Quoting: NYR1983
Ya I’m pretty sure BUF isn’t getting 86 points this season. 65-75 is realistic. They are better than PHI in the east. The west they will beat ARZ and SEA, maybe SJ. You guys will have a good chance
"It would be really bad luck to have to play their third, fourth, fifth and sixth GK next year (8-15-3 composite record).
Anderson and Tokarski compiled a 27-24-7 record, which could have resulted in a 86 pt season."
Adding Comrie, Lyubushkin, Power, Quinn, as well as Samuelsson, Krebs, Tuch and Mittelstadt for a full season, to a team that finished the season 16-9-3 (9-9-2 v playoff teams over that period) and you think they will get 10 fewer points than last year.
We can let the season play out, but let me remind you, all of the pundits predicted they would get about 55 pts last year, they did 20 better than that.
This year's team is significantly better than last year, so they will get more than 75.
86 is not out of the question as you completely underestimate the value of their HC, Granato.
They WILL NOT TAKE A STEP BACKWARD AND FINISH WITH FEWER THAN 75 PTS.