Are We For Real?

[Archie Lee]

3 hours ago, MattPie said:

Sabres are 5-1-4 in the last ten, which is 0.700 points%. That's playoff pace every year, even 0.600 is solid for the playoffs. People can complain about OT losses all they want, but the Sabres could play 5-1-4 or 4-2-4 hockey all season and be pretty safe for the playoffs.

It remains to be seen if the last ten or the first three are the aberration. The Sabres have never been afraid run to a zero-for-a-month streak.

It sort of depends on where you slice the pie. 5-1-4 over the last 10 games is great. 1-0-4 over the last 5 is not so good. On balance, things have been encouraging after the 0-3 start. I think goaltending has been good to very good in all but 2 games. They seem like a more mature group than the last two years. Hopefully Benson, Zucker, and Danforth are all back soon and we will get a closer look at what the near full line-up looks like. 

[mjd1001]

4 hours ago, MattPie said:

Sabres are 5-1-4 in the last ten, which is 0.700 points%. That's playoff pace every year, even 0.600 is solid for the playoffs. People can complain about OT losses all they want, but the Sabres could play 5-1-4 or 4-2-4 hockey all season and be pretty safe for the playoffs.

It remains to be seen if the last ten or the first three are the aberration. The Sabres have never been afraid run to a zero-for-a-month streak.

My personal opinion is neither one is an aberration but neither one is who they are. 

They are a combination of both. They are a team that is just outside of the playoffs. 

They are a combination of three games that they were at the start of the season with the better team that they've been since.

Now when they get some injured players back, let's see if they can improve on that.

[matter2003]

Sylvester sure thinks so...

 

 

[MattPie]

1 hour ago, Archie Lee said:

It sort of depends on where you slice the pie. 5-1-4 over the last 10 games is great. 1-0-4 over the last 5 is not so good. On balance, things have been encouraging after the 0-3 start. I think goaltending has been good to very good in all but 2 games. They seem like a more mature group than the last two years. Hopefully Benson, Zucker, and Danforth are all back soon and we will get a closer look at what the near full line-up looks like. 

Even 1-0-4 is 0.600, which is playoff pace. In the old 82-game season, that's a 98-point pace.

[shrader]

15 minutes ago, MattPie said:

Even 1-0-4 is 0.600, which is playoff pace. In the old 82-game season, that's a 98-point pace.

And 5-1-4 is a Presidents’ Trophy pace. Of course that’s not going fall off a bit.