Rick Dhaliwal and I were tipped off by reliable industry sources who linked the Canucks with interest in former Vancouver Giants blueliner Bowen Byram last week.
As a morsel, it was too delicious not to include in our latest “What We’re Hearing” piece, which we ran on Friday.
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In surfacing Byram’s name, we were hoping to illustrate the extent to which the Canucks were big-game hunting for young defenders on the trade market. We weren’t suggesting that a deal is imminent or that the Avalanche would even consider parting ways with the 20-year-old Cranbrook, B.C. native, who is on a very short list of the best blue line prospects to come out of Western Canada over the past decade.