A blog about the Buffalo Sabres

Monday, April 20, 2009

Welcome Aboard, TJ Brennan and Drew Schiestel!

by Anne


The other day, the Buffalo Sabres signed defensemen TJ Brennan and Drew Schiestel to three year entry-level contracts. TJ is actually already with Portland and might see some action in the playoffs, once Coach Dineen thinks he's ready for the pace.

As per usual, I will welcome them to the FailShip:

TJ Brennan
  • Born April 3, 1989 and his hometown is Moorestown, NJ (of all the facts I write, their place of birth tends to be the most disputed)
  • Defenseman, shoots left
  • 6'0" 188lbs (ok maybe not? according to the Erin Pollina he's 6'4"? No, that can't be, his roster spot says 6'0" 205 lbs)
  • Drafted by the Sabres 31st overall in 2007, ya know, back when we were good
  • Played last year for the Montreal Junior Hockey Club
  • He was Montreal's highest scoring defenseman this year, registering 34 points (5+29) in 59 games
  • He and I are Facebook friends. I added him and then like an hour later he confirmed. He's efficient, I like that.
  • Also, his mom writes on his Facebook wall, its cute
  • Here's a feature that was done on him in Philly before the draft in 2007 that talks about his journey to juniors and to the draft:






Drew Schiestel
  • Born March 9, 1989 hometown: Hamilton, Ontario
  • Defenseman, shoots left
  • He does not have a Wikipedia page, this seriously cuts into my ability to find stuff out about him
  • 6'2" 193 lbs
  • Drafted by the Sabres 59th overall in 2007
  • Played last year in the OHL for the Niagara Ice Dogs
  • The Goose's Roost did some Facebook stalking um, research of Drew a while back
  • After I read that he'd been signed I went on Facebook to add him as a friend only to discover two things 1. I often spell his name Scheistel when its Schiestel and 2. we were already Facebook friends
  • This year he had 48 points in 63 games which was a personal best
  • His nickname is apparently Shitter. We will not be calling him that
  • Based upon being his Facebook friend, he has some diverse interests and I guess I can put it best by saying that if I was forced to choose from amongst our prospects the next one to fracture some vertebrae by falling off a barstool:


Welcome Aboard, boys!

3 comments:

  1. If either of them friends me back on Facebook, I will be really surprised.

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  2. WHAT IS THIS 1989 BS?! AREN'T THEY STILL IN DIAPERS?

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  3. YESSS I'M IN YOUR GLOSSARY!!!!!

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Glossary... Sort of

  • "Ryan Miller" Shutout - A 58 minute multi-goal shutout lead that is blown by Miller allowing one meaningless goal
  • Britney or SabreBritney - Thomas Vanek
  • Butter Snaps - Carolina Hurricanes
  • Craigory - Craig Rivet
  • Full Monty - Steve Montador
  • Greener - MATT Greene (LAK)
  • JBG - Jolly Blonde Giant - Tyler Myers
  • Little Foot - Drew Stafford
  • MK - Anne's sister; often leaves nonsensical comments under her Twitter name Mmmkizzle
  • Noodles - Derek Whitmore
  • Oscar - Anne's cat and STH's unofficial mascot
  • Parsley - Jimmy Bonneau
  • Sir Christopher - Chris Butler
  • Sissy - Jaroslav Spacek
  • Telly Monster - Mikael Tellqvist

Because It's Never not Funny


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