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Flyers Trade Bobby Brink to the Minnesota Wild
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We’d like to thank Bobby Brink for his service to the Flyers as he heads to Minnesota:
The Flyers had a glut of wingers and Brink was a prime trade candidate.
As for Jiricek, he was the 6th pick in the 2022 draft, taken by the Jackets right after the Flyers selected… Cutter Gauthier. He’s a right-handed defenseman, 6’4″, Czech youth international and 22 years old, traded to the Wild back in 2024. This is a reclamation type of project, bringing in a guy who is dangerously close to being a 1st round bust and seeing if a change of scenery can unlock the potential. Apparently the knock is that the guy can’t skate and doesn’t seem to have NHL-level awareness, so you get him in into Rick Tocchet’s low-event, boring-ass defensive system and try to pull that raw talent out of him.
Either way, the Flyers had to move a winger. They bring back a guy they can work with. Danny B gotta move Risto next.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com