2024-25 Buffalo Sabres Season Preview
Buffalo has missed the playoffs for over a decade. When does the drought end?
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I’m cautiously optimistic as usual. The bottom 6 is now significantly more gritty and faster, which was a huge problem with the team last year.
Our top 6 is slightly weaker without Jeff Skinner, but Zach Benson could take a considerable step forward so it remains to be seen if this team is able to match or get close to its 22-23 offensive levels.
Defensively, the team will likely continue to improve as the players mature.
A full year of UPL the way he played the second half of the season will help the team get off to a better start of the season.
The prospect core is still outstanding, and several players like Kulich and Rosen should be able to fill in on the roster if necessary.
Ruff is a solid coach and will probably help the team get off to better starts in each game, which might have one the Sabres enough games to sneak into a wildcard spot last year.
Honestly, I have no clue how this team is going to play, and it’s kinda exciting.
I think Buffalo makes the playoffs this year. They could use another top 6 forward
I really REALLY hope we make the playoffs. I want to see it because it's been so long for myself and other fans that have stuck around, but I feel terrible for all the younger fans that have never seen Buffalo make it. They have no idea what it's like and how much air it breathes into the WNY.
3 goalies did not benefit Buffalo. As soon as they went with 2, UPL broke out. He got a bigger share of shots at practice. Instead of breaking them 3 ways, it was just split in half.
Keep Levi in Rochester. The best way to develop is to play!!
I appreciate all the season previews Shannon but I don't understand the point of telling us about the stat leaders over the last 10 years.
As an oiler fan, I really want Buffalo to succeed. I can relate to their situation of many years of highly touted picks, lots of skill and young players. Just gotta find the right combination. Buffalos got the best young defensive core in the league imo. Hope they figure it out this year
My least favorite NHL team
Buffalo always has young talent and always has cap space, they keep just spinning the tires . This team is going nowhere fast . The real question is , who's the next player to be traded from Buffalo and win a Stanley cup ?
Different? Thats nashville late 2000s a** stuff haha
Really hope the Sabres can make it. Beyond the playoff appearance drought, the Sabres haven't won a playoff series since before the first iPhone was released.
There is a pretty healthy chance that the two wild card teams could come from the Atlantic
Ugly.
I don’t know if they’ll make the playoffs this season, but they damn well better. Not even a Sabres fan, but no team deserves this long of a drought.
Cups, heh, heh.
Make the playoffs or sell the team
Buffalos problem is and always has been management. From the owners down through the entire organization there is ZERO leadership. No accountability, no responsibility, under the Pegulas ownership the Sabres have literally become a farm team for the rest of the league. 👍
I really want them to make the playoffs, but I don't see how that would be possible.
You forgot to say the extras for the defenseman, but I’m so sorry about that.
In Lindy. They trust!!!!
The Buffalo Sabres will make the playoffs
Worst case scenario for Sabres: Last team eliminated from making the playoffs.
Seriously, you wore that abomination, Was a good jersey in the wash?
I think they will make it.
Buffalo improving their bottom 6 is really important. UPL & Levi need to continue to improve. Scoring will rebound.
Buffalo all the way this time. 14 times, the 14th time is the charm.
Let's go sabres!!!
It’ll be 14. I just don’t see what this team has done to improve. They’re too young. They need to add a guy with some experience…
I like that jersey, if they got rid of that asinine gray that jersey designers, for some idiotic reason, were trying to push around that time. Love the idea of a jersey that's one color on the front and a different color on the back. Looking at the roster as listed here, Buffalo definitely looks like a better team, in every department, than Ottawa. Are they better than Detroit or the Islanders or Washington or Philadelphia or Pittsburgh? One or two of those teams they'll have to beat out to make the playoffs.
Only 3 of our top 10 scorers are still here 😭
Let’s go Buffalo
I know he has been disappointing, but Peyton Krebs is an omission from the forward roster (or extras). This team can make the playoffs, but it is not a sure thing. In addition to the 8 teams that made the playoffs last season, there were 4-5 other teams that were battling for a spot fairly late into the season. Unfortunately, the Eastern Conference is tough, made even tougher for a team that has very little NHL playoff experience on the roster.
Malenstyn is an intriguing, important acquisition: Buffalo badly needed more physical play up front (a crease-clearer and goalie-screener) as much as they have to improve on faceoffs.
At this point in the channel voting it seems there are subsribers that vote every team either 1st or 8th
They’ve not improved anywhere they needed to.
The Buffalo sabres have an embarrassment of riches on defense. Dahlen, Power and now Byran are a great top 3.
I think there were some iffy coaching hires over the past decade… here's to hoping Lindy can do it.
Tentatively optimistic. I'm ready to get hurt again
Sabres improved this off season. Head coach , new system. Gritty , sandpaper bottom 6 now. Goaltending has improved, and defense improved. Secure a better home record and improve on the PP and we are in. Sabres finish top 4 in division.
Is Peyton Krebs still in the NHL??