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Originally Posted by TOfan
Couldn’t relocate it but there was another comment or two that Byram has been propped up by Dahlin.
To your point though, not only do the Flames have a great analytics department, I’m fairly confident that the Flames have also given quite a bit of thought to where and who Byram would play with. If the trade does happen, as well as the inevitable Andersson trade, you’re looking at:
Byram-Weegar
Bahl-Parekh
Hanley-Pachal
Not a bad top 4, IMO. ‘Propped up’ to me is a somewhat redundant/meaningless term. How many D-men league wide don’t benefit from their partner? As bad as we like to think some of them are, very few offer nothing or next to nothing and I would have a real hard time believing Byram was one of them.
All that said, I’m not including any pick in the first two rounds for Byram. If there’s a player for player deal, I’m a lot more interested.
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The stats say stay away from Byram, but he is a 23-year-old D (last season) who was stuck behind elite D and has battled injuries. Not all D are Makar, Orr or Doughty. It's quite common that superstar D take a few years to develop and more are average 23 years old and younger and 24 is a age that we could see a huge step from Byram, especially considering the missed games early in his career.
I see his ceiling being better than Anderson and likely will just be a good D in the range of Ras or Hanifin.
If the contract is similar to their ask and we can add him without giving up a 1st (Buffalo doesn't want them anyways), we should be all over this.
Other than Parekh, we do not have any other D prospect that is a top 50 calibre prospect. We have Weegar, Hanley, Pachal who are over 30 or just depth players. I like our D as a whole, but we are not loaded to the point where adding Byram doesn't make sense.
Unless Zary moves to center, he can be involved in this trade as we are no question loaded on the wing. D and C are the most important position when building, we add Byram, and we could be landing a star that hasn't broke out yet.
With Frost signing, I just don't see Zary at center unless we have injuries.