{"id":137308,"date":"2023-05-08T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=137308"},"modified":"2023-05-08T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:28:42","slug":"nhl-rumours-avalanche-bowen-byram-contract-possibilites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/05\/08\/nhl-rumours-avalanche-bowen-byram-contract-possibilites\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumours: Colorado Avalanche Defenceman Contract Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another edition of NHL rumours to start your work week. We&#8217;re in the middle of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but teams are still doing work to construct their rosters. The Colorado Avalanche <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/05\/01\/defending-champions-upset-in-avalanche-vs-kraken-series\/\" target=\"_self\">were surprisingly eliminated<\/a> from the first round by the Seattle Kraken. However, the Avalanche are still primed to be a contender. They do have a number of restricted free agents they have to re-sign. Today&#8217;s NHL rumours looks at a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/byrambo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bowen Byram<\/a> contract.<\/p>\n<p>All NHL rumours come from the original source and come from the original source.<\/p>\n<h2>NHL Rumours<\/h2>\n<h3>Bowen Byram Contract Possibilites<\/h3>\n<p><em>Rumour:<\/em> The Athletic&#8217;s Peter Baugh looked into what Byram&#8217;s next contract may look like. The team has a number of RFAs on the team that need to be re-signed. Colorado has $70.2 million already allocated for the 2023-24 salary cap. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/newhoal01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Newhook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/malgide01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Denis Malgin<\/a> are also slated to be RFAs in the coming off-season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looking at what comes next: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L2uVfQk3ge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/L2uVfQk3ge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Baugh (@Peter_Baugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Peter_Baugh\/status\/1653138328311439366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One thing that could change the complexion of contract negotiations is the status of team captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/landega01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabriel Landeskog<\/a>. He makes $7 million through the end of the 2028-29 season. However, the Swede <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/10\/19\/colorado-avalanche-forward-out-long-term-with-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">missed most of the season<\/a> due to an injury. Putting Landeskog on long-term injured reserve could give Colorado a little more money to play with in signing players. The Avalanche also want to try and get something done <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2023\/05\/02\/avalanche-landeskog-offseason-free-agents-nichushkin\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in regards to an extension<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/toewsde01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devon Toews<\/a> down the way.<\/p>\n<h3>What a Bowen Byram Contract May Look Like<\/h3>\n<p>Baugh uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/dobsono01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-08_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Noah Dobson<\/a>&#8216;s contract with the New York Islanders as a template for Byram. Dobson&#8217;s deal was for three seasons at $4 million that will still have him as an RFA at the end of 2024-25. The Islanders defenceman will have arbitration rights at the end of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Byram is a part of Colorado&#8217;s future plans and management will want to get him signed. The Landeskog situation could allow for the two parties to possibly get something done long term. However, the Dobson-type deal might be the best play for the two sides since the cap may only go up $1 million.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: \u00a0Steven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another edition of NHL rumours to start your work week. We&#8217;re in the middle of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but teams are still doing work to construct their rosters. The Colorado Avalanche were surprisingly eliminated from the first round by the Seattle Kraken. However, the Avalanche are still primed to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":137309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4321,28,4547,4548],"tags":[3509,7153,141,2718],"class_list":["post-137308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-avalanche","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-bowen-byram","tag-colorado-avalanche-rumours","tag-gabriel-landeskog","tag-noah-dobson"],"modified_by":"Luiza Vidal, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}