Bo Byram ultimate final prediction

[JP51]

OK while we are all waiting for our next step in FA... Interested in your thoughts on ultimately how does the BB situation resolve itself...  I am thinking trade for mostly picks and a fringe player... but would not be surprised if we let him get offer sheeted....  Wanna know what you think and if you do think there is a trade for players... who might those be.  And just to be clear on the offer sheeted... that could mean depending on the offer we take the pics OR we match and trade. 

Edited 9 hours ago by JP51

[Carmel Corn]

Bridge deal….and then we’ll lose him eventually when he becomes a UFA.

[JP51]

1 minute ago, Carmel Corn said:

Bridge deal….and then we’ll lose him eventually when he becomes a UFA.

That would be a Sabres gonna Sabre... move lol 

[Thorny]

•Keep the open cap to “defend” against offer sheet 

•Intentionally ink Byram to bridge extension later in offseason than necessary after doing so

•claim they didn’t have the functionality to operate during peak transaction periods and thus leave remaining cap unspent

•try to win, now that we’ve prioritized spending less 

[tom webster]

Why would Byram sign any kind of a bridge deal when he can sign an offer sheet worth over $7M?

[JP51]

3 minutes ago, Thorny said:

•Keep the open cap to “defend” against offer sheet 

•Intentionally ink Byram to bridge extension later in offseason than necessary after doing so

•claim they didn’t have the functionality to operate during peak transaction periods and thus leave remaining cap unspent

•try to win, now that we’ve prioritized spending less 

right thats what I got out of the press conference... we are not going to sign players and reduce payroll to keep our cap space down so we can yank around with Bo in case we want to resign him... sounds like a plan... 

1 minute ago, tom webster said:

Why would Byram sign any kind of a bridge deal when he can sign an offer sheet worth over $7M?

I do not see a bridge deal getting done unless its a huge overpay. 

[Thorny]

6 minutes ago, JP51 said:

right thats what I got out of the press conference... we are not going to sign players and reduce payroll to keep our cap space down so we can yank around with Bo in case we want to resign him... sounds like a plan... 

I do not see a bridge deal getting done unless it’s a huge overpay. 

(No one is actually coming to offer Byram a massive offer sheet) 

[Eleven]

23 minutes ago, tom webster said:

Why would Byram sign any kind of a bridge deal when he can sign an offer sheet worth over $7M?

I can think of two reasons:

1.  He doesn't get an offer sheet worth over 7M,

2.  He gets an offer sheet of 8M with lots of term but thinks that he'll be able to get more than that in two years.

[Weave]

He is gonna be traded to Calgary in an uninspiring trade for a lesser player or two and a lottery ticket that will be in the later half of whatever round its in.

[tom webster]

2 minutes ago, Eleven said:

I can think of two reasons:

1.  He doesn't get an offer sheet worth over 7M,

2.  He gets an offer sheet of 8M with lots of term but thinks that he'll be able to get more than that in two years.

Those are two valid reasons but neither seems likely. 

[Drag0nDan]

Just now, Eleven said:

I can think of two reasons:

1.  He doesn't get an offer sheet worth over 7M,

2.  He gets an offer sheet of 8M with lots of term but thinks that he'll be able to get more than that in two years.

From what i remember they divide the offer sheet total by 5 to determine draft compensation, so i doubt there would be a team offering a ton of term.  So like 6yr 48M would be - 9.6M AAV which bumps up the compensation to 2 1sts, 1 2nd, and 1 3rd.  

[Thorny]

8 minutes ago, Weave said:

He is gonna be traded to Calgary in an uninspiring trade for a lesser player or two and a lottery ticket that will be in the later half of whatever round its in.

And some will argue he “did the best he could given the circumstances”

[Second Line Center]

43 minutes ago, Carmel Corn said:

Bridge deal….and then we’ll lose him eventually when he becomes a UFA.

 

Can always trade him at the deadline. 
 

Assuming we are out of a playoff chase.  
 

If not, we keep him.  Maybe he’s happier we’re winning and agrees to an extension.  
 

Win win.  Idk.  

[Weave]

7 minutes ago, Thorny said:

And some will argue he “did the best he could given the circumstances”

I mean….. there is accuracy in that statement.  But only because the guy pulling the rope is a 65lb weakling. He pretty much created the circumstances.

