{"id":726881,"date":"2026-06-26T08:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/726881\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:44:13","slug":"report-sabres-had-bidding-war-for-byram-between-3-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/726881\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Sabres Had Bidding War For Byram Between 3 Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Social Media Feature Preview\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HKvIDWtaUAA9NLV.jpeg\"\/>The Buffalo Sabres landed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhltraderumors.me\/2026\/06\/report-blackhawks-sabres-blockbuster.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a stunning haul for defenseman Bowen Byram<\/a> this week, scoring the 4th overall pick in Friday&#8217;s NHL Draft, a second-rounder, plus the under-the-radar pickup of 6&#8217;8&#8243; D-man Louis Crevier, while also unloading the contract of\u00a0Jordan Greenway.\u00a0Now we&#8217;re learning why the cost to acquire Byram was so high. According to insider <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3Il0n20b47mcHqrzysdbYr?si=4cd79af06f4e4b05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elliotte Friedman, on The Fan Hockey Show<\/a>, Sabres GM Jarmo Kekalainen had a nice bidding war going amongst the Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers and San Jose Sharks:Buffalo knew it had at least three teams that wanted the player really badly&#8230; Kekalainen must&#8217;ve been sitting there, saying, &#8216;Alright, throw another log on the fire guys&#8217;&#8230; &#8216;I&#8217;ve got this, what are you going to do to beat it?, I&#8217;ve got this (now)&#8230;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He had three teams: the Sharks had the 9th (overall pick) after they traded for it, the Rangers have got (the No. 5 pick), and Chicago&#8217;s there with #4. And I think (Buffalo) just sat there and did what a team is supposed to do\u2014they played them all off each other and got the best pick he could. <\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks obviously feel that Byram, 25, has another level to get to, as the player feels himself. Byram has never been a No. 1 guy on the blueline, but when you&#8217;ve played behind, first, Cale Makar in Colorado, and then Rasmus Dahlin in Buffalo, there aren&#8217;t really many defensemen in the league who would have been, in those situations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Chicago, Byram will get a chance to be that guy. He&#8217;ll quarterback the power play, he&#8217;ll log oodles of ice time, and the Hawks are hoping he just runs (skates) with it. Bo knows he can do it, now he&#8217;ll get that opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Byram is up for an extension on July 1, with one year remaining on his deal. It&#8217;s expected that he&#8217;ll be looking for north of $10M on an AAV, and the Blackhawks, after winning that bidding war, will certainly have to come to terms and show him the money.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Social Media Feature Preview\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nhltraderumors.me\/2026\/06\/REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_X_IMAGE_ADDRESS\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres landed a stunning haul for defenseman Bowen Byram this week, scoring the 4th overall pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-726881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}