NHL Game Preview for Wednesday March 14, 2012 – Colorado Avalanche @ Buffalo Sabres

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The  Buffalo Sabres have a chance to do something that no other team has ever done in the NHLsince the league went to Eastern and Western Conferences. No team has ever come from last place in a conference to claim a playoff spot with 30 games or less remaining in the season. As the March Madness spreads get announced, the Sabres get ready to play the Colorado Avalanche in a game that could put the Sabres in eighth place in the Eastern Conference. If the Washington Capitals lose to the New York Islanders on Tuesday and the Sabres win in this game, thenBuffalo controls the eighth and final playoff spot in the conference with only 11 games left in its season. The Sabres have put itself in a position where it needs to rely on a lot of “ifs” to get where it wants to be, butBuffalo is taking advantage of its opportunities.

 

The Colorado Avalanche is caught up in the battle for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. The Avalanche currently holds on to that spot, but there are three teams within two points of Coloradoin the standings. The price per head bookie experts did not expect a playoff run from the Colorado Avalanche and the Avalanche are having a pretty good time proving the critics wrong.Colorado has been playing some good hockey lately and has a chance to move into seventh place in the Western Conference with a win in this game.

 

Buffalo Sabres

The Sabres owe a lot of its success lately to goaltender Ryan Miller. But the team has started to come around as of late and fans are starting to see the kind of play that could have put the Sabres way up in the Eastern Conference standings if it had happened earlier in the season. A betonline.com review of the Sabres’ most recent success shows that the team is7-2-1 in the last 10 games and riding a two-game winning streak. While the Sabres have a terrible road record for the season, the most recent road efforts have been quite successful forBuffalo. But it is at home where the Sabres have become most dangerous as the team has now won five consecutive home games.

 

Colorado Avalanche

The Avalanche have been quite successful as well lately posting a 7-3-0 record in the last 10 games and bringing a two-game winning streak of their own to Buffalo.Coloradohas also been getting stellar play from its goaltender as Semyon Varlamov is4-1-0in his last five starts and that includes a shutout over the Minnesota Wild.Coloradohas always been able to put the puck in the net and now the defense and goaltending is starting to catch up as well.

 

The Bottom Line

The Denver Nuggets are not part of any potential NBA trade rumors this year, so the talk ofDenver has been the Avalanche. The last time the Sabres battled to be within two points of a playoff spot,Buffalo lost the game that would have put it into the top eight. Unfortunately for Sabres fans, they can expect the same results in this game.

 

Pick: Colorado Avalanche

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