[Charlie O’Connor] Les nouvelles concernant Draisaitl aujourd’hui confirment ma conviction que les Flyers ne peuvent pas compter sur le marché des joueurs autonomes pour résoudre leur problème de talents de haut niveau. Je pense toujours que le marché des échanges est la voie à suivre s’ils veulent ajouter ce genre de joueurs de l’extérieur de l’organisation.
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upcan845
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Who are the bonafide 1Cs that have been traded in the past 10 years? Eichel?
Who are the bonafide 1Ds that have been traded in the past 10 years? Karlsson (twice), maybe McDonagh?
The Draisaitl news just shows the easiest way to retain these types of high-end talents is to have drafted them in the first place.
I agree with this sentiment. Throw the house at someone you want can’t just wait around. If it doesn’t work out we can’t say with didn’t try. Didn’t win. Cup with Lindros but it was fun at least.
Always made me chuckle when I saw people say Draisaitl was a viable option for us to go after in free agency.
Showed pretty well who just pays attention to the flyers and who actually followed the league as a whole.
Who’s going to be your trade partner? Teams don’t trade away top talent because it’s so hard to come by. This is a pipe dream, much like the idea that the Flyers could trade into the top 5 of a draft.
Hmmmm, if only there were some third method to try to acquire a 1C and 1D, perhaps some way where you could avoid needing a trade partner and say “The Philadelphia Flyers claim this teenager with 1C potential.”
Unfortunately, no such system exists as far as I am aware.
It’s frustrating the Flyers had the opportunity to really tear it down and do a true rebuild and instead, here we are finishing in the same position they have for the majority of the last decade, stocked with late 1st round picks in 2025 where it’s exceptionally rare to find 1C/1D type players, and pigeon holing themselves into having to trade for those players. Same shit different management regime.
Really thankful I have Charlie O’Connor’s opinion on how to build a team. The dude just HAS to be on some franchises’ GM interview list…
Is this an upcan thread with upvotes?!