From a friend...
You're assuming every other team plays to its season pace. No one else makes a heroic run toward the playoffs.
Yet the Sabres who have 71 points in 70 games and are 5-4-1 in their last 10 are going to win 10 of 12.
Because those other teams are ass, but we are not.
This team does not deserve the hopium you are offering out the car window.