NHL Insider Sparks Unfair Speculation About Blackhawks’ Bowen Byram

Bowen Byram has not gotten off to a good start to his tenure with the Chicago Blackhawks. That’s an objective fact. The playmaking defenseman isn’t making many plays after being traded from the Buffalo Sabres and then signed to a big contract extension. And yes, it’s always fair to consider these athletes as human beings with lives beyond the ice, too. That’s always a factor in how a given player is performing at a given time. But recent comments by an NHL insider may have gone a little overboard as far as sharing information about Byram.