Lyndon Byers’s uppercut was unmatched.
“Oh, my gosh,” Bob Sweeney said Tuesday. “Everybody used to talk about it on our team, and I know all of his opponents did, as well. He could throw ‘em with the best of ‘em.”
Byers, the former Bruins winger with the lightning fists and a wit to match, died last Saturday. Byers’s wife, Annie, confirmed his passing on social media but did not reveal a cause of death.
A native of Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Byers played 261 games across nine seasons in Boston. He became a fan favorite/cult hero shortly after the franchise took him in the second round of the 1982 NHL Draft.