Prospect Info: #36 - Shai Buium

[ChadS]

Shai Buium (D)
6'3 / 214 lbs
Sioux City Musketeers, USHL
Heading to the University of Denver for 2021-2022

Profile: Shai Buium at eliteprospects.com

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[Appleyard]

Scouting Report: Shai Buium - Smaht Scouting

In depth report on him from Paul Zuk at Smaht Scouting.

 

[DInTheB]

Massive upside, but a huge gamble. He’s probably going to paired up with Tuimisto this fall.

 

[Pavels Dog]

Big, left-shooting d-man. Sounds familiar..

Really wonder why they felt the need to trade up here?

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

Massive upside, but a huge gamble. He’s probably going to paired up with Tuimisto this fall.

Can he play C?

 

[Frk It]

 

[DInTheB]

 

[WaW]

Shy Boom

A Wallinder - Buium pairing is intimidating name-wise

 

[Pavels Dog]

Shy Boom

A Wallinder - Buium pairing is intimidating name-wise

Buium-Seider is better.

 

[Richard Gibson]

teams before after took overagers,Arizona took Shane Doans son lol

 

[Tasteslikekevinbacon]

Please don’t be a theme draft

 

[ChadS]

Buium led Sioux City in playoff scoring, 3 points in 4 games. Teammate Chase Bradley had 1 point in 3 games.

 

[deca guard]

the defense has officially entered monster level = our end will be a very uncomfortable place for opponant forwards to attempt operating .
thats what dmen do as their base job = keep your end clean ! hell with the good skating little rat dmen that get bulldozed in own end !

https://thehockeywriters.com/shai-buium-2021-nhl-draft-prospect-profile/

 

[Henkka]

Big Defenceman - OK!

Got it.

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

Please don’t be a theme draft

Is drafting talented, big defensemen a bad thing? I'd love the Bash Brothers on defense, that would be awesome.

Which of these big boys on D has a rocket shot? He's our Fulton Reed.
Seider can be Dean Portman.

And Otto Kivenmaki or Kirill Tyutyayev can come over and be the little guy like Kenny Wu

 

[Tasteslikekevinbacon]

Is drafting talented, big defensemen a bad thing? I'd love the Bash Brothers on defense, that would be awesome.

Which of these big boys on D has a rocket shot? He's our Fulton Reed.
Seider can be Dean Portman.

And Otto Kivenmaki or Kirill Tyutyayev can come over and be the little guy like Kenny Wu

I’m totally fine with what we’ve drafted for the record so I’m not complaining per se but I’m just hoping we’re going to take some fliers on some other positions of need too

 

[bedtime20]

Has some speed and offensive skill, not a bad pick.

 

[Lil Bert]

Not sure why we had to trade up again. I'm sure Stevie has a plan but man it seems a little unnecessary to offload five(?) picks this draft. Is Stevie just all about making statements?

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

I’m totally fine with what we’ve drafted for the record so I’m not complaining per se but I’m just hoping we’re going to take some fliers on some other positions of need too

And I'm sure they will. I'm wagering that Yzerman and his scouts didn't particularly care for the crop of forwards in this draft (or cared about the defensemen available at the time of picks more). And like what one of the posts here just said... everyone knows it's a crapshoot this year, so having less picks and getting a guy you're dead sure about is better than a bunch of scattershots.

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

Not sure why we had to trade up again. I'm sure Stevie has a plan but man it seems a little unnecessary to offload five(?) picks this draft. Is Stevie just all about making statements?

We had 12 coming in. We will end up selecting about the number of players that we would have if we didn't make any trades of players at all.

 

[Bench]

Not sure why we had to trade up again. I'm sure Stevie has a plan but man it seems a little unnecessary to offload five(?) picks this draft. Is Stevie just all about making statements?

Because they had more picks than they could possibly retain in the system.

So at that point you're better off getting your top choices.

 

[Hen Kolland]

Not sure why we had to trade up again. I'm sure Stevie has a plan but man it seems a little unnecessary to offload five(?) picks this draft. Is Stevie just all about making statements?

He traded up 1 spot to pick Brayden Point. Quite simply, he doesn’t f*** around with chance when their guy is within arms reach

 

[Ghost of Ethan Hunt]

Buium-Power


BOOM! (Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini approved)


I like that we're getting all these players with cool nicknames too.


Sea Bass, Jake (from State Farm), Ned/Flanders, Boom-Boom/Boom!

 

[ChadS]

Not sure why we had to trade up again. I'm sure Stevie has a plan but man it seems a little unnecessary to offload five(?) picks this draft. Is Stevie just all about making statements?

We have a crazy amount of prospects after picking 44 times over 4 drafts. At some point quality > quantity, quality meaning getting the guys you really really want.

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

We have a lot of D prospects taken the past few years. Hopefully some of them are worth a damn.