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Not that I don’t agree with you, but to be fair that’s not uncommon in NHL circles. Hasnt everbody’s darling Dudley lived in Buffalo his entire stint with the Panthers and even earlier?

You know who else who had terrible underlying stats away from Dahlin? Jake Sanderson and Mortiz Seider For a little apples to apples: These are Byram's numbers with Dahlin GF% 70, xG% 53.1, SA% 54.2% These are Byram's numbers with Power GF% 50, xG% 42.6, SA% 51.7% These are Byram's numbers with Clifton GF% 50.4, xG% 46.4% SA% 41.8% These are Sanderson's number with his #1 guy, Zub GF% 47.4, xG% 56.3, SA% 51.2 These are Sanderson's number with his #2 guy, Hamonic GF% 23.8, xG% 46.2, SA% 47.3 These are Sanderson's number with his #3 guy, Jensen GF% 49.3, xG% 57.1, SA% 49.4 These are Seider's number with his #1 guy, Chiarot GF% 49.2, xG% 47.1, SA% 46.6 These are Seider's number with his #2 guy, Edvinsson GF% 62.5, xG% 51.6, SA% 53.3 These are Seider's number with his #3 guy, Holl GF% 0, xG% 60.7, SA% 56.6 Young D playing 1st-pairing minutes on mediocre teams don't typically have great analytics. For some reason Byram is held to a different standard. 🤷‍♂️ Exactly

Because this is a list of defencemen whose PP production helped them get paid. The entire point of the post was to show the coin Byram might be able to access if he got a shot on the PP to pad his stats.

it's more like wanting to be on a team where he gets the opportunity. You don't get the big bucks without the big points. And you don't get the big points without being on the power play. Byram doesn't play on the power play and won't as long as he's on a team with Dahlin. ES points: Fox 40 $9.5M Karlsson 38 $11.5M Carlson 37 $8M Chabot 37 $8M Byram 35 RFA Chychrun 32 $9M Montour 30 $7.1M Pietrangelo 29 $8.8M Sergachev 29 $8.5M Dobson 26 RFA Burns 26 $8M Hamilton 25 $9M Sanderson 23 $8M Seider 22 $8.5M Josi 21 $9M Look at those numbers and you can see his point.

He's on 5-year run as a Panther advisor, his longest stint with one franchise. Maybe he's settling down in his 70s? VP Canes 2 years VP Habs 4 years AGM Habs 2 years Director player personnel Leafs 1 year GM Thrashers 1 year AGM Thrashers 1 year AGM Hawks 2 years DPP Hawks 2 years GM Panthers 2 years GM Lightning 2.5 years GM Senators 1 year That's a lot of change, but he keeps getting hired.

This is what gets me shaking my head about the Byram conversation. Never mind what “kind” of defenceman he is, he was the team’s 2nd-best defenceman and +11 at 23 minutes night. They’re going to get 3 better defenceman than that this summer? I don’t think they’ve had three better defencemen than that in the last decade.

Wookiee had it. Appert was from Seravalli, Karmanos from Lysowski, Ventura speculation since he’s Karmanos’ guy.

I wonder if the Karmanos/Adams promotion plan was part of an office power play that Kevyn won. And let's be clear here: the new advisor won't be adding to the brain trust, he'll be replacing the only proven NHL executive in the Sabre front office.

I mean, I don't disagree with your point in general. But the "news" of the past 24 hours is this: Keeping the bad GM Planning to hire his potential replacement to 'advise' him Likely losing the associate GM with 3 Stanley Cups and 25 years experience Potentially losing the touted head of the analytics department (i.e. the only other credentialed guy in head office) Giving the chatty, smiley, not-great 1st-year assistant coach with the hair greater say in player personnel Hiring a completely inexperienced friend of the GM as his new right-hand Trading the #2 defenceman Not sure how any of this makes us better. More sure how it could make us worse. Is it becoming clear yet to you on how Kevyn sold Terry of his plan?

And here it is https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/briefings/hate-is-hate

Quite like the logo, don't mind the name.

Seriously, it seems so obvious. It's about giving Terry a safety net and a chance to get to know him.

Is he? I don't remember that.

I despised the way Staal played for the Sabres. My feelings for him otherwise are completely neutral. Wherever the angst comes from, I must have been out of the room 🤷‍♂️ I mean the hiring itself is pretty typical old boy NHL stuff: Yzerman, Sakic, Lafontaine, Neely, Shanahan, Francis, Blake — the number of former stars hired for these kinda positions to get their feet wet in management for no other reason than their connections is long and well-walked. i doubt he brings much, but I'd rather this than not this.

I don't. if you are Jarmo, or Kenny Holland, or Pierre Dorion, or God knows who, this might be your fastest ticket back to a GM seat. If Adams succeeds, you can sell yourself as a guy who helped finally turn it around in Buffalo. If he doesn't you could find yourself steering the ship by Christmas. Short of an actual GM job offer, or a similar offer from a better franchise, this is a great opportunity.

Mike? Inside info, or a feeling? is his contract up in St. Louis? I could see it, given organizational connections and trends, and the need to replace Wilford.

Glad they are adding more minds and eyes to the hockey department. Not surprised to see it's another guy from Kevyn's existing circle and doubt there was any kind of search. (Sigh)

Thanks. I guess I should never be surprised when the unopened package is preferred to the imperfect one. i don't understand the amount of Sabre fans who seem to consider Byram to be another Colin Miller. I guess i should be hoping that they're right, but that some NHL GM agrees with me and pays a fortune for him.

Really? Why?

Pretty clearly no, from your examples when you see what Risto, Montour, and Sergachev were traded for, and the other two guys are the league's best defencemen. The 40-point guys at that age by and large are studs. Especially when you factor in the PP time, as you point out, and realize that Byram would likely have been a 50-point-plus player had he been used on a #1 PP.

This is what I was getting at elsewhere about the Cozens/ Norris trade being a template and tipping us off on Adams' intentions. Sell off the guys Lindy doesn't like in an 'our depreciated asset for your depreciated asset' kinda fashion. How can you exchange Quinn, Samuelsson and UPL for guys who can fill their slots, but be better? Basically use the Buffalo stink to his advantage while his guys still have fans and sweeten the deal with an extra 2nd or an Isak Rosen if you need to to make it work.

The implication was he's going home to stay with his parents for the summer and doesn't expect to come back,. Why leave your stuff and keep the lease when you've been led to believe you're going to be traded? Not saying you're wrong, just passing along the counter-argument. I got the impression Rivet got an info dump from over the weekend from someone he thinks might know things and was sharing what he's been told. As @Flashsabre said, the other tidbit was Quinn being shopped.

I really think Adams will try to reverse the Eichel trade by buying low on the depreciated 1st-line centre asset that is Elias Pettersson. It just fits. I just hope it's going to be for an Eichel-like price (Norris, Östlund, '26 1st?), not something stupid like Byram, Norris and #9

What is the position of weakness? Why does Adams have to take a ***** offer? Why will the offers be *****? Are 23-year-old 40-point defencemen a dime a dozen in the NHL? He had career numbers offensively and defensively and shook off the injury concerns. Personally, if Byram's value was a 25-year-old RFA 60-point centre a year ago, I can't imagine it is any less than that now.

Peters called Rivet out for exactly this.