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Originally Posted by Zarley
Waiving Byron was mind numbingly stupid. It's as if he was listing to the fools on CP that were complaining about missed breakaways rather than realizing that he was one of the only players on the team consistently generating turnovers on the forecheck. It was just a bizarre decision - Raymond was the obvious choice to waive at that time.
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Raymond was waived WITH Byron. Also, only one of the two needed to be waived. Byron was coming off surgery for several broken things, a high ankle sprain etc. and a terrible camp. I believe management commented they wanted waiver flexibility and also give Byron the ability to have a recovery in the minors. Byron literally spent a bit of time recovering with the Canadiens club prior to playing his first game. Byron likely would have cleared waivers too if Kassian had not been involved in his incident.
I mean it's a moot point, because management didn't need to waive him and actually intended to send Byron down as something like a conditioning stint. It wasn't bizarre. It was logical.