Speculation: Is Bowen Byram available? or will be? Lots of speculation about him from the "insiders"

[Goptor]

Adams doesn't see a difference between LHD and RHD.
To him, Byram is a valuable top4 Dman on a team with 3 top4 Dmen.

You'll have to wait until Adams is fired for Byram to become available.

 

[Albatros]

All our top 4 D are left-handed now, but they play well. Dahlin is more comfortable on the right-side, Byram plays with him in the first pair and so far it works.

No matter how comfortable they are with the position personally, their handedness will still go against a lot of plays and the opponent can count on that when their only RHD options are the rather limited Jokiharju and Clifton. I find it would be very helpful to have at least one to be able to mix it up when needed, even if Dahlin would still play the bigger minutes on the right.

 

[johnnybbadd]

For the 1000th time Dahlin is very comfortable playing on the right side. They could use another right shot D because Jokiharju is the one that is not good enough to be in the top 4. Byram is fine and has a future in the Sabres top 4 for the foreseeable future.

 

[Fjordy]

No matter how comfortable they are with the position personally, their handedness will still go against a lot of plays and the opponent can count on that when their only RHD options are the rather limited Jokiharju and Clifton. I find it would be very helpful to have at least one to be able to mix it up when needed, even if Dahlin would still play the bigger minutes on the right.

I agree with this, at least one top 4 RD would be useful to us, who is good at defense and at PK, but in general Dahlin himself said that it is more convenient for him to play on RD, and he had his best season when he mainly played on RD.

Byram - Dahlin
Power - xxxx

Right now Bryson is playing with Power, Power has no chemistry with Jokiharju, we don't know what Bryson will look like with a bigger sample. Someone like Murphy/Manson (defender type) would probably be good for us to play with Power.

 

[TageGod]

In short, not yet.

 

[tsujimoto74]

No matter how comfortable they are with the position personally, their handedness will still go against a lot of plays and the opponent can count on that when their only RHD options are the rather limited Jokiharju and Clifton. I find it would be very helpful to have at least one to be able to mix it up when needed, even if Dahlin would still play the bigger minutes on the right.

The entire team is better when Dahlin is on the right. I would like a better RHD than Clifton somewhere in the line-up, but 3/4 of the Sabres top 4 are going to be lefties as long as Dahlin is on the team (presuming whoever’s coaching them is trying to win games).