The Philadelphia Flyers 2024-2025 Season: Progressing Towards Lord Stanley's Cup

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Also just to put a bow on the research, Poehling, Seeler, Drysdale, and Pelletier were the guys on the ice with Hathaway for the hit itself.

Seeler has got to get in there and show some face after a late hit. Maybe he is tired of having to do it every time and we need someone else to step up or maybe play Deslauriers as a regular 4th liner player. Toronto has Reaves play in like 75-80% of their games for a reason.

 

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It was — but COME on. Beat the best team on ice and lose to the Pens.

9 points out of a possible 10 . All we have to do is keep that pace for the next 21 games.

 

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From the Athletic:

Even the recent Frost-Farabee trade with the Calgary Flames at the end of January has arguably made the Flyers a better team. Frost and Farabee have done very little in Calgary, combining for just four points in 18 games (nine games a piece), while Andrei Kuzmenko found the scoresheet in three of his first four games with the Flyers ahead of Saturday’s meeting with the Jets and Jakob Pelletier got his first point in his second game with the club on Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

But that trade did something more, too, even if Kuzmenko and Pelletier, both unsigned past this season, aren’t around for long. It opened more cap space for them to play with for the future, which has been at the top of Briere’s list of priorities since the day he took over.

Losing the $5 million owed to Farabee through 2026-27 gives Briere much more flexibility to take that big swing that everyone knows has to be coming, and that he isn’t the type to shy away from. Depending on who gets shipped out when that day arrives — perhaps this summer — Ristolainen and Laughton could still be valuable players for a team that we know isn’t ever going to try to tank.

 

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Red Wings vs Blue Jackets outdoor attendance 94,751.

That's incredible!

 

[Chris p Bacon]

Red Wings vs Blue Jackets outdoor attendance 94,751.

That's incredible!

Pretty sure they did a ceremonial thing for Guadreau, which was also cool.

 

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Pretty sure they did a ceremonial thing for Guadreau, which was also cool.

They did i missed it but read about it today and seemed like the NHL did a great job with it.

 

[awaz]

Seeing a lot of chatter that the Jones trade (Spencer Knight and a 1st) with just 26% retention making Jones a $7M or so player should mean good things for Risto's value. Jones is probably the better player, but maybe not dramatically? Risto's 5M expiring next year (age 31) compared to Jones' 7M expiring in in 2030 (age 35) is much more attractive though. Plus Jones has a modified NTC and was squawking in the media about wanting to be moved.

Man. If the Flyers fetch even just a 1st for Risto, what a turnaround that would be. Kudos to Torts and Shaw for sure.

 

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They did i missed it but read about it today and seemed like the NHL did a great job with it.

I only caught some if the highlights of it, looked pretty cool.

 

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Seeing a lot of chatter that the Jones trade (Spencer Knight and a 1st) with just 26% retention making Jones a $7M or so player should mean good things for Risto's value. Jones is probably the better player, but maybe not dramatically? Risto's 5M expiring next year (age 31) compared to Jones' 7M expiring in in 2030 (age 35) is much more attractive though. Plus Jones has a modified NTC and was squawking in the media about wanting to be moved.

Man. If the Flyers fetch even just a 1st for Risto, what a turnaround that would be. Kudos to Torts and Shaw for sure.

That would be incredible but im hearing a lot of stories that nobody is knocking our door down for Risto.

 

[Chris p Bacon]

Seeing a lot of chatter that the Jones trade (Spencer Knight and a 1st) with just 26% retention making Jones a $7M or so player should mean good things for Risto's value. Jones is probably the better player, but maybe not dramatically? Risto's 5M expiring next year (age 31) compared to Jones' 7M expiring in in 2030 (age 35) is much more attractive though. Plus Jones has a modified NTC and was squawking in the media about wanting to be moved.

Man. If the Flyers fetch even just a 1st for Risto, what a turnaround that would be. Kudos to Torts and Shaw for sure.

I just want to know why we can't get over on a team like the Avs did with the Rags. Basically a second rounder for Lindgren.

 

[awaz]

That would be incredible but im hearing a lot of stories that nobody is knocking our door down for Risto.

I'm optimistic that's the Flyers trying to be hardliners on the price. It seems the local guys (Kurz in particular) are driving the 'quiet deadline' narrative. Most of the national media seems to put Risto and Laughton pretty high on trade boards.

But I guess we'll see what happens.

 

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I just want to know why we can't get over on a team like the Avs did with the Rags. Basically a second rounder for Lindgren.

How about the Rags pretty much traded nothing and got JT Miller. He got 14 points in 11 games since the trade.

 

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I'm optimistic that's the Flyers trying to be hardliners on the price. It seems the local guys (Kurz in particular) are driving the 'quiet deadline' narrative. Most of the national media seems to put Risto and Laughton pretty high on trade boards.

But I guess we'll see what happens.

Man i hope whatever happens we make out on any deal.

 

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Why not us?? Lets go!!

 

[awaz]

Man i hope whatever happens we make out on any deal.

Me too. And to be honest, I really hope they do something. I get that they both have a year left on their deals, they're both good contributors in some form or fashion. But I don't think their values are going to get any higher than they are at this deadline. Both playing well currently, get two playoff runs with them, reasonable or even beyond reasonable cap hits if you retain salary, and a thin C and RD market. Cap going up next year will alleviate a lot of pressure on contenders so the Flyers ability to take cap back or retain will be less valuable.

Just makes sense to deal these guys this week. Don't have to outright tell the media/league that, but I'll be disappointed if the post-deadline press conference is just more of Danny saying 'we value these guys and our demands weren't met'.