Taking players off of waivers or putting them on waivers always comes with a risk. Sometimes a team can capitalize on an opportunity where a player needs to be sent down to the minors but needs waivers to do it. But most of the time, someone goes on the wire without any chance of having too much success elsewhere even if they are claimed. Fortunately for the Montreal Canadiens, that didn’t happen with Paul Byron.
Byron will go down as one of the “waiver claim gone right” stories in the league for years to come.