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If a team cannot draft and develop prospects at a certain position, it does not have to be the end. Look no further then Vegas’s blueline.
Look at any top team’s blue line. Draft for offense, acquire defense.
What Tocchet is trying to do, but may not be able to keep with, is spread thing out a bit. He’s trying to live with Tippett-Zegras-Konecny line as “2/3 just adequate enough” defensively not to kill you while seeking offense. He wanted two defensively responsible linemates for Michkov because he has a long way to go still defensively.
I think Tocchet’s lines were more about matching up against FLA and he won’t stick with those combinations long term. Dvorak remaining with Couturier might be an option against the Aho line in CAR. That’s CAR’s main threat and they don’t have FLA’s D or goaltending. Still, they were a bad matchup last year.
their best bet is to somehow trade for someone who has term or control. who that is I dont know.
UFA pickings are slim after Andersson. RFAs who might be moved, also slim.
https://www.spotrac.com/nhl/free-agents/_/year/2026/position/d/type/ufa
he wont like his $$$$ being taxed out the ass.
either way he isnt a flyers option. they will probably trade for dylan mcllarth…..
As a UFA, are the Flyers an option for Andersson? Vegas needs to do something about replacing Pietrangelo, who might be finished. Climate wise, Vegas would be a big adjustment from Arctic Calgary. The Flyers do need one Top 4 guy. Byram is the other guy who might be available. That’s about it for now as far as I know.
he will have many suitors. flyers at the bottom of his list I would imagine. therefor not really realistic
once that communist socialist mayor is elected in NY it will be interesting to see if it effects athletes wanting to play in NY. he wants to tax the shit out of high earners.
Andersson is from socialist Sweden so he likely won’t have a problem with that. The Rags organization? That’s a different question.
he is a real good dman. will have a lot of interest.
help me understand why he would choose to come to the flyers for his last big contract.
That’s the catch, isn’t it? Choosing the Flyers over the Rags, at least, is a no brainer.
Trade Pitch Sees Rangers Acquiring $27.3M Defenseman Blockbuster Deal
By his play Vladar should get this start, but I fully expect Ersson in net. At this rate, Zamula is playing his way out of the top 6 pretty quickly. Undrafted player, who deserves credit for getting this far in his career, but he is trending to be a very fringe 6th Dman. No need to be overly critical with the player, start pointing the finger at the organization cannot figure out a way to build a better top 6 blueline.
Agree about Vladar getting the start. Not so sure he won’t. Laughing about some “experts” calling starting Vladar a gutsy move. More like a no brainer. Zamula is already out of the healthy Top 6. More like the 8th D. Unfortunately, they aren’t healthy. As an 8th guy? He was ragged again last night but didn’t kill them out there. FLA made the extra shot.
We’ll see Jett and Grebenkin. We know Coach Taco will look to juggle and match lines. CAR leans hard on the Aho line. After that, there’s a bigger drop off than with FLA. It will be interesting to see who the matchup is there. Dvorak and Couturier again? Practice lines will tell us. Slavin is the world class man on D for them. CAR was a bad matchup for the Flyers last year going 3-0 with a combined score of 15-5. I’m more concerned about this game than the FLA game last night.
Contain their top two lines with ours, fight their 4th line with ours and hope the Cates line makes the extra shot. That looks like the plan.
Who saw this coming? Hahahaha! The Cates line badly outplayed FLA’s 3rd line. The orgasms over how well they played from some folks reveal a lack of understanding about actual on-ice matchups. FLA’s 3rd line is a problem for them against deeper teams. Of course, the Cates line delivered, which was obviously needed. The Flyers top 2 lines did not outplay FLA’s top 2 lines. FLA’s top 2 lines are still great. When Barkov and Tkachuk are healthy, FLA has 3 great lines. They still had their top tier D and goaltending. Vladar was great. Game came down to who made the extra shot. It was Marchand. He outplayed Konecny who failed to bury a much better chance. D held up well enough under the circumstances.
Rasmus Andersson, right handed D, pretty good, fits under the cap, end of season UFA. Might be available sooner. We will see. It’s a very safe bet, after the big Frost trade last year, Briere has at least checked in on him.
Contain their top two lines with ours, fight their 4th line with ours and hope the Cates line makes the extra shot. That looks like the plan.
every team has young players with “upside”
Especially the Rangers. Look at that track record of excellence.
remove the flyers top 4 players ( MM, Tk, Sanheim, ?). what do they have?
Young players with upside and not overpaid, sagging vets like Zibanejad, Miller and Trocheck.
Seeing a lot of the pundits have a three-way battle between the Flyers, Penguins, and Rangers as to who finished at the bottom of the Metro.
Don’t count out the Islanders. The only locks to finish ahead of the Flyers in the Metro I see are WSH, CAR and NJ. The Negadelphians I see here are really overestimating the majority of the league.
