BUFFALO SABRES SIGN BOWEN BYRAM: WHY THIS IS PERFECT FOR A TRADE

BUFFALO SABRES SIGN BOWEN BYRAM: WHY THIS IS PERFECT FOR A TRADE

Well, this update can be seen as a very small, insignificant deal in the grand scheme of things. Rick Dollywal tweeted out about an hour ago that the Buffalo Sabres and Bowen Byum will avoid arbitration as at that time they were closing in on a new contract. Shortly after you had Elliot Freriedman go out there and giving the details. Bowen Byum has signed a two-year contract extension with the Sabres at 6.25 million a year. And at first glance, you know, you can say, “Oh, great. A guy avoided arbitration. A guy signed the deal. 2 years 625. That’s not that big of a deal, right?” And I guess you can say that’s correct. 6 years or excuse me 2 years 625 that’s not a big contract at all. The dollar amount is fine for the talent that Bow and Byron provides. The cap is going up. Nobody’s going to say that Buffalo is strangling themselves with this kind of a contract. But it becomes a lot more interesting and an even bigger deal when you think about the implications as to the contract length and where this takes Bow and Byron the player. So if we scroll up into Puckedia’s analysis of the deal, they say here the Sabers 24year-old RFA left-handed defenseman Bowen Bum has signed a 2-year, $625 million cap hit contract. The deal covers two RFA seasons and walks by straight to UFA status. He’s been what is that? Represented. There you go. Brain fart. Represented by Darren Ferris at quarterx hockey. First in the signing was Rick Dollywal and first on the terms was Elliot Freriedman. Here is the Puckedia analysis of where the money is going. Byum’s 2-year, $625 million cap hit Sabres deal $5.25 million salary in the first year with a $1 million signing bonus and then a full-on $625 million salary in year two, covering two RFA seasons and expiring as a UFA. That right there is the big part. Expires as a UFA. Bowen Byum has pretty much gotten uh what is it? Preemptively traded. That’s the term they used on the subreddit. Let’s go out there and read this. Our hockey posted about the Bum contract details 47 minutes ago. I’ve never seen a player so preemptively traded. Unless this deal has a full no trade clause, trade rumor season is just getting started for Bowen Bum. Lots of teams out there could use an offensively talented lefty. Fans will never stop preemptively trading him. Pacquiao bags. RFAS cannot get no trade clauses. I believe that is true. Only UFA years are allowed no trade clauses. So essentially, now that the Buffalo Sabres have Byum under contract, and now that we know the number, it becomes all the more easier for teams to start knocking on Buffalo’s door saying, “Hey, can we get that guy? Hey, what’s the price for that guy? Hey, what do you want for that guy? Might I remind you, the Sabres already have Dalene and Power?” Not to mention Matias Samuelson signed onto a long-term deal. Those are three lefties already. And then you add Byum, a guy who was already reported to potentially be wanting out. A guy who couldn’t really agree with terms with the Buffalo Sabres. A guy who wants a bigger role. A guy who is probably better than whatever it is he has been playing like in Buffalo. This is a young talented player that I know a lot of Sabers fans can harp on and they can say, “Oh, he’s only good when he plays with Dene. Oh, he’s not this. Oh, he’s not that.” I’m biased. I’m a Canucks fan. I watched this guy with the Vancouver Giants and I was like, “Yeah, this guy has top tier potential.” He couldn’t make it work in Colorado because he’d have to overtake Kale Mar and Devontaves. And now in Buffalo, things haven’t been really working out all too well for him either. And this contract is pretty fine. I would say it’s so fine that if things went let’s just say they went south this upcoming season if things are so so to not great in 2025 2026 once 2026’s off season comes and Bowen Bum has one year left at 625 million and he’s eligible for another contract extension at that point then it becomes all the more easier for Buffalo to dangle Bowen Bum out and be like hey we got this guy 50% salary retained anybody want him 625 divvy 2 is 3.1 something something something something so 3.1 something for a guy in Bowen Byum who when he was playing without Raasmus Dalene a lot of folks will say he wasn’t great but I will also argue that when Rasmus Dalene was injured and Bowen Byum was tasked with being the number one guy he played very well in that role by this previous season had 38 points in 82 teams a careerhigh in points in a season for the young defenseman. And you will still find people saying that he wasn’t really all too great. I think a lot of that has to do with the expectation. It’s the fact that he was a former fourth overall pick and a lot of folks were saying that he would have been a number one defenseman by this time in his NHL development. It just didn’t happen in Colorado. It hasn’t happened yet with Buffalo. There’s a lot to go over with the Sabers and their decor long term because there are so many good names, but Bowen Byum is maybe one of the odd guys out, especially since he’s one of many lefties on that Buffalo Sabres core. He also doesn’t happen to be a first overall pick. So, a lot of Sabers fans are going out there and responding to this positively as well. I mean, you scroll over onto their subreddit. Honestly, I’m not even mad. Obviously, this is a cheap bridge deal to get him to free agency, but if he plays well, we could get a crap ton at the deadline this year or next year for him, which I think is the most likely scenario. Plays with Dalian this year and to the deadline next. Then he is placed replaced by Merka who enters the NHL struggling for 5 minutes, then levels McDavid, Dry Settle, and Booard on his way to scoring a first seed clinching. Okay, that’s a very hypothetical situation. This is pretty much exactly what I wanted. You get a competent player in Byum as a partner for Dalian for 2 years, worst case scenario, and the cap hit is low enough that it’s very tradable. We’re going to get cooked for this, but it makes a ton of sense. I think the only reason the Sabres would get cooked is because of how much they’re spending on D right now. Otherwise, I think this is fine. They prevented an offer sheet by electing arbitration and they signed Barum for a reasonable number and term so the contract can easily be traded. I think it’s solid all around. It’s so interesting to me how the default mindset of a lot of Sabers fans is, oh yeah, okay, great. We ressign this guy. Now he’s easier to trade. Now he’s got that accessibility to potentially being on the move. And there’s extra value that you can add on if you play him the right way next season. and he actually plays well. You know, Bow and Byron is also going to try to put his best foot forward because he wants to set himself up for the best destination possible next year, right? He’s not going to play poorly and then expect to get traded to a team that he actually wants to go to. He wants to play well. He wants there to be a bidding war for his services. He wants to go to a team that’s willing to spend. And by the time 2027 rolls around, he might be able to get even more money and a better role on a better team. Who knows? There’s a lot of potential here for Bowen Byum, the player, and for the Buffalo Sabres to potentially get some stuff because they know that Bow and Byron is an asset that they don’t really have long term. They know that he doesn’t want to be there long term. So, this is kind of the best case scenario for everybody. Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below about the Bowen Byum contract as reported by Rick Dollywal and Elliot Freriedman. What are your thoughts in the dollar amount? What are your thoughts on the story itself? What are your thoughts on Bram signing this contract that goes straight to unrestricted free agency status? Let me know in the comments section all your opinions. I hope you enjoyed this video 9 and bye.

