Hoss Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 (edited) Alright guys, I figured we could have a little fun here and see what everybody thinks heading into this season. Some have mentioned their predictions elsewhere, but we could get a good discussion going here. Predict the results of these: Where do the Sabres finish: Eastern Conference Finals: Western Conference Finals: Stanley Cup Finals: Hart Trophy: Vezina Trophy: Norris (defenseman): Jack Adams (coach): Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Edited October 7, 2014 by Tankalicious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 (edited) Sabres Finish: 29th, Hurricanes get 30th and Capitals get 28th ECFs: Tampa Bay vs. Pitt; Pitt goes to the Finals and hockey finally gets back on the news WCFs: Ducks (finally) vs. Chicago, Chicago gets it done. Finals: Chicago over Pitt Hart: Stamkos Norris: Doughty Vezina: Rask Adams: Ruff (ducks) Biggest named moved: Mike Green Nice; honestly didn't look at yours Tank until I finished mine. Surprised you had Ruff as the Adams winner too. Edited October 3, 2014 by WildCard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Flagg Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 Where do the Sabres finish: 14th in the league, first wild card in east Eastern Conference Finals: Buffalo over Bahston 4-3 Western Conference Finals: Colorado over Dallas 4-3 Stanley Cup Finals: Buffalo over Colorado 4-0 Hart Trophy: Sidney Crosby Vezina Trophy: Tuukka Rask Norris (defenseman): Drew Doughty Jack Adams (coach): Ted Nolan Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Marc Andre Fleury, to Filly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted October 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 Where do the Sabres finish: 14th in the league, first wild card in east Eastern Conference Finals: Buffalo over Bahston 4-3 Western Conference Finals: Colorado over Dallas 4-3 Stanley Cup Finals: Buffalo over Colorado 4-0 Hart Trophy: Sidney Crosby Vezina Trophy: Tuukka Rask Norris (defenseman): Drew Doughty Jack Adams (coach): Ted Nolan Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Marc Andre Fleury, to Filly You get the eye roll from a fellow Bonnie haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Flagg Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 (edited) You get the eye roll from a fellow Bonnie haha. Eheheh I couldn't help myself! Say, did I see you just the other day or am I crazy? Didn't want to interrupt but I thought it was you My real options, replace Tampa with Buffalo, and Laviolette as coach. and also, sabres at 25th in the league. Edited October 3, 2014 by Arcsabresfan41 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudacek Posted October 3, 2014 Report Share Posted October 3, 2014 Where do the Sabres finish: 26th Eastern Conference Finals: Montreal over Tampa Western Conference Finals: Anaheim over Chicago Stanley Cup Finals: Anaheim over the Habs Hart Trophy: Alexander Ovechkin Vezina Trophy: Carey Price Norris: Shea Weber Jack Adams (coach): Peter Laviolette Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Joe Thornton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deluca67 Posted October 4, 2014 Report Share Posted October 4, 2014 (edited) Where do the Sabres finish: 8th in the East. Eastern Conference Finals: Columbus over Tampa Western Conference Finals: St. Louis over Dallas Stanley Cup Finals: St. Louis over Columbus Hart Trophy: Steven Stamkos Vezina Trophy: Sergei Bobrovski Norris (defenseman): Erik Karlsson Jack Adams (coach): Todd Richards Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Cam Ward Edited October 4, 2014 by DeLuca1967 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted October 5, 2014 Report Share Posted October 5, 2014 Surprised no one has started this yet. Have at it; your predictions for the Sabres and for the 29 teams that are fun to hate at least once a year. Mine: Sabres finish bottom 5 but not dead last. EC playoffs (in no particular order): Montreal, Boston, Toronto (yeah, I wrote that), Washington, Pittsburgh, Rangers. Detroit and Philadelphia will not have great years but will make it in as wildcards because the rest of the conference isn't good enough. WC playoffs: Same as last year. Miller isn't enough to fix a broken Vancouver team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted October 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2014 (edited) It was started two days ago by me. Same title, too. Not sure if it's still there. Yes: http://forums.sabrespace.com/topic/22767-2014-15-nhl-season-predictions/#entry610184 Edited October 5, 2014 by Tankalicious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjag