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Why Didnβt the Flyers Trade Rasmus Ristolainen?! | Reacting to Flyers Trade Deadline
Mar 7, 2026
The Flyers SHOCKINGLY did not trade defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen at the trade deadline, and we react live.
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0:00
Anthony DeMarco has tweeted, "I'm told
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the Flyers are not moving Rasmus to line
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and they did not get their price." Um,
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so we will see if that changes in the
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next 10 minutes. We will see uh what the
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narrative is if he's not traded, what
0:16
Brier says. Um, and we'll see if the
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Flyers now try to move anyone else in
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these next 10 minutes. Yeah, it seemed
0:24
like it was it was going that way the
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the last like 30 minutes from what we've
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heard about Faulk and about
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>> Yeah,
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>> some of the other teams making moves
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even if it isn't for a defenseman. I
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mean, like you're losing assets
0:37
regardless. Um yeah, that's that sucks.
0:41
I mean, I think that's a missed
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opportunity there a little bit. It is,
0:45
but like maybe like I wonder if a team
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offered like a first and like a like a B
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like a not a good enough prospect for
0:52
the Flyers or something and like wanted
0:54
them to retain like but like I don't
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know. I I
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>> don't know. I think you just got to get
0:59
what you get at this point.
1:01
>> Yeah. His I don't think his value is
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going to be higher, but like as long as
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he stays healthy, his value is not gonna
1:07
>> That's the problem.
1:08
>> His value is not going to go down next
1:09
year.
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>> No, I don't think so at all.
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>> But health is is is the thing.
1:13
>> The health is the problem. He's
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>> Yeah.
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>> You know, like like I don't know what
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his games played are, but we saw this
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year. I mean,
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>> he just he he just seems like a guy who
1:23
gets a lot of nicks and and and door
1:26
dings throughout the year. Then he had
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the tricep thing and that that kept him
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out. 24 games this year, 63 last year,
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31 the year before that.
1:34
>> Yeah.
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>> That's not a great record, right? And I
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think there's there's every chance that
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that just keeps continuing and you get
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to the deadline and maybe he's not
1:44
healthy and then what do you do at that
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point, right? Or if even if you get to
1:48
the deadline and he was healthy or or he
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but he had a a couple of uh of minor
1:54
injuries heading into it and he gets the
1:56
deadline healthy but he doesn't have the
1:58
the benefit of an Olympic performance
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where he looks quite good.
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>> Yeah. Does that hamper, you know, does
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that kind of hamper your your chances of
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trading him? I think I think it does.
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And
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>> since 2022, 23, he hasn't played over 70
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games.
2:14
>> Yeah. Or like what if he does stay
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healthy and the Flyers are good and
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they're in a playoff spot and they they
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don't sell him, they use him and they
2:21
lose in the first round. Like you're not
2:22
getting anything for him. you're getting
2:24
that playoff experience for the young
2:25
players, but you're not truly getting
2:28
any assets for him to go get that 1C,
2:32
which which would be the frustrating
2:33
thing.
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>> I had this conversation with a couple
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different people on on on X and on Blue
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Sky, and
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>> like I don't I don't hate the idea of
2:42
keeping Risto and trying to go for the
2:44
playoffs and trying to make a push here,
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but not not this year. Not not not this
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No, not this year and next year, you
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know, just keep him both years and just
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like whatever it is the end it is. Um,
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but it's it's one of those guys you look
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at his last, you know, he hasn't played
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uh more than 70 games.
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He played it he played 74 in 2022 23 and
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then he played 69 in 2019 20
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um the rest of the time you know you got
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40 49 66 31 63 24
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>> I don't know there's no guarantee he's
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going to be there if we're making a
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playoff push next year or if you're if
3:25
you're playing next year even the rest
3:27
of the season right there's not
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necessarily a guarantee that he's going
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to stay healthy we were we were all
3:31
holding our breath heading into the
3:33
deadline thinking that there is a chance
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that, you know, he might he might get
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hurt.
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So, it's it's a risk. If it pays off,
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you can still definitely get a first at
3:43
next year's deadline. I think that's
3:45
still possible unless he falls off a
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cliff, which is also very possible
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because he has been very very very bad
3:51
in his career before. And that's why I
3:53
think this year you probably needed to
3:54
get what you could get. But if you
3:56
didn't get your price and the price was
3:58
high, that's it is what it is
3:59
unfortunately. And like as long as he
4:02
stays healthy the rest of this year, an
4:04
offseason trade could be could be very
4:06
possible. Like you see how Yurichek
4:08
comes in and plays for a month or two.
