Rumor: Flyers/Ottawa Trade
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KevinRedkey
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The reason would be what's attached to him. Forsberg is a minor cap dump.
Idk what the deal is, but there's a lot of possibilities. I just don't like the idea of trading 7th overall for a winger, when there's some decent UFA options. We need that pick to stock the cupboards, or to upgrade a more important position. Asset management has to be a priority after wasting a lot of DeBrincat/Chychrun.
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SnS
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Flyers have too much in goaltending already that it really makes no sense. But you never know.
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The issue with the Flyers taking Forsberg is that we already have Petersen buried in Lehigh Valley, behind Ersson and Fedotov. Now, if we were taking back Forsberg in lieu of retention on Petersen, as part of a larger deal (because let's face it, nobody's looking at acquiring Cal Petersen as a positive, DB's already made some statements obliquely suggesting we're looking at buying him out), then yes, I could see Forsberg making sense in that regard, but I don't see us moving either Ersson or Fedotov, and burying both Petersen and Forsberg would be cap malpractice.
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Briere said today they view 2 to 5 as similar players. If one slips, they likely try to trade up
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id like philly to take a swing at tkachuk and bring back that old style of philly hockey.
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My guess is they move up from 12 to 7 using the 31/32 pick and some minor combo of players on both sides, and Ottawa packages the 31/32 pick in a trade for Ullmark (if he waives).
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There's zero chance though. Why bother getting lathered up taking swings at things you can't possibly get?
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I would love to get Konecny in Ottawa. Was very popular when he played for the 67's
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I don't see the sens dealing for ullmark without an extension in place.
Trading for a soon to be UFA is death.
You've shown your hand that you like the player, and the agent sees $$$$ and leverage based on the bad optics of a team trading for a player then being unable to sign him. It guarantees an overpayment.
If Staios does that he's as dumb as Dorion.
It's moot anyways, no goalie is going to waive from boston to come here and get shelled in a contract year.
Every goalie in the league knows what happens to your stats when you come to O-Town.
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I just don't see 31/32 moving the needle for Boston. I think Boston adding a piece to get to 12OA is much more likely (or taking back a goalie they don't want).
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I guess it depends on how you look at it. Still teams looking for goalies but the best ones not named Ullmark seem to be off the board.
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The best ones, plural? Who other than Markstrom has been taken off the board?
Darcy Kuemper doesn't count IMO, that was a dump.
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I usually agree with not going after potential rentals in these cases, but I also don't think we can do nothing.
The only other viable option outside of bringing in a goalie, is to load up on D and hope Korpisalo can rebound with actual defenders in front him for 60 minutes.
There's no perfect option unfortunately.
