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Wrapping Up a Quiet Flyers Trade Deadline After Danny Briere Keeps Rasmus Ristolainen
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Reports that the Flyers are done for the day:
We’d need to know the price they reportedly set and were unwilling to move off of, in order to make a real judgment here, but it feels underwhelming. Risto still has a year on his contract, so it’s not like he’s going to walk for free at the end of this season and provide nothing in return, but he’s injury-prone, 31 years old, and hitting more than $5 million against the cap. There’s no guarantee that his value, whatever it is, is going to be higher than it is now, especially coming off the Olympic performance.
Wrapping up Danny Briere’s trade deadline:
| OUTGOING | INCOMING |
|---|---|
| Nic Deslauriers | conditional 7th round pick (Carolina) |
| Bobby Brink | Luke Glendening |
| Alexis Gendron | David Jiricek |
| Massimo Rizzo | Brett Harrison |
| Jackson Edward |
Earlier in the week, they did another AHL swap, trading Roman Schmidt for forward Boris Katchouk. A blockbuster! You could certainly loop the Dvorak extension into the mix as well, since he was a guy they could have flipped at the deadline for an asset.
This whole week turned out to be a snooze fest. They moved Brink, which made sense considering the logjam of wingers on the roster. You’ve got Porter Martone coming up and Tyson Foerster will be back from injury, so you had to address that oversaturation. Jiricek is a guy who is still only 22 years old, 6’4″, a big right-handed defenseman who will be a reclamation project. The raw talent is there, they just need to pull it out of him. Everything else they did was low-leverage fringe stuff. Sending Deslauriers to a contender was basically a gift, and Glendening is a 36-year-old 4C who will play 20 or so games here before he walks.
Anyway, Pittsburgh is up next. Saturday in Yinzerville. Trevor Zegras is the next order of business, and he hasn’t exactly been lighting the world on fire lately.
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