Out of Town Thread - New Year’s 2025 Edition

It's always funny to see Buffalo make a late-season surge when they're already essentially eliminated and move from picking top 3 to the 8-14 range. Almost every year.

From 2013-2020 they picked 8th overall four times and 7th one more.

I gotta say their moves last summer weren't even bad. Savoie for McLeod got panned but seems like they finally got ahead of the bust curve and got a solid middle sixer.

Watch them pick 8th again.

They're still in 4th overall position. They would have to make up 6 pts to draft 8th. That seems doubtful at this late stage.

Chicago, San Jose & Nashville have been the bottom 3 teams all year with Buffalo & Pittsburgh switching back and forth in #4 & #5 spot. It looked at one time Buffalo might pass Pens for good, but not anymore. Pens have won 4 in a row & have climbed into 8th spot.

Buffalo could probably pass Seattle & Philadelphia to end up 6th OA. They should stay where they are & try and draft Martone.
 
It's always funny to see Buffalo make a late-season surge when they're already essentially eliminated and move from picking top 3 to the 8-14 range. Almost every year.

From 2013-2020 they picked 8th overall four times and 7th one more.

I gotta say their moves last summer weren't even bad. Savoie for McLeod got panned but seems like they finally got ahead of the bust curve and got a solid middle sixer.

Watch them pick 8th again.
It's such a tease. They go on a hot run late, gives their fans false hope and makes everyone think they can make a big jump the next season and then next season rolls around and they look bottom 5 again. Gotta feel for Sabres fans, that playoff drought is nuts. Alex Auld was a Hab last time they made it. Hutson was 7 years old
 
Being offically eliminated with 14 games left is crazy:

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Dude... The sharks are a bruuuuutal club. If they didn't have Celebreni, I feel like they don't win a single game this year.

It's wild to think that the sharks were once a power house. It'll take another 3-4 years before they are competitive.
That's what happen when you have a good team and do not care about drafting and development anymore because you have a good team. Pens are going this way too once Crosby, Letang and Malkin retire. Hope we wont fall into this pit but i sure we will again. Already the media and some of our fans are like we don't need kids anymore and we're not even contending so .... our fanbase is already in MOAR vets mode which is crazy imo.
 
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Dude... The sharks are a bruuuuutal club. If they didn't have Celebreni, I feel like they don't win a single game this year.

It's wild to think that the sharks were once a power house. It'll take another 3-4 years before they are competitive.

Given they were competitive from the 2005 lockout to ~2020, their day of reckoning was coming. That was a good run. Plus, with Celebrini, Smith, Dickinson, Askarov and potentially one of Schaefer, McKenna, DuPont in the upcoming drafts, they have the potential to build a new powerhouse in the west. I'd be pumped about the future if I was a Sharks fan.​
 

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