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Buffalo Sabres and the 2024-2025 Season

Buffalo Sabres and the 2024-2025 Season

Feeling optimistic about the Sabres chances? You can do that.

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Joe Yerdon
Oct 04, 2024
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Buffalo Sabres players stretch following their final practice before they headed to Europe to open the NHL season (Photo: Joe Yerdon)

It’s understandable to feel hopeful yet conflicted headed into a new season of Buffalo Sabres hockey, but this time around, it’s OK to lean into optimism because this version of them will be better.

Is there a science to this feeling? Are there concrete reasons why? Can proof be found before any examples are provided? No, of course not! But circumstantial evidence and anecdotes and observations we’ve got plenty of them.

The Sabres open the NHL season this weekend with a pair of games against the New Jersey Devils in Prague, Czechia and it’s high time we lay the cards on the table for how things will play out.

Shall we?

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