Pre-Game Talk: Trade Deadline 2025: Will They Or Won't They?

[LegionOfDoom91]

Zero percent overall, not sure I’ve seen that before.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Zero percent overall, not sure I’ve seen that before.

Luke Kunin got a 3 MM contract?!

 

[Tripod]

LeBrun just said Leafs have talked to Philly again today about Laughton but Schenn is still in the mix.

So likely Leafs want Schenn and if a deal can't get done, Laughton is the fallback

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I have no idea why anybody would be interested in Brayden Schenn & that contract for free let alone actually giving up assets for him.

The market as a whole truthfully sucks at this point once you get past Rantanen & Nelson (who knows if they’ll even get traded).

 

[Winston Wolf]

You know the internal conversation right now is between trading Laughton or signing him to a six year deal on July 1.

 

[Danko]

Blues had switched to trying to make the playoffs probably and took Schenn out but then Parayko got hurt and they realized they are f***ed.

 

[scumpup]

DANNY WILL GET IT DONE. TRADE MICHKOV FOR TORONTOS 2028 FIRST!

 

[BigToe]

Luke Kunin got a 3 MM contract?!

Hockey might be the dumbest sport, Josep.

 

[freakydallas13]

The best sellers market the trade deadline has seen in years, and Flyers management is wringing their hands at trading Scott Laughton and upsetting their decade of culture mediocrity.

 

[GKJ]

 

[Magua]

Obviously bottoming out is your best percentage play of acquiring game breaking type of talent. Obviously no guarantee but it has better odds than drafting them outside that range & acquiring them through trade or free agency. Drafting really is the only way to acquire that type of talent & get their full athletic prime as well as a lower price point potential in contract.

I’m not saying it can’t be done the other way but obviously that’s the hardest path to go down. How can you have faith in this organization to pull this one off? It’s not even Briere thing necessarily because it even predates him. This is organization is absolutely atrocious at getting ahead of the market. More times than not they’re buying high while they’re selling low. They simply do not understand the economics of contract value & age curves. Add in some really questionable player evaluations.

The central thesis of the Flyers “rebuild” is that you don’t need top 5 picks (even when you do select a player 5th overall, you don’t need ‘em!) and can rebuild with quantity of picks and quality of decisions.

They’ve backed that up by selecting hilariously overvalued low ceiling players and passing up star talent that fell — the selection of which would’ve been validating. Refusing to part with old depth players. Trading prime age talent for expiring contracts and waivers. Not calling up successful young AHLers. And holding out for the hope of signing magical aging overpaid UFAs. There’s no there there to anything they do.

 

[Sombastate]

Both Laughton and Risto taking warm ups

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Zero percent overall, not sure I’ve seen that before.

Flyers future culture....

 

[volnoir]

Both Laughton and Risto taking warm ups

They need to showcase them to the Jets.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

The best sellers market the trade deadline has seen in years, and Flyers management is wringing their hands at trading Scott Laughton and upsetting their decade of culture mediocrity.

I was just looking at Seravelli’s trade board dumbfounded why this would be considered a seller’s market at this point. There’s very few players on it I would even consider a positive secondary or better caliber contributor type of add at this point.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Both these clowns dressing is now a new low for this so called new management group.

This summer UFA time will be when we go lower. f*** them all

 

[Tarpongg]

Has Flyer media begun their air cover operation? I’m guessing we will hear, for the 3rd straight deadline, “there is a sense among the Flyer braintrust the return for players like Laughton and Risto will be better in the offseason”

 

[CapnZin]

Sitting on your hands with multiple public media figures stating flyers players have interest league-wide is organizational malpractice. Having these trade pieces play is organizational malpractice. It’s “business” when torts doghouse players are traded, but white nighting his favorites is doing right by the players feels like a twilight zone episode where we wait for the plot twist tomorrow at 3pm.

 

[BigToe]

wrong thread

 

[Rich Nixon]

I was just looking at Seravelli’s trade board dumbfounded why this would be considered a seller’s market at this point. There’s very few players on it I would even consider a positive secondary or better caliber contributor type of add at this point.

That's part of what makes it a seller's market.

 

[ponder719]

Good guy Danny out here trying to make sure Duthie has some as-yet-untraded players to talk about tomorrow.

 

[Deadpool8812]

Zero percent overall, not sure I’ve seen that before.

What about Ristolainen when he was dogshit?