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Brennan Huff

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  1. I'm excited to be a Buffalo sports fan in general. The Sabres and the Bills should both be very good within the next couple of years. I'm expecting playoffs for the Bills next season and I think the Sabres have a good chance for next season too

  2. And if we were playing out millions of simulations I believe you would be correct, the desired outcome would only occur less then 1% of the time. However, we are playing out 1 season with three teams stumbling to the gate and one team playing like a Stanley Cup champ. What happened the past 80 games means nothing at all. If I started arguing about a player based on 10 games you would be screaming about sample size, spouting regression and progression to the mean and the effect of randomness in hockey. I am just saying the same thing when it comes to predicting the outcome of less then 10 games. I still don't think it will happen mostly because I don't think Boston will hold up its end.

    Finally, what makes sports fun for me is because its not like playing the stock market or buying and selling a business. Its not about running a million simulations and assigning probabilities based on those numbers. And just to be clear, I understand the numbers and I understand people like yourself who are consumed by the numbers. My best friend is an analytics geek and is proud to say so. I wasn't referring to people like you or him. I am talking about people who come up with random equations and made up stats and then tell me that player X never made a pass that directly led to a shot on goal because his formula consisted of (X + Y) (number of assists) and he didn't understand that everyone that had zero assists would automatically have zero passes no matter what the other variables. Same guy tells me that team Y had a 100% chance of winning a game if they went for it on fourth and 5 with two minutes left because his probability was based on years of history.

    Yeah, and Grizzly Adams had a beard
  3. More importantly is that the Yotes and Sabres are both playing hard to the end displaying pride and not disrespecting the sport. I've been more proud of this group of Sabres than I have been other more talented groups in recent history. If Vanek, Miller, Pominville, Stafford and others would have shown this much spirit we wouldn't be one of the worst teams in the league right now. Being one of the worst teams for a second straight season is embarrassing for most Sabres fans, we can take away that even though they do not have the overall talent right now, they're not quitters and they deserve not to have "fans" quit on them over the last few games.

    I'm actually not embarrassed at all and I think there's actually a small portion of NHL fans who are a little envious of our position right now. We already own the best prospect pool in the league, and if/when we finish the season dead last we will also pick up a potential franchise changing player in the draft. I haven't been this excited as Sabres fan in quite some time
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