environmentalism.

 

After all, we've only got two years left to get all this stuff done!

 

Disclaimer: Not trying to make this thread political, as I'm a registered Republican and pretty much will agree with ANY criticism of politicians.

[BetweenThePipes00]

C'mon, you fools...They'll all be drafted to fight in the second Iranian War (the first one will start and end in January). Of course the "regular" armed forces will be busy in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Korea, while us normal shlubs will be drafted to invade Australia for their tree-hugging support of environmentalism.

 

After all, we've only got two years left to get all this stuff done!

 

Disclaimer: Not trying to make this thread political, as I'm a registered Republican and pretty much will agree with ANY criticism of politicians.

 

Well at least the Canadian guys on the team can keep playing, we know they would never get drafted ... maybe we can raid the French Olympic team too ...

[shrader]

Well at least the Canadian guys on the team can keep playing, we know they would never get drafted ... maybe we can raid the French Olympic team too ...

 

I'm more worried about the German and the Austrian.

[apuszczalowski]

C'mon, you fools...They'll all be drafted to fight in the second Iranian War (the first one will start and end in January). Of course the "regular" armed forces will be busy in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Korea, while us normal shlubs will be drafted to invade Australia for their tree-hugging support of environmentalism.

 

After all, we've only got two years left to get all this stuff done!

 

Disclaimer: Not trying to make this thread political, as I'm a registered Republican and pretty much will agree with ANY criticism of politicians.

Then to make matters worse, only Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary, and Vancouver are remaining since their Canadian and Can't be drafted by the US. The Leafs quickly make some deals to bring over some of the leagues superstars about to get drafted looking to flee to Canada and win the cup. No asteriks gets put next to their name with the cup. Sabres fans decide its much better to go to war then watch the Leafs with the cup and their fans celebrating and gloating like it actually means something, only proving they can only win a cup in a league with 6 teams

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

It's Game 7 of the Cup finals. The whole team gets food poisoning after going to lunch at Taco Bell with Takeo Spikes.

[eball]

Nobody gets a flu shot.

[Done]

The refs slowly stop calling as many obstruction and hitting penalties and our team eventually gets exposed as undersized and injury prone. Ryan Miller lets in a few uncharacteristic goals and he gets nervous, remembering "Old Ryan" who was not so in touch with himself and the world. This creaping in of fear will cause our agressive style of play to regress into a 2001 Lindy Ruff version, and Lindy being a very successful "statement" coach, will show his faith in Miller and keep him in there. We will eventually lose in first 2 rounds of the playoffs to a bigger, as skilled team like Ottawa or Atlanta. The good thing about this is it will happen over time, thus giving the city and fans the proper lead time to avoid looking at it as a disaster. Everyone on the season ticket waiting list will be able to get their's filled, and come November 2007, you can scalp into the HSBC for $20 a pair.

 

:oops:

[BetweenThePipes00]

I don't understand this thread ... I realize most are trying to just have some fun with it, but why think about it? Odds are something IS indeed going to happen to derail things. No matter how good any team is, the odds are still better for the field than they are for that one team. So why dwell on it? It's like starting a "How do you think you are going to die?" thread.

Besides, even if you were truly trying to prepare yourself, you all know damn well as soon as the puck is dropped tonight all the doom and gloom will be forgotten and you will jump in with both feet, a believer again. Because with this team it's impossible not to.

[GGM]

I don't understand this thread ... I realize most are trying to just have some fun with it, but why think about it? Odds are something IS indeed going to happen to derail things. No matter how good any team is, the odds are still better for the field than they are for that one team. So why dwell on it? It's like starting a "How do you think you are going to die?" thread.

Besides, even if you were truly trying to prepare yourself, you all know damn well as soon as the puck is dropped tonight all the doom and gloom will be forgotten and you will jump in with both feet, a believer again. Because with this team it's impossible not to.

Current odds on the Sabres taking home the hardware are 1 : 6.67. Pretty good, and best (by a comfortable margin) in the NHL. That puts the odds of "the field" at 1 : 1.18, or in percentages, 85%. So Vegas says, anyway.

 

I'm sure we all know that Vegas sets its lines to generate even betting on all sides, so they're not specifically measuring a team's chances of winning, but it's still a decent metric.