It's pretty clear who the top 8 will be:

Caps
Devils
Sabres
Penz
Senz
Flyers
Habs
Bruins

While any team can beat any team in any odd game, a best-of-7 typically flushes out the better team. List the teams in order of most desirable for the Sabres to play vs. least desirable. Style and talent obviously the paramount factors, not so much the season record.

Unrelated footnote: Not to deprive the Sabres of their world-class netminder, but I wonder how many Stanley Cups the Caps could get with Miller in net. Imagine that offenseive powerhouse with Miller stopping almost everthign the other way.

not to be a jack ass or anything, but i find it slightly humorous that you spelled pens and sens with "Z" at the end but didnt do that for the caps, or canadians.

on to something that is actually about your post. i think that over the course of a 7 game series the Sabres, can probably beat the bottom 3 teams on the list. ottawa has always been a thorn in our sides so that worries me a bit. the sabres should be able to put up a good fight against the penguins and devil if the sabres offense decides to show up. i guess you can put the caps in the same boat as the penguins and devils. if the offense decides to actually play then we should be able to compete with them. not saying that we will for sure win...or for sure loose, just that it would be an exciting series.

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Bruins - No explanation needed.

Flyers - Weak goaltending, injured forward lines, slow defense.

Senators - Weak goaltending, vulnerable defense.

Devils - No huge offensive weapons. Sabres play them well.

Habs - Division rival. They worry me. Many close games. We've seen what their defense is capable of.

Caps - Dirty, dirty offensively, but they have more vulnerable areas than:

Pens - Hate them. Hate Crosby. But these guys won a cup last year for a reason. They are a well balanced team, and they will be very tough to beat.

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Then what do you call Kovalchuk, Parise and Elias?

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Parise and Elias aren't huge offensive weapons, though they are very talented.

Many others know how I feel about Kovi. Didn't he get swept last time his team was in the playoffs?

Yes, yes he did.

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Not to mention the fact that Kovy hasn't done much since going to NJ and all their fans are complaining about how he doesn't play the system and shit.

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Eh

Parise has 35 goals. He had 45 last season. How is that not a huge offensive weapon? And Elias has 13 but he's been hurt. Had 31 last season and could explode at any time.

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I wouldn't put much stock into that. Marian Hossa struggled with Pitt after the Atlanta trade... he had like 3 goals in 14 games. It takes time for a goal scorer to get used to a new team/system. Hossa then had a massive playoffs for them.

Kovy started very slow, but has scored 5 goals in last 11 games.

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Right on pace with Jochen Hecht.

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Our least favorable matchup would be Pitt and Washington.

We need to play a perfect defensive game to beat those teams.

All of the other teams it's a crapshoot basically.

Ottawa has not had much scoring lately besides Alfie their past 5 games.

We could beat any of them in a best of 7. I think our biggest challenge would be Washington as they are a really good team with a capable defense.

Pittsburgh has plenty of offense in Malkin, Crosby, Staal, and a few others, but their defense leaves me saying they won't make it out of the second round no matter who they play, unless Fluery stands on his head like he did two years ago, or unless Malkin and Crosby do what they did last year, and Malkin has been pretty crappy this year.

The Devils have a goalie who's been beaten out pretty badly his last few playoff performances and I think it continues.

Boston, they will limp into the playoffs and unless they start Rask, they bow out in the first round, even with him in. Too much grit and not enough scoring on them at this moment with Savard still out.

Montreal, not worried at all, they are a shaky team who would still be struggling to be in a playoff spot if they didn't get hot for a few games. Not the team that won the Eastern conference two years ago at all.

The Flyers will be lucky to make the playoffs still, Atlanta is very close, too many injuries for them to do anything, especially with Carter out now.

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It's not clear at all. There's eight pts seperating the 5th place team from the tenth place team. No matter how it pans out, Buffalo should take the division and beat their 1st rd opponent. The East has been too full of inconsistency and mediocrity to predict anything after that.

Yeah, I was going to say that, haha, especially with ATL and NYR playing well as of late.

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Bruins - Because they suck.

Philly - Their offense does scare me, but their goaltending really is horrible.

Sens - We have trouble against them now, but I can see us really taking it to them in the playoffs if we meet.

Devils - I don't know. Kovie kills us, and Parise is great, but they don't scare me that much.

Habs - These guys scare the crap out of me. I don't want any part of the Habs in the playoffs.

Pens - We would lose in 6.

Caps - We would lose in 5.

Well, typically when people say Penz and Senz (sound it out), the "s" sounds like a "z". Not so much with the Canadians and definitely not with the Caps.

I didn't just invent this, I've seen these teams referred to in this way many times around the internet.

True. He has been playing better of late. Takes some time I guess getting used to playing on a team that rolls four lines.

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Eh

Most of those people are morons are just trying to hard to be funny. You don't have to follow their lead.

I would modify your list to look something like this
1. Flyers- we seem always to play good against these guys
2. Bruins
3. Habs
4. Devils
5. Caps
6. Pens
7. Senators- what can I say they can't beat this team to save their life and since the series a few years ago where they knocked off Ottawa, Ottawa has been a thorn in Buffalo's side ever since. At least I know buffalo can win a game or two against the other 6 but for some reason Ottawa has owned Buffalo especially Spezza and Alfredsson.

I think the sabres would beat the Senators, Capitals, Penguins, and Devils in 4 or 5 games, and lose to Montreal, Boston, NYR, Atlanta, and Philly.

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Hahaha. I actually laughed out loud when I read this.

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