‘”It’s probably no secret that I’ve been working for a couple years to find a defenseman and it’s really, really tough in this league to find a top-pair kind of talent that Bo Byram is at that age,” Adams said of the 22-year-old. “You generally have to draft them. So, these are really, really difficult trades to make. It was something that I’d say I worked on for a while.”‘
Sabres takeaways: Search for 'top-pair' defenseman led to blockbuster trade
Source: Buffalo News