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The Buffalo Sabres have signed Bowen Byram.

This video is taking place after the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The 2025 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:

1st) New York Islanders, Matthew Schaefer
2nd) San Jose Sharks, Michael Misa
3rd) Chicago Blackhawks, Anton Frondell
4th) Utah Mammoth, Caleb Desnoyers
5th) Nashville Predators, Brady Martin
6th) Philadelphia Flyers, Porter Martone
7th) Boston Bruins, James Hagens
8th) Seattle Kraken, Jake O’Brien
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Radim Mrtka
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Roger McQueen
11th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Benjamin Kindel
12th) Philadelphia Flyers (from New York Rangers via Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins), Jack Nesbitt
13th) Detroit Red Wings, Carter Bear
14th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Jackson Smith
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Braeden Cootes
16th) New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames via Montreal Canadiens), Victor Eklund
17th) New York Islanders (from Montreal Canadiens), Kashawn Aitcheson
18th) Calgary Flames (from New Jersey Devils), Cole Reschny
19th) St. Louis Blues, Justin Carbonneau
20th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Minnesota Wild), Pyotr Andreyanov
21st) Nashville Predators (from Ottawa Senators), Cameron Reid
22nd) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Colorado Avalanche via Philadelphia Flyers), Bill Zonnon
23rd) Ottawa Senators (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Nashville Predators), Logan Hensler
24th) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Los Angeles Kings), Will Horcoff
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Vaclav Nestrasil
26th) Nashville Predators (from Vegas Golden Knights via San Jose Sharks), Ryker Lee
27th) Washington Capitals, Lynden Lakovic
28th) Winnipeg Jets, Sascha Boumedienne
29th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Mason West
30th) San Jose Sharks (from Dallas Stars), Joshua Ravensbergen
31st) Los Angeles Kings (from Edmonton Oilers via Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins), Henry Brzustewicz
32nd) Calgary Flames (from Florida Panthers), Cullen Potter

This video is also taking place after 2025 NHL Season, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.

Bowen Byram was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.

The 2019 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:

1st – New Jersey Devils, Jack Hughes
2nd – New York Rangers, Kaapo Kakko
3rd – Chicago Blackhawks, Kirby Dach
4th – Colorado Avalanche (from Ottawa Senators), Bowen Byram
5th – Los Angeles Kings, Alex Turcotte
6th – Detroit Red Wings, Moritz Seider
7th – Buffalo Sabres, Dylan Cozens
8th – Edmonton Oilers, Philip Broberg
9th – Anaheim Ducks, Trevor Zegras
10th – Vancouver Canucks, Vasily Podkolzin
11th – Arizona Coyotes (from Philadelphia Flyers), Victor Soderstrom
12th – Minnesota Wild, Matthew Boldy
13th – Florida Panthers, Spencer Knight
14th – Philadelphia Flyers (from Arizona Coyotes), Cam York
15th – Montreal Canadiens, Cole Caufield
16th – Colorado Avalanche, Alex Newhook
17th – Vegas Golden Knights, Peyton Krebs
18th – Dallas Stars, Thomas Harley
19th – Ottawa Senators (from Columbus Blue Jackets), Lassi Thomson
20th – Winnipeg Jets (from Winnipeg via New York Rangers), Ville Heinola
21st – Pittsburgh Penguins, Samuel Poulin
22nd – Los Angeles Kings (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Tobias Bjornfot
23rd – New York Islanders, Simon Holmstrom
24th – Nashville Predators, Philip Tomasino
25th – Washington Capitals, Connor McMichael
26th – Calgary Flames, Jakob Pelletier
27th – Tampa Bay Lightning, Nolan Foote
28th – Carolina Hurricanes, Ryan Suzuki
29th – Anaheim Ducks (from San Jose Sharks via Buffalo Sabres), Brayden Tracey
30th – Boston Bruins, John Beecher
31st – Buffalo Sabres (from St. Louis Blues), Ryan Johnson

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