{"id":226683,"date":"2026-06-24T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226683\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:53:09","slug":"yeah-bowen-byram-might-have-made-sense-as-a-trade-target-for-the-penguins-as-a-25-year-old-left-handed-defenseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/226683\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, Bowen Byram might have made sense as a trade target for the Penguins as a 25-year-old left-handed defenseman &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, Bowen Byram\u00a0might have made sense as a trade target for the Penguins as a 25-year-old left-handed defenseman &#8230; but not if this was the price:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hliuzhdxcaa44gr.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-og=\"true\" class=\"fr-fic fr-dii\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photoCredit\">CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the fourth overall pick and 45th overall pick this summer going back to Buffalo from Chicago. The Penguins obviously don&#8217;t even have a pick that high. PuckPedia has a draft pick weight calculator tool, and even their own first-round pick this year and a first-round pick next year (assuming a mid- to late-first round pick) doesn&#8217;t match the value of the fourth overall pick this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yeah, Bowen Byram\u00a0might have made sense as a trade target for the Penguins as a 25-year-old left-handed defenseman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1902,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-226683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-penguins","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}