Posted October 5, 2014 Report Share Posted October 5, 2014 I do not believe playoffs are likely. So I will go with the bottom five prediction: 30. Arizona 29. Edmonton 28. Carolina 27. Calgary 26. Buffalo #1 pick goes to Edmonton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfreeman Posted October 5, 2014 Report Share Posted October 5, 2014 Where do the Sabres finish: 10th in the East Eastern Conference Finals: Boston over Tampa Western Conference Finals: Kings over Dallas Stanley Cup Finals: Kings over Boston Hart Trophy: Sidney Crosby Vezina Trophy: Carey Price Norris (defenseman): Drew Doughty Jack Adams (coach): Lindy Ruff Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Mike Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Where do the Sabres finish: 10th in the East Eastern Conference Finals: Boston over Tampa Western Conference Finals: Kings over Dallas Stanley Cup Finals: Kings over Boston Hart Trophy: Sidney Crosby Vezina Trophy: Carey Price Norris (defenseman): Drew Doughty Jack Adams (coach): Lindy Ruff Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Mike Green Some bold picks there. A coach winning his second Adams, Dallas making the WCF, Price winning a Vez. This is not a man afraid of his predictions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted October 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Some bold picks there. A coach winning his second Adams, Dallas making the WCF, Price winning a Vez. This is not a man afraid of his predictions. Ruff and Price have been picked multiple times in this thread. They'll be trendy picks all over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LastPommerFan Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Where do the Sabres finish: 7th in the East, better than 215 goals Eastern Conference Finals: Pittsburgh over Tampa Western Conference Finals: Chicago over Anaheim Stanley Cup Finals: Pittsburgh over Chicago Hart Trophy: Sidney Crosby Vezina Trophy: Rinne Norris (defenseman): Karlsson Jack Adams (coach): Nolan Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Spezza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted October 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Chalking up any postseason Sabres talk as "you're a Sabres fan, you HAVE to say that." Truly no legitimate reason to think otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Where do the Sabres finish: 7th in the East, better than 215 goals Eastern Conference Finals: Pittsburgh over Tampa Western Conference Finals: Chicago over Anaheim Stanley Cup Finals: Pittsburgh over Chicago Hart Trophy: Sidney Crosby Vezina Trophy: Rinne Norris (defenseman): Karlsson Jack Adams (coach): Nolan Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Spezza Short of Boston winning the cup and signing Stafford to a 5yr extension, this would make for one long-ass NHL season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norcal Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 Where do the Sabres finish: 28th Eastern Conference Finals: Blue Jackets over Lightning Western Conference Finals: Kings over Blues Stanley Cup Finals: Kings over Blue Jackets Hart Trophy: Kopitar Vezina Trophy: Bobrovski Norris (defenseman): Karlsson Jack Adams (coach): Todd Richards CBJ Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Stafford, Chara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted October 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) Because I forgot about the new playoff format, I'll redo my picks: Where do the Sabres finish: Second to last. Eastern Conference Finals: Tampa Bay Lightning over Columbus Blue Jackets, 4-2 Western Conference Finals: Chicago Blackhawks over Anaheim Ducks, 4-1 Stanley Cup Finals: Chicago Blackhawks over Tampa Bay Lightning, 4-2 Hart Trophy: Steven Stamkos Vezina Trophy: Carey Price Norris (defenseman): Ryan Suter Jack Adams (coach): Jon Cooper Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Evander Kane to Philadelphia. Because I'm ridiculously bored: Full NHL standings prediction: 1. Chicago 2. Pittsburgh 3. Tampa Bay 4. Anaheim 5. Boston 6. Los Angeles 7. St. Louis 8. Montreal 9. Detroit 10. Dallas 11. Minnesota 12. Colorado 13. Columbus 14. New York Rangers 15. Vancouver 16. New York Islanders 17. Philadelphia 18. San Jose 19. Washington 20. Toronto 21. Ottawa 22. Edmonton 23. New Jersey 24. Arizona 25. Florida 26. Nashville 27. Carolina 28. Calgary 29. Buffalo 30. Winnipeg Edited October 7, 2014 by Tankalicious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrueBlueGED Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 Where do the Sabres finish: Low. Not good enough? Fine. They finish 29th leaving us all hoping and