Lyndon Byers
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| Lyndon Byers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Byers in 2013 | |||
| Born |
February 29, 1964 Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Canada | ||
| Died |
July 4, 2025 (aged 61) Norwood, Massachusetts, U.S. | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||
| Weight | 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st 4 lb) | ||
| Position | Right Wing | ||
| Shot | Right | ||
| Played for |
Boston Bruins San Jose Sharks | ||
| NHL draft |
39th overall, 1982 Boston Bruins | ||
| Playing career | 1984–1995 | ||
Lyndon Svi Byers (February 29, 1964 – July 4, 2025) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and radio personality. Byers played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for parts of ten seasons with the Boston Bruins and San Jose Sharks, earning a reputation as one of the league's toughest enforcers. He was the cousin of former NHL forward Dane Byers.[1]
Playing career
[edit]Born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Byers spent a year with the Notre Dame Hounds before beginning his major junior career in 1981 with the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League (WHL). The following year, the Boston Bruins selected him with a second-round pick (39th overall) at the 1982 NHL Entry Draft.[2] His gritty style earned him a spot with Team Canada at the 1984 World Junior Championships in Nyköping, Sweden. Byers showed promise by scoring 32 goals in each of the next two seasons with Regina, but it was his 153 and 154 penalty minutes in each of those seasons that would be a better measure of his future professional career.
Joining the Bruins at the end of the 1983–84 season, he scored two goals and four assists for six points while amassing 32 PIMs. Bouncing back and forth between the parent club and the minors, his best statistical season came in 1987–88, when he registered 10 goals and 14 assists for 24 points while amassing 249 penalty minutes in 53 games.
Byers signed as a free-agent with the San Jose Sharks on November 7, 1992, where he finished his NHL career in 1992–93, before ending his professional playing career with the International Hockey League (IHL)'s Minnesota Moose in 1994–1995. He scored 28 goals and 43 assists for 71 points and amassed 1,081 PIMs in 279 NHL games over ten seasons.
Entertainment career
[edit]Shortly after his playing career,[when?] Byers returned to the Boston area and became a member of the Hill Man Morning Show on radio station WAAF-FM, where he was an on-air personality and sports specialist for 23 years before the show ended. Byers moved to the afternoon slot along with co-host Mike Hsu.[3][better source needed] On September 3, 2019, Byers left the show.[citation needed]
Personal life and death
[edit]Byers was married to Annie and had a son. He died on July 4, 2025, at the age of 61.[4][5]
Career statistics
[edit]| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1981–82 | Notre Dame Hounds | SMHL | 37 | 35 | 42 | 77 | 106 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1981–82 | Regina Pats | WHL | 57 | 18 | 25 | 43 | 169 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 48 | ||
| 1982–83 | Regina Pats | WHL | 70 | 32 | 38 | 70 | 153 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | ||
| 1983–84 | Regina Pats | WHL | 58 | 32 | 57 | 89 | 154 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1983–84 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 10 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1984–85 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 33 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1984–85 | Hershey Bears | AHL | 27 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 55 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1985–86 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1985–86 | Moncton Golden Flames | AHL | 14 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1985–86 | Milwaukee Admirals | IHL | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1986–87 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 18 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1986–87 | Moncton Golden Flames | AHL | 27 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 63 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1987–88 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 53 | 10 | 14 | 24 | 236 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 62 | ||
| 1987–88 | Maine Mariners | AHL | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1988–89 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 49 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 218 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1988–89 | Maine Mariners | AHL | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1989–90 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 43 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 159 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | ||
| 1990–91 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 19 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||
| 1991–92 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 31 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 129 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||
| 1991–92 | Maine Mariners | AHL | 11 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1992–93 | San Jose Sharks | NHL | 18 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 122 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1992–93 | Kansas City Blades | IHL | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1992–93 | San Diego Gulls | IHL | 9 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1993–94 | Las Vegas Thunder | IHL | 31 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 176 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 1994–95 | Minnesota Moose | IHL | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| NHL totals | 279 | 28 | 43 | 71 | 1081 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 96 | ||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Boston Bruins", Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks California 91320 United States: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011, doi:10.4135/9781412994156.n63, ISBN 978-1-4129-7382-3, retrieved 2025-07-05
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Lyndon Byers http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=711
- ^ LB Bio http://features.waaf.com/hillman/lb_main.php Archived 2013-03-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Former Boston Bruins enforcer, longtime radio host Lyndon Byers dead at 61
- ^ D, Victoria (5 July 2025). "Lyndon "LB" Byers, former Boston Bruins enforcer and radio host, dies at 61". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 5 July 2025.
External links
[edit]- Lyndon Byers at IMDb
- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database
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