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----------- https://www.dimers.com/news/buffalo-sabres-vs-florida-panthers-prediction-nhl-ac-4-12-25 The Florida Panthers and Buffalo Sabres will meet in the NHL at Amerant Bank Arena on Saturday, with puck drop at 6:00PM ET. Based on the latest simulations, Dimers' proven NHL model (see Dimers Pro for full access) projects the Panthers as the most likely winner of today's game. "Our team has used the latest data to run 10,000 simulations of Saturday's Buffalo-Florida game," said Mac Douglass from Dimers. "By incorporating recent updates and various other inputs, we estimate that the Panthers are more likely to win, while the Sabres have a lower chance of victory." For expanded analysis of Saturday's matchup, including best bets and player prop picks, visit our interactive Sabres vs. Panthers predictions page.

https://www.diebytheblade.com/game-79-preview-open-thread-sabres-vs-panthers/ 1. Bounce Right Back After a deflating defeat to Columbus on Thursday night, the Sabres will be looking to get right back into the win column. Their 8-2-0 run in the last ten has been marred by a couple of losses to the Flyers and the Blue Jackets. One thing we have seen in this recent streak has been the Sabres upping their game when taking on championship caliber teams, like the Hurricanes, Capitals and the Lightning. With three games to play, both the Panthers and Lightning are neck-and-neck for the second spot in the Atlantic Division, with the latter two points ahead. Division leaders Toronto are a further two points ahead, albeit having a game in hand over the pair. Coincidentally the Sabres play both teams back-to-back, so could yet have a say in how the final standings in the division shake out. 2. Stay Out of Trouble The Panthers are one of the better teams in the league in terms of special teams, just inside the top ten both with the man advantage and on the penalty kill. Being able to add a notorious forward like Brad Marchand at the trade deadline has served to make them even more fearsome. The former Bruin plays on the second line and is on the top power play line too. He just scored his first Panthers goal putting him at three points in eight games as he gets to know his new linemates. Marchand has played the most times against Buffalo as any other opponent, with his 68 points (27 goals, 41 assists) coming in 65 games. 3. Goalie Management James Reimer has continued his hot streak for a few weeks now, which has been something we’ve not been used into in Buffalo from a backup. Granted that the starter Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen has had some struggles lately, and likely needed this time to work things out, but this does put General Manager Kevyn Adams in an interesting position. Is this summer the time to move UPL as a significant piece to bring in a contending team level goaltender? Or do the Sabres pin their hopes on him turning it around next season, fully knowing that the team’s inability to stop shipping goals has given the franchise the unwanted record of having the longest active playoff drought in the game. Should we infer anything from the team’s starting goalie selections with four games left to go? Buffalo plays Saturday and Sunday, and then close out at home with games on Tuesday and Thursday. Could who plays more of the remaining games point to what Adams will be thinking? Projected Lineups Buffalo Sabres Forwards Zach Benson – Jiri Kulich – Tage Thompson JJ Peterka – Ryan McLeod – Jack Quinn Jason Zucker – Peyton Krebs – Alex Tuch Beck Malenstyn – Noah Östlund – Sam Lafferty

There are not younger options, there are younger potential options in a market hungry for goaltenders, meaning you have to sign them. Sure, get someone better, by all means, if you can

Low cost, short term, wants to be here, has gotten job done and sat out with no complaints to let younger players try and prove themselves. Don't really see down side here

Dan, that’s down from Cleveland not up

Oh boy! Dahlin, just sweet

Nice!! This line is so special!

Ya, Leo!

Big game, must win, whatever, just entrain us! Mark Wayne!

And who cares?

No one is saying he will be a savior, just an insurance policy

He is obviously our best goalie right now. He will be 38 next year, but hey, 40 is the new 30, so I can't see that as a deal breaker. Just think that he will probably get other offers. Does he block Levi? Is that a bad thing?

Well, we shall see if that worked out for us. Levi has to turn out to be really good for that deal to be viewed as a success

Crazy how well he is playing with TNT. So he kills penalties, gets PP time and is on the top line and is only a kid. And he will get better. 👍

James Reimer should get a lot of offers from teams

Quinn is really looking stronger along boards

So being talented and opportunistic isnt important? Huh?

Krebs with crazy break out rush

It is Marty, I think

Oh, them two!! Chemistry 101

Beautiful!!!

50 still doable???

They should pretty much just stand pat. Their younger players are maturing and starting to round into shape. Sure, if a major opportunity to improve the team comes along via trade, take it, but don't just blow up everything for the sake of blowing everything up. Goaltending needs to be looked at long and hard, but really the options available to upgrade from outside are usually limited, so try and sign Reimer and hope UPL and Levi get their acts together, push each other and begin to form a tandem where they play the hot goaltender. Competition might help here. Of course, always be on the look out for a way to improve the team, but not go crazy for sake of change.

I'm reading Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Starry Messenger which I did not like at first, thinking it was silly to think about people just getting more enlightened, but it is a really excellent book as it turns out. Among many other things he makes the point that space exploration is very important for life on earth. For example, he did this comparison of the years when the Apollo missions were taking place and how the Environmental Movement really took off. After earth was photographed from space people took an interest in not taking the planet for granted. He makes a good argument that the Apollo missions really jump started our love of the planet. He also makes the point that there are enormous stores of resources in space that we should tap for our benefit. The book is funny in parts but I also think he puts too much emphasis on human reason and forgets a bit how crazy irrational we are, but it is still a great read, as are all his books. He is the new Carl Sagan in a way. He is a great spokesperson for science in general and astrophysics in particular

Taking just him for Cozens might have been a fine move