2024 Player Report Card: Bowen Byram

Promising new addition to defense gives Buffalo hope for the future. Having just joined Buffalo during the last weeks of the regular season in exchange for forward Casey Mittelstadt, Bowen Byram has already made quite an impression. On March 7th, he became the first defenseman since Alexei Zhitnik in 1995 to score a goal in his first game with the team following a trade. It was his first shot on goal sporting a Sabres jersey that found the back of the net.