{"id":353369,"date":"2026-06-19T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=353369"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:36:38","slug":"nhl-rumors-bowen-byram-desires-to-be-a-top-defenseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/nhl-rumors-bowen-byram-desires-to-be-a-top-defenseman\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumors: Bowen Byram Desires to be a Top Defenseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 id=\"teams-are-interested-in-sabres-defenseman-bowen-byram\"><strong>Teams are occupied with Sabres defenseman Bowen Byram<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/2067611103090139253\">Darren Dreger<\/a><\/strong>: There are multiple teams talking to the Buffalo Sabres about defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/byrambo01.html?utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_source=nhlrumors.com&#038;utm_campaign=2026-06-19_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bowen Byram<\/a>. He one 12 months left on his contract and can be a pending UFA after next season. With agent Darren Ferris\u2019 history of taking his clients to free agency, there&#8217;s some motivation for the Sabres to maneuver him.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mndamico\/status\/2067612892644397449\">Marco D\u2019Amico<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cThis either ends in an enormous payday for Bowen Byram on July 1st, or a trade to a destination of alternative where he would likely extend long-term and be a top-pair D. Can be surprising to see a club pay an enormous trade haul for less than one guaranteed 12 months.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"bowen-byram-wants-a-shot-at-being-a-top-dman\"><strong>Bowen Byram wants a shot at being a top Dman<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/2067694441880576439\"><strong>Frank Seravalli<\/strong><\/a>: Frank Seravalli and John Buccigross, on Buffalo Sabres defenseman Bowen Byram.<\/p>\n<p><em>** NHLRumors.com transcription<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nhlrumors.com\/what-the-toronto-maple-leafs-would-want-in-return-for-matthew-knies-is\/2026\/06\/18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What the Toronto Maple Leafs Would Want in Return for Matthew Knies Is \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seravalli: \u201cThis has nothing to do with money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buccigross: \u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seravalli: \u201cHas nothing to do with place. Bowen Byram likes Buffalo. He likes his teammates. He likes the trajectory of the Sabres. This has every little thing to do with opportunity and a continuing challenge, as I understand it, that exists inside Bowen Byron.<\/p>\n<p>He sees himself as a primary defenseman within the NHL. And watching him in these playoffs, it\u2019s hard to argue that that\u2019s not the case. So, in case you consider where he\u2019s been in his profession, an early Stanley Cup winner, he, regardless of what, he was all the time going to be behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/makarca01.html?utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_source=nhlrumors.com&#038;utm_campaign=2026-06-19_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cale Makar<\/a> in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s that Bowen Byram is a believer in himself, and he\u2019s got this drumbeat that claims, \u2018I might be that guy.\u2019 And I believe he can. Other teams think he can. Now it\u2019s about attending to a spot where he can actually get the chance to prove it, and there\u2019s plenty of teams that may like to search out out if a 21, 25 12 months old who can play on either side of the blue line can do this for his or her team and be their primary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buccigross: \u201cAbsolutely, the list is so long. Again, a dynamic player, an excellent age to get the max starting next 12 months, which could be seven years for him if he stays with that team that he\u2019s on, and I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll finagle it, so it\u2019s a seven-year deal. Like I said, around 10, I believe that\u2019s the place to begin for him. We\u2019ll see what he does this 12 months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nhlrumors.com\/nhl-rumors-buffalo-sabres-and-the-st-louis-blues-4\/2026\/06\/16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NHL Rumors: Buffalo Sabres, and the St. Louis Blues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But yeah, I mean, whether it\u2019s, you understand, Kyle Dubas in Pittsburgh. Or whether it\u2019s, you understand, the Recent York Rangers. Whether it\u2019s, prefer it\u2019s there\u2019s every kind of those, and again, you don\u2019t know where he, does he wish to play out west? That it may very well be somewhere on the market as well. Does he wish to play in Canada? Like, There\u2019s definitely, it\u2019s the Toronto Maple Leafs may very well be, like wherever it&#8217;s, like he, he\u2019s going to be very talked-about, very talked-about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We needed to restart our X account. 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With agent Darren Ferris\u2019 history of taking his clients to free agency, there&#8217;s some motivation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[7635,23924,10592,649,1296,1111],"class_list":["post-353369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bowen","tag-byram","tag-defenseman","tag-nhl","tag-rumors","tag-top"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353372,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353369\/revisions\/353372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}