Sportsnet 590 The FAN: Elliotte Friedman on the Kyper & Bourne present speaking concerning the Buffalo Sabres RFA defenseman Bowen Byram, and what a suggestion sheet would possibly appear like.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Nick Kypreos: “What sort of quantity would a crew be taking a look at for Byron?”
Friedman: “Nicely, it’s gonna be a Ufa in a 12 months …”
Kypreos: “11? 12?”
Friedman: “I don’t know if it might be …”
Bourne: “You speaking about thousands and thousands of {dollars}?”
Friedman: “I don’t suppose it might be…”
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Kypreos: “AAV, yeah”
Friedman: “I don’t, I don’t know…”
9? However you received’t get them at 9.”
Friedman: “Nicely, appear like Provorov simply acquired eight and a half, proper? So Byram’s up there.”
Bourne: “You suppose he’s that good?”
Friedman: “He will get factors, proper? Yeah.”
Kypreos: “It’ll be Sebastian Aho over again.”
Friedman: “Factors matter.”
Kypreos: “Montreal, considering that they’ve, they went excessive sufficient, and the place, I’m sorry, the opposite method round, proper. The place it was, like, they’re going to match. They’d match simply.”
Friedman: “I believe what they might, I believe what they might do is ….”
Bourne: “Byram had seven objectives and 38 factors.”
Kypreos: “Carolina had no hassle matching Montreal’s presents 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 whenever you actually suppose 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 suppose buffalo desires to pay him $9 million both. Like, you recognize, they’re, you’re they’re already paying (Owen) Energy and Dahlin, God is aware of how a lot per 12 months.”
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 have been excited about doing a one-year provide sheet, that whoever was considering of doing. They have been speaking about potential, as a result of in case you signal a suggestion sheet, you may’t be traded for a 12 months, 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: “Once you take a look at all of the all of the presents that they had for (JJ) Peterka, I believe lots of it was, we don’t need futures. We would like, we would like it compete now. So that they’re not . So it’s clear like there’s a stress play, being put right here on the Sabres.”
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