praying for some good fortune. Carolina and Calgary terrify me. Eastern Conference Finals: Tampa over Pittsburgh. I'm not comfortable betting on a goaltender with only 1 proven year...but it beats the hell outta betting on Fleury! Western Conference Finals: Chicago over Dallas. Lindy likes losing in the conference finals, or something like that :ph34r: Stanley Cup Finals: Chicago over Tampa. Still not a big fan of the Tampa blue line. Hart Trophy: Tavares. I predict big things for the Isles this year, and if I'm right, he'll be a big part of it. Vezina Trophy: Rask. Arguably the best goaltender playing on arguably the best defensive team. Norris (defenseman): Shea Weber. Maybe a bit of a lifetime achievement award, but whatever. Almost went with Doughty here. Jack Adams (coach): Mike Babcock. Lots of people predicting the Red Wings to fall off...I think he helps prevent that and earns recognition for it. Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Joe Thornton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted June 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Decided to pull this back to see who got what... Hart: No picks for Carey Price. Vezina: Dudacek, Freeman and I picked Carey Price correctly. Norris: Deluca, Whiskey and Sabres12 all picked Karlsson correctly. Jack Adams: No picks for Bob Hartley Conference Finals: A lot of good calls here TrueBlue had the two conference winners right but not the losers. I had 3/4 with the correct winners. Bills12 had Tampa losing. Whiskey had 3/4 with Chicago over Anaheim but had Pittsburgh winning the East. Freeman had Tampa losing. DeLuca had Tampa losing. Dudacek had 3/4 teams right but had Chicago and Anaheim losing. WildCard had 3/4 with Tampa losing. Stanley Cup Finals: TrueBlue and I nailed the finals with Chicago over Tampa (I even predicted it would be in 6 games) WildCard had Chicago winning over Pittsburgh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) Thanks for doing the leg work on this Hoss. It's fun to look back at those predictions. Lookin forward until after FA for the new thread of predictions Edited June 30, 2015 by WildCard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoss Posted June 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Thanks for doing the leg work on this Hoss? It's fun to look back at those predictions. Lookin forward until after FA for the new thread of predictions Definitely. I hope more people participate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brawndo Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 (edited) Decided to pull this back to see who got what... Hart: No picks for Carey Price. Vezina: Dudacek, Freeman and I picked Carey Price correctly. Norris: Deluca, Whiskey and Sabres12 all picked Karlsson correctly. Jack Adams: No picks for Bob Hartley Conference Finals: A lot of good calls here TrueBlue had the two conference winners right but not the losers. I had 3/4 with the correct winners. Bills12 had Tampa losing. Whiskey had 3/4 with Chicago over Anaheim but had Pittsburgh winning the East. Freeman had Tampa losing. DeLuca had Tampa losing. Dudacek had 3/4 teams right but had Chicago and Anaheim losing. WildCard had 3/4 with Tampa losing. Stanley Cup Finals: TrueBlue and I nailed the finals with Chicago over Tampa (I even predicted it would be in 6 games) WildCard had Chicago winning over Pittsburgh. Nice job folks Thanks for doing the leg work on this Hoss? It's fun to look back at those predictions. Lookin forward until after FA for the new thread of predictions Definitely. I hope more people participate.I I have a feeling the number of new posters on this board will be increasing as well. Edited June 30, 2015 by BRAWNDO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildCard Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 I have a feeling the number of new posters on this board will be increasing as well.I hope so too. I can't wait for an actual GDT again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusader1969 Posted June 30, 2015 Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Where do the Sabres finish: 7th in the East, better than 215 goals Eastern Conference Finals: Pittsburgh over Tampa Western Conference Finals: Chicago over Anaheim Stanley Cup Finals: Pittsburgh over Chicago Hart Trophy: Sidney Crosby Vezina Trophy: Rinne Norris (defenseman): Karlsson Jack Adams (coach): Nolan Bonus: Who will be the biggest name moved during the season? Spezza Well he got Chicago and the Norris right. Plus Rinne had a fine season. But 7th in east and the Jack Adams for Nolan??? yikes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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