October marks a fresh start for the Sabres. No team - not the Oilers, Coyotes, Hurricanes or Maple Leafs - lost as many games (120) as Buffalo over the last two seasons. They lost 102 of those games in regulation alone, back-to-back 51-loss campaigns.
With such sweeping moves, are the Sabres now a playoff team?
“You’re never going to get me to say that,” Murray responded. “If we go to the Conference Finals in two years and you ask me (then) if we’re going to make the playoffs the next year, I’m not going to say that.”
The turnaround would be historic - but not necessarily unprecedented.
The last team to go from 30th place to the playoffs the following season was the 2007-08 Philadelphia Flyers.
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