Quoting: pharrow
Buffalo should be sellers not buyers.
Probably should be sellers. But with 1-year of Hall...and Eichel itching to win or leave...that is tough.
Quoting: pharrow
They are in the hardest division of all of hockey. Say what you will, none of the teams above them is rolling over.
Yeah you are only 7 points down now...but that's with 16 games played. That divide is only getting worse, I don't see the need to pretend about it. It is what it is.
BOS, WSH, PHL, NYI, PIT. 4 of those 5 teams are going. You can realize that or you can't.
It's not even about BUF anymore. It's about who the rest of the division is.
Here is how I see the East:
2 teams are locks for playoffs: BOS, PHI
3 teams think they're locks, but they're not: NYI, WAS, PIT
3 teams think they can get there, but probably won't: NYR, NJD, BUF
0 teams are locked out of playoffs.
At the end of the day, its likely BOS, PHI, NYI, WAS in playoffs...but its still pretty wide open