Confirmed with Link: Avs Sign Byram to ELC

[RockLobster]

It's the Avs...

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[Mighty Makar]

Sweet!

 

[AvsRobin]

Formality but nice to have it done.

 

[Richard88]

Is it safe to say that this wouldn't happen unless the plan was for Byram to stay up this entire season?

Girard ---- Johnson
Zadorov -- Makar
Byram ---- Connauton/Cole
(Graves)

AHL: Barberio / Timmins / Meloche / Rosén

 

[SI90]

So jealous of this pick. Love Byram. He’s going to be a monster. Avs killed the first round. Got 2 of my favorite players.

 

[Muffin]

Is it safe to say that this wouldn't happen unless the plan was for Byram to stay up this entire season?

Girard ---- Johnson
Zadorov -- Makar
Byram ---- Connauton/Cole
(Graves)

AHL: Barberio / Timmins / Meloche / Rosén

No, he can still go back to Junior if he plays less than 10 games without burning a year off his ELC. College players can't go back to college if they sign with their NHL team.

 

[Richard88]

I like the fact that the expiration of Byram's ELC doesn't coincide with Mackinnon's contract year (presuming that he stay up this season).

In fact, it's nice that the contracts of all our core players are quite staggered/spread across the next 4 years:

2020

• Girard
• Zadorov
• Jost
• Francouz

• + Burakovsky; Wilson; Nieto; Meloche; Graves; Connauton; Barberio

2021

• Landeskog
• Makar
• Timmins
• Grubauer

• + Calvert; Cole; Bellemare; Rosén; Werner

2022

• Kadri
• Byram
• Bowers
• Kaut

2023

• Mackinnon
• Johnson
• Donskoi
• Compher

• + Newhook?

 

[Richard88]

No, he can still go back to Junior if he plays less than 10 games without burning a year off his ELC. College players can't go back to college if they sign with their NHL team.

Thanks for clarifying.

 

[henchman21]

Is it safe to say that this wouldn't happen unless the plan was for Byram to stay up this entire season?

Pretty much all higher picks sign early if it doesn't hurt their eligibility somewhere else.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Kids gonna be on the roster all year.

 

[flyfysher]

Is it safe to say that this wouldn't happen unless the plan was for Byram to stay up this entire season?

Girard ---- Johnson
Zadorov -- Makar
Byram ---- Connauton/Cole
(Graves)

AHL: Barberio / Timmins / Meloche / Rosén

How the heck did we get this D? This is exciting. I'm used to the likes of Beauchemin, Hunwick, Zanon, etc. and being punished for being an Avs fan.

 

[the_fan]

Yeah he's sticking with the Avs all season. Sending him back to junior hockey doesn't do much good for his development.

 

[flyfysher]

I like the fact that the expiration of Byram's ELC doesn't coincide with Mackinnon's contract year (presuming that he stay up this season).

In fact, it's nice that the contracts of all our core players are quite staggered/spread across the next 4 years:6

2020

• Girard
• Zadorov
• Jost
• Francouz

• + Burakovsky; Wilson; Nieto; Meloche; Graves; Connauton; Barberio

2021

• Landeskog
• Makar
• Timmins
• Grubauer

• + Calvert; Cole; Bellemare; Rosén; Werner

2022

• Kadri
• Byram
• Bowers
• Kaut

2023

• Mackinnon
• Johnson
• Donskoi
• Compher

• + Newhook?

This post should be copied to the Sakic's record as GM thread.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Friiiiidaay

 

[UncleRisto]

Too much term Sakic for f***'s sake.

 

[the_fan]

How the heck did we get this D? This is exciting. I'm used to the likes of Beauchemin, Hunwick, Zanon, etc. and being punished for being an Avs fan.

By sucking for a decade

 

[flyfysher]

By sucking for a decade

What a blur!

That's the Rocky Mountain High. Time flies by.

 

[S E P H]

By sucking for a decade

Byram came from Ottawa's pick though...
Zadorov came from the Ryan O'Reilly - who was a second round pick - trade...
EJ came from the MBP trade...
Barrie came from drafting him past the first round...
Timmins is a 2nd round pick...

Only players who we got from sucking for a decade is Samuel Girard when we picked Duchene 3rd overall (which was the start of the rebuild) and Cale Makar (where Roy quit on the club three weeks before training camp).

 

[AvsFanInMichigan]

I think he plays the whole year with us and absolutely kills it

 

[henchman21]

Byram came from Ottawa's pick though...
Zadorov came from the Ryan O'Reilly - who was a second round pick - trade...
EJ came from the MBP trade...
Barrie came from drafting him past the first round...
Timmins is a 2nd round pick...

Only players who we got from sucking for a decade is Samuel Girard when we picked Duchene 3rd overall (which was the start of the rebuild) and Cale Makar (where Roy quit on the club three weeks before training camp).

If you're going to use that logic, Byram comes from that too.

 

[AvsFanInMichigan]

Great contract he's way better then kerf......... oh wait this isn't the JT Compher thread and there are no leaf fans here.

 

[S E P H]

If you're going to use that logic, Byram comes from that too.

We needed Ottawa to suck though, so it's not as easy as to say we've sucked for an entire decade when it was out of our hands. I mean we did suck for an entire decade, no need to hide that fact and we find our team is now in that position because of high-end 1st and 2nd round picks. But I wouldn't directly put Byram here because of the Matt Duchene trade even though that is the trade's history. Ottawa gave us Byram because of their own ineptitude, when they made the trade they were thinking the pick would be somewhere around 17th to 23rd.

 

[Spleenless Wonder21]

How the heck did we get this D?

By sucking for a decade

 

[sethro109]

Great contract he's way better then kerf......... oh wait this isn't the JT Compher thread and there are no leaf fans here.

If you invoke thier name they will appear in mass with spreadsheets and charts.

 

[Avsavsavsavsavs]

Absolute over-payment and the term is just unbelievably bad. Sakic strikes out again. Not as good as Kerfoot.