{"id":550220,"date":"2026-04-11T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:10:15","slug":"sabres-star-d-man-named-potential-summer-trade-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550220\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres Star D-Man Named Potential Summer Trade Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/nhl-mailbag-trade-candidates-offseason-bowen-byram-sabres-sharks-couturier-buyout-flyers-centers-matthews-tkachuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:recent mailbag for Daily Faceoff;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;recent mailbag for Daily Faceoff&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> recent mailbag for Daily Faceoff<\/a>, Anthony Di Marco named a handful of NHL trade candidates to watch during the summer. Among the players Di Marco discussed is Buffalo Sabres defenseman Bowen Byram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Buffalo Sabres are surging right now, but defenseman Bowen Byram may still ultimately want a new destination in the long run. Signing just a two-year contract extension last summer and rumored to want to have more of an opportunity to be a legit no. 1 defender, he may chase another situation,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/nhl-mailbag-trade-candidates-offseason-bowen-byram-sabres-sharks-couturier-buyout-flyers-centers-matthews-tkachuk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Di Marco wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Di Marco wrote&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Di Marco wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Byram is no stranger to being in the rumor mill, so it is easy to understand why he is being named as a potential summer trade candidate. The 24-year-old defenseman would certainly have the potential to get the Sabres a nice return in a move, as he is a young top-four blueliner having a strong year.<\/p>\n<p>Byram could be exactly the kind of trade chip the Sabres used to upgrade their roster elsewhere. The Sabres could use another top-six center or top-four right-shot defenseman.<\/p>\n<p>However, with Byram being a key part of the Sabres&#8217; defense, it would also be understandable if they keep him around. In 80 games this season, he has set new career highs with 11 goals and 42 points.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what happens between Byram and the Sabres from here. He will be a pending unrestricted free agent during the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a recent mailbag for Daily Faceoff, Anthony Di Marco named a handful of NHL trade candidates to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[10710,2031,1107,229,5133,4823,25901,5,4,1108],"class_list":{"0":"post-550220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-anthony-di-marco","9":"tag-bowen-byram","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-sabres","12":"tag-buffalosabres","13":"tag-daily-faceoff","14":"tag-di-marco","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-sabres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116385539281764589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}