[LabattBlue]

If I am Byram, I don’t even consider an offer sheet.   He wants to be a top pair blueliner with PP1 time.  Go to KA and tap out.  If he won’t trade him, sign for minimum term to UFA, and then GTFO of sabrehood(WTF is this anyways). 
 

The organ-eye-zation deserves nothing more from their players. 

[Eleven]

13 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

If I am Byram, I don’t even consider an offer sheet.   He wants to be a top pair blueliner with PP1 time.  Go to KA and tap out.  If he won’t trade him, sign for minimum term to UFA, and then GTFO of sabrehood(WTF is this anyways). 
 

The organ-eye-zation deserves nothing more from their players. 

Understood that he wants PP1 time, but that virtually means that he has to be the top offensive defenseman on a team, since most teams use a 4F 1D PP1.  Where's he going to be that?

[Eleven]

28 minutes ago, Drag0nDan said:

From what i remember they divide the offer sheet total by 5 to determine draft compensation, so i doubt there would be a team offering a ton of term.  So like 6yr 48M would be - 9.6M AAV which bumps up the compensation to 2 1sts, 1 2nd, and 1 3rd.  

You may have a good point here; I don't remember how this works.

[Carmel Corn]

2 minutes ago, Eleven said:

Understood that he wants PP1 time, but that virtually means that he has to be the top offensive defenseman on a team, since most teams use a 4F 1D PP1.  Where's he going to be that?

Injury to Dahlin or Power is his only chance I guess….that said, I wouldn’t mind seeing the team try an old fashioned 3F 2D PP unit.

[Weave]

4 minutes ago, Carmel Corn said:

Injury to Dahlin or Power is his only chance I guess….that said, I wouldn’t mind seeing the team try an old fashioned 3F 2D PP unit.

Given the depth of high end offensive skill on our blue line, its kind of ridiculous that we haven’t leveraged that on our powerplay.  FFS every high end passer on this team is on defense.

[Eleven]

14 minutes ago, Carmel Corn said:

Injury to Dahlin or Power is his only chance I guess….that said, I wouldn’t mind seeing the team try an old fashioned 3F 2D PP unit.

I wouldn't either.  

And I don't think he's going to be the #1 defenseman on too many other teams.

[Crusader1969]

You trade him and create a hole you can't fill on D. Sign him for 2 years, play him with Dahlin.  See what happens

As for the forwards.  The Sabres are a draft and develop team it's time for one of their high draft picks to grab the bull by the horns and take a spot in the top 6

Quinn - we know he can do it. Hopefully becomes the player we thought he would be prior to injuries 

or Rosen -  This is it for him.  Hopefully not a tweener (AHL / NHL) but he has to show it this year

Helenius - has a shot, they said he was close coming into last year... probably starts in AHL but hopefully takes a big step forward 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[thewookie1]

2 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

You trade him and create a hole you can't fill on D. Sign him for 2 years, play him with Dahlin.  See what happens

As for the forwards.  The Sabres are a draft and develop team it's time for one of their high draft picks to grab the bull by the horns and take a spot in the top 6

Quinn - we know he can do it. Hopefully becomes the player we thought he would be prior to injuries 

or Rosen -  This is it for him.  Hopefully not a tweener (AHL / NHL) but he has to show it this year

Helenius - has a shot, they said he was close coming into last year... probably starts in AHL but hopefully takes a big step forward 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can’t sign him 2 years or he walks to UFA

[SabresBillsFan]

If this team had any idea of how to build a team I would feel much better about this situation but Adams doesn’t have a clue. To me this will be a defining moment in Adams tenure as a GM. If he gets next to nothing back for him then he needs to be removed immediately!

[Dr. Who]

12 minutes ago, Crusader1969 said:

You trade him and create a hole you can't fill on D. Sign him for 2 years, play him with Dahlin.  See what happens

As for the forwards.  The Sabres are a draft and develop team it's time for one of their high draft picks to grab the bull by the horns and take a spot in the top 6

Quinn - we know he can do it. Hopefully becomes the player we thought he would be prior to injuries 

or Rosen -  This is it for him.  Hopefully not a tweener (AHL / NHL) but he has to show it this year

Helenius - has a shot, they said he was close coming into last year... probably starts in AHL but hopefully takes a big step forward 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think Rosen is a tweener. It's a year early for Helenius. They're betting on Quinn. 

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There is no offer sheet. It's a canard.