I think multiple contenders will ante up a late first for him as a rental. Lots of negative talk about Chych here and it surprises me. He’s a professional and is highly desired. Would work very well on a playoff contender that needs an experienced #2 with #1 upside.
That is my 2 cents.
If either of the these statements were true, then he’d be gone.
If he was playing like or is a #2, every team moves a late 1st for him if that’s all it took. Clearly, he’s not, hence nobody has.
Either Sens want a #2 value - to which he hasn’t played like it - or no team views him as that. Never mind even the fact that he has requested out and won’t sign long term.
Standard overvalue of a player relative to market.
My proposal was based on that. With Sanheim moving to RD permanently, it bumps Risto down to 3rd pair since Drysdale was acquire. Risto is overpaid relative to what he provides, but he is a #4 physical, defensive D based on the rehab work done by the Flyers staff. This can be verified on his advanced metrics as well. So he’d be a pretty good partner to an offensive 2nd pair d-man, which is what I thought the Sens needed. Flyers also have more dmen close to making the jump so need to clear space.
So it’s simply a moving of assets that may be a better fit for both terms. I acknowledge Chychrun has more value (but certainly not as much as.his acquisitio), and Laughton would be a positive fit in Ottawa. Hence the two together for Chychrun made sense to me.
Joseph is completely inconsequential to the Flyers - they have too many RWs as is. If he’s included as a dump for salary that’s fine; but has little value as a RW (assuming that he is).