[The Athletic] Si vous n’êtes pas en lice pour les séries éliminatoires d’ici le Thanksgiving américain, vous pourriez avoir des ennuis. Des sabres ? Sauvage? Des pétroliers ? Les diables? La panique devrait-elle s’installer chez certains, tous ou aucun ?
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> There are different theories about just how far out you can be, and just how unlikely a comeback could be. But the most basic version is also the scariest: **Teams that are out of a playoff spot on U.S. Thanksgiving are very unlikely to make it, period. We’re told that even coaches buy into it.**
>The good news, if your team is on the outside looking in, is that we’re a few days early here. The bad news is that some teams have already clinched, in the sense that even if they win the rest of their pre-Thanksgiving games, they’ll still be out in the cold on Thursday morning. Let’s focus on those teams, and try to figure out who’s going to defy the odds.
>Bonus Five: Teams with the best shot at shaking the Thanksgiving curse
>5th. Buffalo Sabres — I’m rooting for them, I really am. But the math is starting to get a bit bleak, even after last night’s win. Maybe this is wishful thinking. Or maybe I’m putting them on the list because if they do make it, I’m going to want to join the bandwagon and I’ll use this as proof that I never gave up hope.
Really highlights how fortunate the Sabres are that the East has been mid and how much they need to start stringing wins together.
It’s bc of the stupid OT point rules.
They won’t make it this year unless something major happens with the roster, ie an in season trade. Adams failed the offseason hard. The roster needed upgrades and he failed to upgrade. Didn’t even trade Oloffson
They’ll be lucky to get 4 points out of the next 5 games.
Oh I’m panicking alright
3 losses were the difference here, once on the road to the Isles, and two at home to Calgary and Montreal. Turned into wins, those 3 put us in a playoff spot. Maybe we can make them up, maybe we can’t, but I wouldn’t count on the Eastern Conference to give us much help. We don’t win games like those, then it’s simply not deserved.
buffalo’s situation re: playoffs is not like the wild, or the oilers, or the devils. why panic either way? we should all be used to this by now