4:10
You see how Dale comes out. More teams
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are willing to make roster moves in the
4:15
off season. Um including the Flyers. So
4:18
that could be an option for them. Um
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maybe the Flyers circle back on wrist
4:24
line and trades in the off season. Um,
4:27
Kevin Kurts just tweeted, "Protein
4:29
Source Flyers are done for the day." So,
4:32
uh, Bobby Brink traded for David Uric.
4:35
Nick Deloreier traded for a conditional
4:38
seventh round pick. Um, they made that
4:41
minor trade with the Bruins.
4:44
I guess I'm wellelmed. I guess I'm
4:46
wellemed by this deadline. Brink getting
4:48
Euro check is is a good move. I mean, we
4:50
talked about that for a bit. It's all we
4:52
can talk about. Um, now fans are going
4:56
to be upset that they did not trade
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wrist linen, but I understand it. You
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have to you have to hold hold to your
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asking price and if they don't they
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don't pay up for it, then you don't do
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it. But it it is um it is tough. It is
5:09
tough to we talked about it last week,
5:12
two weeks ago with uh meu, Steve, and
5:15
Joe like with Charlie Brown with the
5:17
football Jasm line of rumors all over
5:19
again. And once again, it did not trade
5:21
him. We saw that with Lton for a few
5:23
years. They did finally get the first
5:25
round pick Angra Banken for him last
5:27
year. So there is hope for Risto Linan,
5:30
but
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it's uh it is disappointing like that.
5:34
That's I think the main thing with
5:37
Risto,
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but
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I think the brink trade still makes it a
5:44
positive grade for this for the deadline
5:47
overall. I
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>> I would I would push back against that.
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I uh just a little bit. The brink thing
5:52
for me is a lottery ticket on a guy who
5:56
has been traded twice as a sixth overall
5:58
pick and he's 22 years old. So there's
6:01
obviously something that both
6:02
organizations didn't like. I don't
6:04
really respect the Columbus Blue Jackets
6:06
whatsoever, but the Minnesota Wild seem
6:08
to know kind of what they're doing.
6:11
The thing that I I'm almost okay with
6:14
trading not trading wristan.
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I I don't love it. I think very I I I'm
6:20
definitely lower on Risto than a lot of
6:21
people um around the league probably are
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or even around the team. I just don't
6:26
think he's necessarily a guy that pushes
6:28
the needle one way or the other. Uh I
6:30
think he's an basically like you know
6:32
wins above replacement in baseball. He
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is the replacement player second pair
6:36
defenseman. Um that's and you know it
6:39
he's tall and right-handed so it it
6:41
pushes his value up a little bit more.
6:43
I think if you're not going to trade
6:45
Risto, the Hathaways and the Grundstroms
6:48
of the world, I mean, you gota you got
6:49
to kind of see if you can get one of
6:51
them out of the door.
6:52
>> That's
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>> and that's kind of a minimum. I think
6:55
that's honestly like a minimum
6:58
a minimum sort of requirement if you're
7:00
not going to send Risto
7:02
um for a return that you I think they
7:04
definitely could have got a first round
7:05
pick um at some point. And as we tick
7:08
under five minutes here till the
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deadline,
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um we we see kind of um a lack of a lack
7:17
of movement that I think is just going
7:19
to be
7:20
you don't you didn't add anything to
7:22
give the team like this push for the
7:25
playoffs or give them that like morale
7:27
boost. But he also didn't sell really
7:30
like I don't think the brink thing is
7:31
necessarily selling. I think that's
7:33
almost more so of a hockey trade than
7:35
selling because it's not like year is
7:37
three years away. It's not like he's a
7:39
first round pick. He's still he should
7:41
be up here if not this year than the
7:44
next or Yeah. If not this year than the
7:46
next.
7:46
>> Yeah.
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>> Uh so, you know, I to me it's one of
7:50
those where you get like a C minus or a
7:51
C. It's just like you didn't do the
7:54
Brink thing might be literally trading
7:56
him for an AHL player. Like you don't
7:58
know that yet. It's it's a very wide
8:00
variance of what Eurichek can be and if
8:02
you can rehabilitate him and take him
8:04
back to what he used to be as as as a
8:07
prospect. But besides that, you know,
8:09
Deloreier thing is just basically a
8:10
window dressing. Um that's just that's
8:13
doing doing a solid to Delore. You
8:15
almost can't even count that.
8:17
>> I don't know. It's not it's not it's not
8:19
impressive. I will say that.
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