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Also he’s been really good for a weaker Giants team so it’s really just one person freaking out over his most basic statistical profile 
LD Bowen Byram - Vancouver Giants, WHL (2019, 4th, COL)
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Lemonlimey
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This year is all about the WJC for him. Can he show a maturing defensive style, along with his standard offensive instinct, at a higher level. He’s a cocky kid, let’s see if that raises his game.
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Pip
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From my viewings he is not fully engaged every game like last year and when he is, he is trying to do too much. Still a very dominant player. The Giants are much worse offensively and defensively compared to last year as well.
Ararana
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IMO Byram was the third best talent in the draft. Avs were lucky Chicago fell in love with Dach, though honestly time will tell.
avsfan09
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He’s probably arguable with Dach but I also agree Dach has a higher end potential and likely ends up better.
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avsfan09
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Tbh you could argue any of Cozens, Turcotte, Zegras Pokolzin ect but it’s stupid really to do so we have only our opinions to go off really and we’re years away from judging that draft.
TopT
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agree, so its kind of hard to say the avs were "lucky" he fell to 4
avsfan09
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Agreed but they are usually a very good poster imo so I assume they are just excited and think highly of Byram.
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Ararana
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If you're talking about me then dawww thanks. And yes I'm rather higher on Byram than the average bear. I was long before the Avs drafted him so it's not 100% bias. Byram in Chicago would have been my nightmare.
No it dosent. It means that Colorado was lucky that he was still there at 4.
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TopT
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it kind of does, unless you are suggesting avs were lucky to get the worse player
TopT
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not from what we are seeing right now and BTW I think Turcotte will be best of those 3
No it dosent...... in a nother year he might have been taken higher. It was also lucky that Chicago is having a lot of good d prospects, so that they wanted a forward.
TopT
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in another year he might have been taken much much lower, like in 2020, so dont get your point; teams take BPA doesnt matter if its forward or D
TheGoldenJet
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Its early, but Dach looks to be a better pick than Byram right now.
Yes he might have been taken lower another season but colorado isnt going to draft in the. Topp 10 next year. I love BPA..... can you define how a team values BPA. Because that is different from team to team so we cant say that Chicagos need for forwards didnt have anything to do with their pick.
We'll see. It is hard to say anything definitive about any prospect from the 2019 draft at this point. We should check back in a couple of years as we should have a better idea at that time (although that still may be early in the process). I realize that this would go against the grain on these boards.
At this time last year, many people thought that Colorado had the weakest prospect/player from the top-5 selections of the 2017 draft.
Sure he does. As we all know, progress is linear, especially when comparing forwards to defensemen.
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