Brian Huddle: With the Twenty-First Pick in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, Buffalo Selects... Henrik Samuelsson

Let's go after the Ducks garage sale!

Ryan
Getzlef

Pittsburg is taking offers fir Jordan Staal

*Sign Parsie

Trade Roy, Leopold, Sekera, two 1st and two 2nd's are great bait for an exciting month!

Always enjoy your pieces Brian and getting some well written insight.

Let's go after the Ducks garage sale!

Ryan
Getzlef

Pittsburg is taking offers fir Jordan Staal

*Sign Parsie

Trade Roy, Leopold, Sekera, two 1st and two 2nd's are great bait for an exciting month!
- Irish 14

Quit drinking before 10am..

Always enjoy your pieces Brian and getting some well written insight.


- sambarugh

Thanks mate!

Let's go after the Ducks garage sale!

Ryan
Getzlef

Pittsburg is taking offers fir Jordan Staal

*Sign Parsie

Trade Roy, Leopold, Sekera, two 1st and two 2nd's are great bait for an exciting month!
- Irish 14

I think we should trade for Shea Weber too! They'd probably accept Pysyk and a 1st for him.

Seriously, Quit drinking before 10am.....

Let's go after the Ducks garage sale!

Ryan
Getzlef

Pittsburg is taking offers fir Jordan Staal

*Sign Parsie

Trade Roy, Leopold, Sekera, two 1st and two 2nd's are great bait for an exciting month!
- Irish 14

The Ducks aren't having a garage sale and you really want a 5' 11" winger who's going to fetch a small fortune?

Anyway, this thread is about the draft. I don't think we move up - either we'll draft in our position for best available or trade the picks for a player.

Ill take a guy like this any day of the week, with the added bonus of NHL bloodlines sign me up. Sounds like he isnt a liability in either end of the rink. Needs to improve skating but that sounds like another son of a former NHL we have all come to love.

Seems high for Samulesson. I don't think I'd take him until the 2nd, I just don't see more than the 3rd line role.

Seems high for Samulesson. I don't think I'd take him until the 2nd, I just don't see more than the 3rd line role.
- Lahey

well that pretty much sounds like a buffalo player then.. because we are not capable of drafting anything much other than 3rd line players

Seems high for Samulesson. I don't think I'd take him until the 2nd, I just don't see more than the 3rd line role.
- Lahey

Pretty much all of the forwards from 20 on are big question marks as far as upside whether 3rd liner or not.

This is Vancouvers guy

I think we should trade for Shea Weber too! They'd probably accept Pysyk and a 1st for him.

Seriously, Quit drinking before 10am.....
- Charlie Conway

Serious overpayment for Shea. He shouldn't cost that much since he isn't signed yet..

For being considered a weak Draft lacking star power, it seems there is a lot of near surefire NHL talent all the way into the 2nd Round.

Are there any reliable, primarily shutdown D that are being overlooked with all the flashy offensive D going in the 1st Round? Maybe a good early 2nd Round option?

Seems high for Samulesson. I don't think I'd take him until the 2nd, I just don't see more than the 3rd line role.
- Lahey

So a top line guy on the Sabres?

Pretty much all of the forwards from 20 on are big question marks as far as upside whether 3rd liner or not.
- Brian Huddle

Seems like a waste although if Samulesson can be a pest on the third line that's far better than just being a checking line 3rd liner.

For being considered a weak Draft lacking star power, it seems there is a lot of near surefire NHL talent all the way into the 2nd Round.

Are there any reliable, primarily shutdown D that are being overlooked with all the flashy offensive D going in the 1st Round? Maybe a good early 2nd Round option?
- psoneill

Patrick Sieloff. Guy hits like a freight train.

Serious overpayment for Shea. He shouldn't cost that much since he isn't signed yet..
- SabresFaninIndiana

Not that the trade has any realism to it but Weber is an RFA not a UFA and that changes the value as well.

So a top line guy on the Sabres?
- Rally_Shots

Definitely the kind of guy Lindy likes on the ice with two minutes left when we're down by one.

Ill take a guy like this any day of the week, with the added bonus of NHL bloodlines sign me up. Sounds like he isnt a liability in either end of the rink. Needs to improve skating but that sounds like another son of a former NHL we have all come to love.
- hubie

I was thinking that too while reading it. Judging solely on what others say and his stats he does seem like a slightly more talented Marcus Foligno.

Seems high for Samulesson. I don't think I'd take him until the 2nd, I just don't see more than the 3rd line role.
- Lahey

Guys we are talking about the same guy who drafted Andrew Peters 34th (137 picks before Datsyuk) so im alarmed he didnt trade up.

Seems that with the draft being pretty weak the pick trade is the route I like.

Definitely the kind of guy Lindy likes on the ice with two minutes left when we're down by one.
- sambarugh

Not that the trade has any realism to it but Weber is an RFA not a UFA and that changes the value as well.
- Gunner Staal

i want to give you an award for missing the point.... but i don't think you did you are just being a smart ass

Quit drinking before 10am..
- Pairo11

ummmm....gil?...he's irish

Guys we are talking about the same guy who drafted Andrew Peters 34th (137 picks before Datsyuk) so im alarmed he didnt trade up.

Seems that with the draft being pretty weak the pick trade is the route I like.
- hubie

There were 171 guys taken before Datsyuk. No GM in the league saw that coming.