Word came down this morning that the Montreal Canadiens have claimed forward Paul Byron from waivers. The 26 year old RW/C was set to earn just $900k this season.
It's a minor blow to the Flames depth to lose Byron. Though he's well known for getting - and missing - break aways, Byron was the ideal bottom-six player in many ways: he could play multiple positions, he was an excellent penalty killer and he could drive possession, even bad circumstances.
Byron was probably never going to be a big scorer in the league (though I suspect his SH% is going to rebound at some point), but he was a handy swiss army knife type player to have in the arsenal.