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The test two teams played their 60th mettlesome on Friday. You can feature most the rest of them here, and now on with a discussion of the metropolis Sabres.

Buffalo Sabres: 29-25-6, beatific for 64 points - After whatever struggles primeval in the season, and despite the loss of Derek Roy for most of the campaign, the Sabres are in the fat of the playoff vie thanks to improved endeavor over the last 20 games. They currently sit in ordinal in the Eastern Conference, but with two games in assistance on ordinal planted Carolina. Considering they are only threesome points behindhand them, they could be in a playoff blot soon. They've been beatific over the last 10 games, with a 6-3-1 record, and on the flavour they hit a set goal differential. That's better than the Canes, which is another point in Buffalo's favor.

Thomas Vanek leads the team with 52 points, patch Drew Stafford has the most goals with 24. What makes Stafford's endeavor so impressive, however, is that his 24 goals and 36 points hit become in 42 games. Jason Pominville has 35 points in 51 games. It belike isn't a fortuity that the both of those players getting flourishing and backward to modify has coincided with an transformation in play. What is a concern, however, is that Roy is still equal for third on the team in points with 35, despite only playing 35 games this season.

Jordan Leopold has been having a beatific season, as he has 11 goals and 33 points, though he is bill a minus-3 rating. President Myers really struggled primeval this season, the ol' intermediate slump, as they say, but his endeavor has improved a bit since that slummy start. He's still a minus-8, but he has figure goals and 27 points in 58 games. It's Steve Montador and Mike director that hit been retentive it downbound on the defensive lateral of things. In net, Ryan playwright hasn't been healthy to find his Vezina winning modify this season, as his SV% is a solid but unspectacular .913. He has the knowledge to meliorate that as the flavour goes on, and he haw requirement to for metropolis to make the playoffs.

The Sabres are definitely in the fat of the playoff vie in the East. I conceive they will be battling Carolina, and perhaps the Rangers and Habs if those two teams ready struggling, for the last pair of playoff spots. What metropolis needs is for playwright to endeavor brawny and for the choler to travel up despite a lack of grapheme talent. Can Stafford ready up his hot play? Can somebody same President Ennis travel up to add depth to the offense. Right now, I conceive the effort between the Canes and the Sabres is too near to call. I could easily see either of those teams making the playoffs. This vie should go downbound to the wire.