Confirmed with Link: Will Butcher signs with Devils

[Billdo]

Butcher was a massive pickup for this team. We pretty much added two 1st round caliber players in the same year, 3 if you count Bratt as well.


He's no Jon Merrill though.

That he’s not. You bite your tongue.

It was funny reading the first few pages of this thread a little while ago. We didn’t know exactly what we’d get but the consensus seemed to be fairly optimistic.

 

[DerekDevils30]

I have a feeling he might make the team out of camp and be on the roster on opening night.

This guy knew

 

[Jason MacIsaac]

This is all

 

[Classic Devil]

Butch has better hockey sense than Zids

Maybe. Butcher thinks the game much more methodically than Zidlicky did. Zidlicky did everything fast; Butcher doesn't.

 

[Devils731]

Butcher is good at distributing pucks to the 2 wings of the PP in the right spot and with the right weight. It’s not a skill the wows you but it allows the wings on the PP to start their attack quickly which leads to defenders scrambling.

 

[OmNomNom]

This is all

Understated how good he is in terms of primary assists. His point total isn't inflated by secondaries

 

[EliasFTW]

Wanna good laugh check out the Mirco trade thread.

This one was particularly funny.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/goto/post?id=133449971#post-133449971

 

[Classic Devil]

Wanna good laugh check out the Mirco trade thread.

This one was particularly funny.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/goto/post?id=133449971#post-133449971

We're all really bad scouts!

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

Wanna good laugh check out the Mirco trade thread.

This one was particularly funny.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/goto/post?id=133449971#post-133449971

literally SHOCKED by this...

 

[Nubmer6]

Wanna good laugh check out the Mirco trade thread.

This one was particularly funny.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/goto/post?id=133449971#post-133449971

I definitely thought we paid too much for an unproven player who didn't kill it in the AHL. Took a while for some of the people here to turn me around (I think finding out we were in a mini-bidding war with Buffalo for him helped change my mind too).

Either way, glad we got him. He's been solid.

 

[Classic Devil]

I definitely thought we paid too much for an unproven player who didn't kill it in the AHL. Took a while for some of the people here to turn me around (I think finding out we were in a mini-bidding war with Buffalo for him helped change my mind too).

Either way, glad we got him. He's been solid.

As I said at the time - there's a premium on young defensemen, probably because many of them don't finish developing until they're ~28 or even older. The price we paid wasn't really that high.

 

[Bleedred]

This guy knew

I honestly didn't know much about him or that he'd have this Rafalski-like rookie season, but I had a feeling that we were gonna give him a big edge to make the team out of camp. I actually thought Santini would be a victim of the numbers game and that he would start the season in the AHL. We wound up keeping 8D to start the season and I believe Santini was a healthy scratch on opening day this year? Or was it Mueller? I know Lovejoy definitely was.

 

[Blackjack]

I honestly didn't know much about him or that he'd have this Rafalski-like rookie season, but I had a feeling that we were gonna give him a big edge to make the team out of camp. I actually thought Santini would be a victim of the numbers game and that he would start the season in the AHL. We wound up keeping 8D to start the season and I believe Santini was a healthy scratch on opening day this year? Or was it Mueller? I know Lovejoy definitely was.

We dressed 7 d and 11 f if I remember correctly

 

[Nubmer6]

 

[Blackjack]

Last year we didn't have him, Mueller, or Vatanen. What a difference.

 

[Bleedred]

We dressed 7 d and 11 f if I remember correctly

I think you're right now that you say it.

 

[markog]

He's no Vesey or Rielly.