News Article: 20 Great Quotes from the Sabres 2012 Draft

[Buffaloed]

Grigorenko’s upside is right there with Yakupov’s. Elite hockey sense, high-end puck skills, skates well, can dominate puck possession.
— Corey Pronman (@coreypronman) June 23, 2012

Craig Button, TSN analyst and former NHL GM, on Zemgus Girgensons

“What (Toronto GM) Brian Burke always says is that he wants players with equal parts of testosterone, truculence and belligerence… When he says that, he could be talking about Zemgus Girgensons.”
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[Zman5778]

Apparently Justin Kea is still bouncing around the ECHL. So is Logan Nelson.

And hey, Brady Austin got 5 games with us............

 

[Buffaloed]

Mikhail Grigorenko

“All the time, I think the Buffalo Sabres jersey is, like, one of the most beautiful jerseys in the League.”

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Mikhail Grigorenko

“I was deceived. They told me the jerseys were royal blue.”​

 

[missingmika]

WTF, no quotes on Judd? Lame

 

[Gabrielor]

Would've been really interesting to see Grigorenko on a real team's development path. Apparently he's real good in the KHL.

 

[Gras]

I remember when it was touted that we got our 1C and 2C in the same draft.

 

[itwasaforwardpass]

Was the Chuck Norris meme still around in 2012?
You could replace Zemgus Girgensons' name with Chuck Norris in half of those quotes about him.

John Vogl of The Buffalo News on Zemgus Girgensons

“Girgensons is a 6-foot-2 mountain of fury in a flat-top buzzcut. The 198-pound center would rather go through defenders than around them, but he has the ability to do both.”​

If Girgensons’ tattoo says anything, it tells us that he eats other hockey players for breakfast. #ScaryDude#Sabres twitter.com/ScottyMCSS/sta…
— Scott Michalak (@ScottyMCSS) June 23, 2012


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[itwasaforwardpass]

I also like how Brian Burke valued "belligerence" and "truculence" in a player.

 

[SundherDome]

I remember watching that draft and when Washington took Forsberg, I was estatic and couldn't believe he fell and then the Buffalo came out of me and I immediately went to, why did we get something nice, he must be broken.

 

[DolanPlsGoSabres]

I remember watching that draft and when Washington took Forsberg, I was estatic and couldn't believe he fell and then the Buffalo came out of me and I immediately went to, why did we get something nice, he must be broken.

Darcy Lindy Ron and Ted all mismanaged the guy. Rushed him for no real reason at all.




The days when we thought we had an amazing C core with CoHo, Ennis, Grigs and Girgs....

 

[Paxon]

Are people really trying to blame the Sabres for Grigorenko? At this point he'd have made it in the NHL irrespective of how the Sabres handled him.

 

[SundherDome]

Are people really trying to blame the Sabres for Grigorenko? At this point he'd have made it in the NHL irrespective of how the Sabres handled him.

I blame em. The shell shocked him and at 25 he seems like he is back to being what we hoped he would be.

 

[CatsforReinhart]

I blame em. The shell shocked him and at 25 he seems like he is back to being what we hoped he would be.

You mean a KHL player who can't crack the NHL?