On this day 7 years ago, the Sabres rattled off a 10 game win streak and were number 1 in the league. This was the best 2 month stretch during the drought and we were all hopeful. Sadly we were the minority behind the famous thanksgiving stat which states “80% of teams in a playoff spot during thanksgiving will make playoffs”.. I always wonder how things would look nowadays if we were able to make playoffs that year..
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My parents came down from WNY that day with the sports section for me. We packed wedding swag bags as they lost to the lightning, watched them lose to the panthers after my rehearsal dinner and the rest is history. Happily married at least. Fun fact, our third date was the blackhawks game that clinched the tank. What even is time anyway.
It’s ironically sad and funny.
This was already seven years ago?!
The atmosphere during the San Jose game was insane, the roof absolutely blew off the place after Skinners OT goal. Honestly other than Eichel’s return I can’t think of a better crowd during the drought era.
Sometimes I think about how we accomplished this with a soccer coach and I wonder how good those teams could have been if we would have simply employed a hockey coach instead.
I remember that 10 game winning streak. We played terrible and half the games and somehow got the win. Now that we need that luck, we don’t get it. Sucks
Insane they missed the playoffs
It wasn’t even our best drought roster, but that was a fun run.
Then shortly after they were back where they belong at the bottom of the Atlantic.
This was the defense, and 18 year old Dahlin was the highest xGF of anyone on this list
Rasmus Ristolainen
Zach Bogosian
Rasmus Dahlin
Marco Scandella
Jake McCabe
Casey Nelson
Lawrence Pilut
Nathan Beaulieu
We were not making the playoffs that year, that the team wasn’t dead last in the NHL was improbable enough already
I remember when all the sports media were on the wagon saying they’re legit
Spoiler alert! They did not win the cup 😅
The 2018-2019 team had talent. The games lost at breakneck speed from mid-February on doomed the team.
Crazy how three of the top four back then are horrific teams nowadays
Had my bachelor party at the Vancouver game during that streak ton of fun.
Buffalo native living in Nashville. That was a fun start to the season that season. Probably have the same pic
I don’t know if it’s sad, funny, cool, or all three that every Sabres fan remembers where they were and what was going on in their lives during this time of excitement… hopefully this spring we will have all have another one of these “moments” to remember ⚔️