Buffalo (In Review)

Rd 1
#23
Mark Pysyk
Defense
Born Jan 11 1992 -- Sherwood Park, ALTA
Height 6.00 -- Weight 170 -- Shoots R

2009-10 Edmonton Oil Kings WHL 48 7 17 24 47

Rd 2
No Picks (Raffi Torres bites)

Rd 3
#68
Jerome Gauthier-Leduc
Defense
Born Jul 30 1992 -- Quebec, PQ
Height 6.01 -- Weight 171 -- Shoots R

2009-10 Rouyn-Noranda Huskies QMJHL 68 20 26 46 16

#75
Kevin Sundher
Center
Born Jan 18 1992 -- Surrey, BC
Height 6.00 -- Weight 188 -- Shoots L

2009-10 Chilliwack Bruins WHL 72 25 36 61 101

#83
Matt Mackenzie
Defense
Born Oct 15 1991 -- New Westminster, BC
Height 6.02 -- Weight 198 -- Shoots R

2009-10 Calgary Hitmen WHL 64 6 34 40 62

Rd 4
#98
Steven Shipley
Center
Born Apr 22 1992 -- Ilderton, ONT
Height 6.02 -- Weight 200 -- Shoots L

2009-10 Owen Sound Attack OHL 68 23 40 63 32

Rd 5
#143
Gregg Sutch
Right Wing
Born Feb 9 1992 -- Newmarket, ONT
Height 6.02 -- Weight 190 -- Shoots R

2009-10 Mississauga St. Michael's Majors OHL 43 3 5 8 55

Rd 6
#173
Cedrick Henley
Left Wing
Born Jan 10 1992 -- Val-d'Or, PQ
Height 6.04 -- Weight 182 -- Shoots L

2009-10 Val d'Or Foreurs QMJHL 44 5 7 12 43

Rd 7
# 203
Christian Isackson
Position: Right Wing
Born: January 20, 1992 -- Pine City, MN, USA
Height: 6' 0" -- Weight -- 174 -- Shoots R


2009-2010 St. Thomas HIGH-MN 25 24 33 57 26

# 208
Riley Boychuk
Left Wing
Born Feb 20 1991 -- Abbotsford, BC
Height 6.05 -- Weight 205 -- Shoots L

2009-10 Portland Winterhawks WHL 66 14 16 30 157

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"Let's just trap Sekera in the caverns underneath HSBC arena." -BlueandYellow

Reporter: "Steve, you guys now lead the league in defensive scoring."
Montador: "It's probably because of how good-looking we are."

Defense: 3
Center: 2
Left Wing: 1
Right Wing: 2
Goal: 0

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"Let's just trap Sekera in the caverns underneath HSBC arena." -BlueandYellow

Reporter: "Steve, you guys now lead the league in defensive scoring."
Montador: "It's probably because of how good-looking we are."

This draft is a C-

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"Counting all the assholes in the room, I'm definitely not alone!" ~ Michael Poulsen, Volbeat, Still Standing.

It's hard to tell where most of these players will be in a few years from now. Bob Mckenzie had 5 of our picks in his top 75 plus honable mention.

I like the pick of Kevin Sundher. Could be a bit of a sleeper pick.

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Driver of the Tyler Ennis Bandwagon, Ridin' shotgun on the Tyler Myers Bandwagon, chillin' on the Luke Adam Bandwagon


Eh

I don't like this draft all that much. Very, very "meh."

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

Kris Baker thinks he's good, too. And I trust that guy's opinion haha.

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mechaphil

NOW, I may be reading into this a little far, BUT...Gregg Sutch lists "Americans don't deserve to play the game at the same time we do" as one of his interests. Either he's a bone-headed douchebag or he's one of those superiority nuts who could be an issue when he takes the ice with his American teammates. Just sayin'

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mechaphil

i can't believe we missed out on a chance to land Kabanov in the third round. hell if he fell to us then i don't care the risk at that point the kid is talent. you get his father out of his professional career, you land a potential superstar in the 3rd round. that would've been cool. stupid islanders for ruining my day again. step one regier came from the isles. though i know very little about the guy we picked in the third.

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It's sad that as long as Quinn is in charge Regier will be here, and as long as Regier is here Ruff is here. Say hello to more years of mediocrity Buffalo. However it is urged that you don't accept it.

RIP K.E.G. 3-16-2004

I get to see a ton of Shipley and he's not bad but he's at least 4-5 years away and Sutch is not that great of a forward he can't skate very well.

I'll rate this draft a C- or a D+

EDIT: Its late, I wrote d men for Sutch instead of of forward

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just call me Brad

Twitter @BUrbanowicz13

Sutch is a winger, dude.

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mechaphil

Whoops its late for me, I meant to write winger

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Twitter @BUrbanowicz13

Yea, it's cool. I don't like him either. Sundher is a good pick, though. One of Darcy's typical good late picks.

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mechaphil

1. Phoenix F'd us by trading their pick to Montreal. I think we would have taken Tinordi. alo we were 2 picks away from Riley Sheehan. I like the Pysyk pick, but sometimes you almost wich the Sabres or Bills would just be bad if their just gonna crap out to end their seasons. I mean how many times were we a pick away from a "Patrick Willis" type player?


2. I just don't get having 3 picks in the third round and not trading up back into the 2nd, unless the talent pool in this past draft had a dip in the mid 2nd round and picked up again in the 3rd.

3. Also no more trades for us at the deadline as the players we get can't seem to pickup our system in time to be any good. Zubrus, Bernier, and now Torres. No trades, unless its for the top guy out there...not Raffi Torres.

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If your having goal problems, I feel bad for ya son....we got 99 problems but Vanek ain't one!

Very common thing among some Canadians unfortunately. Canada is unique, but extremely close in geography and culture to the US. The thing that makes Canada most different from the US is Quebec, and, again unfortunately, many anglophone Canadians don't embrace the Quebequois. So they're left with a national identity that basically says "We're not Americans" as their definiing characteristic. That in turn, leads to an inferiority complex for those that define themselves vis-a-vis Americans. Sour grapes in a way, and inferiority complex that leads to soapbox claims of superiority in another way.

Please note that I am stereotyping here, but not the whole country. I'm stereotyping some Canadians.

Oh, I know - my use of the words "superiority nuts" was my basically encompassing your post's points, but before you posted. We're probably all aware of the fact that there are obnoxiously-nationalistic Canadians just like there are a lot of obnoxiously-nationalistic Americans

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mechaphil

Well, and to take it a little bit further, hockey is part of the Canadian national identity. So for those Canadians who can't stand living in America's shadow, it probably really bruises their egos to think that somehow Americans could "take over" their sport.

Well, that's a bit crazy. Just like tons of other countries play basketball but no other nation will ever come close to USA, no other country will ever come close to Canada in hockey.

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mechaphil

While going over the draft this morning I am absolutely choked that Darcy passed on Jordan Weal when he was still there in the third. Instead he drafted another dman. Weal is a talent and could be a huge steal. If we had him and Ennis together that would be unreal. But whatever Darcy seems to be staying away from the midgets lately.

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Driver of the Tyler Ennis Bandwagon, Ridin' shotgun on the Tyler Myers Bandwagon, chillin' on the Luke Adam Bandwagon


Eh

He put up some good numbers last year...was he on a line with Jordan Eberle?

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"...they came down into the stands and asked if I knew how to do play by play. I said...No. But. I'll take a shot at it if you want".- Rick Jeanneret