Before the Buffalo Sabres opened their 2016-17 schedule, I took some time out of my summer to predict how the team would perform in each month of the regular season.
Obviously, my crystal ball failed to predict that Jack Eichel and Evander Kane would both miss a significant number of games due to injuries sustained by the close of opening night. Likewise, I could not foresee that the Sabres as a whole would have suffered the third-most man-games lost to injury (thanks to Man-Games Lost.com).
Even so, I predicted that the Buffalo Sabres would be 22-21-6 when February started, good for 50 points.