Sportsnet 590 The FAN: Elliotte Friedman on the Kyper & Bourne present speaking in regards to the Buffalo Sabres RFA defenseman Bowen Byram, and what a suggestion sheet would possibly seem like.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Nick Kypreos: “What sort of quantity would a staff be taking a look at for Byron?”
Friedman: “Properly, it’s gonna be a Ufa in a yr …”
Kypreos: “11? 12?”
Friedman: “I don’t know if it will be …”
Bourne: “You speaking about thousands and thousands of {dollars}?”
Friedman: “I don’t assume it will be…”
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Kypreos: “AAV, yeah”
Friedman: “I don’t, I don’t know…”
9? However you gained’t get them at 9.”
Friedman: “Properly, seem like Provorov simply acquired eight and a half, proper? So Byram’s up there.”
Bourne: “You assume he’s that good?”
Friedman: “He will get factors, proper? Yeah.”
Kypreos: “It’ll be Sebastian Aho yet again.”
Friedman: “Factors matter.”
Kypreos: “Montreal, considering that they’ve, they went excessive sufficient, and the place, I’m sorry, the opposite manner round, proper. The place it was, like, they’re going to match. They’d match simply.”
Friedman: “I feel what they might, I feel what they might do is ….”
Bourne: “Byram had seven objectives and 38 factors.”
Kypreos: “Carolina had no bother matching Montreal’s provides to Sebastian Aho.”
Bourne: “God, Byron performed 22:42 per sport.”
Friedman: “Yeah.”
Bourne: “Did he actually?”
Kypreos: “Oh yeah, yeah.”
Friedman: “He’s a assured man.”
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Kypreos: “You solely, you solely put a suggestion sheet on if you actually assume that the opposite, Buffalo’s not going to match it. It’s the one purpose why you wish to do it.”
Bourne: “I perceive going up there. However I don’t assume buffalo needs to pay him $9 million both. Like, you already know, they’re, you’re they’re already paying (Owen) Energy and Dahlin, God is aware of how a lot per yr.”
Kypreos: “So at $9 million, isn’t it a primary, second and a 3rd, Elliotte?”
Friedman: “I’ve to double verify it, I don’t have the factor in entrance of me.”
Kypreos: “Did you’ve the dialog …”
Friedman: “However I heard with Byron, they had been fascinated by doing a one-year supply sheet, that whoever was considering of doing. They had been speaking about potential, as a result of when you signal a suggestion sheet, you may’t be traded for a yr, proper?”
Bourne: “Yeah, $9 million is a primary, a second, and a 3rd.”
Friedman: “Yeah, yeah.”
Bourne: “Above 9 three, although, it goes to 2 firsts, a second and a 3rd.”
Kypreos: “That’s not serving to buffalo …”
Friedman: “No.”
Kypreos: “a primary and second and third, proper?”
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Bourne: “No.”
Friedman: “No. They want…”
Kypreos: “There’s extra worth in him being traded.”
Friedman: “Whenever you have a look at all of the all of the provides they’d for (JJ) Peterka, I feel loads of it was, we don’t need futures. We wish, we would like it compete now. In order that they’re not . So it’s clear like there’s a strain play, being put right here on the Sabres.”
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