The 2025/26 NHL Season for Buffalo Begins!
Sabres vs Blue Jackets Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide Arena will host the Buffalo Sabres tonight at 7pm EST.
Although it is just a preseason game it still gets the blood pumping, but with tempered enthusiasm I am looking forward to getting the season started, last night the back-to-back defending Stanley Cup champions were shut out 5-0, and so it goes with games that do not count in the regular season standings.
To all ESPN FHL team managers, we have approximately two weeks to build our player lists, edit & select the best we want to acquire, and go to the ESPN NHL FHL page to draft our team.
As always Buffalo Winter will draft only one public team and good or bad I will play my team until the final week of play, if I do not earn a playoff seeding, I will still manage my team as solidly as I can, because it will still be valuable for me to learn and earn experience for next year.
Buffalo Winter 
Golden Knights and Flames also got shut out last night.
Leafs had a preseason game yesterday (Final score Toronto Maple Leafs 4 Ottawa Senators 3) but there were hardly any Leafs players whose names I recognized whereas Sens were playing with most of what will be their regular roster.
While I would normally use preseason statistics when thinking about my picks in the fantasy hockey draft, this time I don’t think that I will rely on them as much. Instead I will (if I decide to enter a team) reply far more on last year’s player stats.
Good luck to your Sabres tonight. Have fun.
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I like preseason well enough, just to get things rolling, but as far as fantasy is concerned, I appreciate your point of view about not relying too heavily on preseason for statistical information.
Thank you, win or lose I will indeed have fun watching the game tonight.
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