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!