Confirmed with Link: Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee traded to Calgary for Andrei Kuzmenko, Jakob Pelletier, 2025 2nd, 2028 7th

[Jersey Fan 12]

In light of the trade I took a look at thr unsigned Flyers prospects who might be on the way to replace Frost and Farabee.

Bump is tearing things up at Western Michigan (and Cole Knuble I'd also in the lineup as the Broncos have one of the top teams in college hockey).

Curious about what's going on with Owen McLaughlin at North Dakota. He was a point per game player as a sophomore but his numbers are way down this season. Is he injured? Different linemates?

 

[VladDrag]

In light of the trade I took a look at thr unsigned Flyers prospects who might be on the way to replace Frost and Farabee.

Bump is tearing things up at Western Michigan (and Cole Knuble I'd also in the lineup as the Broncos have one of the top teams in college hockey).

Curious about what's going on with Owen McLaughlin at North Dakota. He was a point per game player as a sophomore but his numbers are way down this season. Is he injured? Different linemates?

Re Owen McLaughlin, different linemates... Jackson Blake was a consistent linemate last year, and he's not playing for Carolina. Blake was the guy who made that line go (I used to watch a lot of ND last year to check on him)

 

[Strawberry Fields]

"Good" for Risto is bottom pair level versus sub-replacement level. If losing him is going to ruin your defense, your defense already sucks.

 

[kudymen]

If some trolls take this as an opportunity to laugh at others fans and consider it a rebuild move, I can totally understand why they are against rebuild or tanking. Because they have no clue of what those words mean.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Is anyone in the media going to call Briere out on why they traded a player out of a position of weakness?

 

[WiredInFlya]

I think this is ultimately the consequence of publicizing "rebuilding", then re-signing TK, thus begging to be be taken advantage of on your tweeners in order to afford TK.

Which to me, and should signal to even the most devout followers ( I have given GMDB a ton of latitude personally ) that the inmates are still running the asylum.

Additionally, the confusion that the "inmates" in the past we're just addicted to big money spending to be eternal middling contenders, and not just innately poor at asset management and public relations, is the single defining wedge issue on this board IMHO.

The only way the $ works in the future for a true rebuild is getting Couturier to waive his NMC. Because I can guarantee you, they are going to blow the room from the ceiling going up on something stupid.

 

[MJL66]

And this is really why it's not a rebuilding move and cannot be. Any building move should be aligning with Michkov's prime. Kuz doesn't. Pelletier is a 3rd liner, so who gives a shit, good teams can find those (and of higher quality) guys anywhere by robbing bad teams like the Flyers. The 2nd in a draft that isn't looking too strong is unlikely to yield anyone who is going to be effective on the roster before 2032, and the 7th won't.

It straight up is not a building move.

We have to keep in mind what rebuilding is to the Flyers. Rebuilding is not concentrating on the draft. We know from past history, they will only sit still for so long patiently. This deal in their mind is for rebuilding. It gives them a lot of cap flexibility in the future. Where they can get back in the game in wheeling and dealing. That's how they rebuild. It's work so well to this point, what could go wrong?

 

[Curufinwe]

Couturier’s contract is not stopping them from rebuilding.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Is anyone in the media going to call Briere out on why they traded a player out of a position of weakness?

He’ll say “it’s a rebuild” as if that’s an all encompassing pass for dumbassery.

 

[MJL66]

Because if he's good then he has value to sell? He's still playing below his contract and on any other team is a 3rd liner. This is an opportunity to sell high. He's 30. He's irrelevant to Michkov's prime.

We have Sanheim and Seeler. That's enough.

There are so many fans who don't have a clue of what a good defenseman actually is. They look at Ristolainen, who went from being completely awful to now being able to make the routine play and say, wow he is good now. What an improvement. He went from a player who used to be able to put up 40 points, which was his best attribute. To a defenseman who plays a routine game and is now an overpaid 3rd pair defenseman on a good team. They don't understand what a good defenseman actually does. Tilts the ice to their side. Ristolainen plays in a conservative, tight checking defensive structure where everyone has to stay on the defensive side of the puck. It's equivalent to having a dog that constantly ran away, putting him on a leash and tying him up and saying you trained him not to run away. If you put him in a more aggressive attacking system, like good teams play, especially if you overuse him. That extreme lack of hockey sense will again rear its ugly head.

 

[ybnvs]

The Darkest Timeline must prevail.

It's similar to the real-world live example of watching the consolidation of economic power happening before our very eyes today... but people still vote for the authoritarians for some reason and beg, "Please sir, may I have some more?"