NHL Trade Talk
Report: Flyers Put James van Riemsdyk on NHL Trade Block
It was a chaotic Saturday for the Philadelphia Flyers. Lukas Sedlak left the team to return home to Czechia and resume his hockey career there. Coach John Tortorella followed his third period benching of Kevin Hayes on Thursday by making Hayes, the Flyers’ leading scorer, a healthy scratch on Saturday against the New York Rangers. And Jeff Marek on Hockey Night in Canada added a Flyers name to the NHL trade chatter.
According to Marek, during the intermission segment 32 Thoughts, Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher will listen to offers on James van Riemsdyk.
“The Philadelphia Flyers have made him available,” Marek said. “The actual cash here is $5 million (and) $1 million has already been paid as a bonus going back to last summer. The cap hit is $7 million … and the Flyers could eat some of that as well to make it more palatable for a team looking at James van Riemsdyk.”
Marek believes he would be a good fit for a team looking for power-play help and, of course, a playoff team. van Riemsdyk will be an unrestricted free agent after the season.
The only other pending Flyers UFA is defenseman Justin Braun.
van Riemsdyk, 33, has put up points this season and could become one of the more attractive available on the NHL trade market. In 12 games, he has five goals and 11 points. He scored a goal Saturday in the 6-3 loss to the New York Rangers but was a minus-3. Last season, the 6-foot-3, 217-pound LW notched 24 tallies.
The Philadelphia Flyers are sixth from the bottom in the NHL and headed toward a lottery pick. They’re next to last in the Eastern Conference.
The NHL holiday break begins on Dec. 23 and extends through Dec. 26. Teams cannot make trades or roster moves during that time.
Put Hayes there too
His contract makes him un-tradable.
Iam waiting for the day when the Flyer Organization FINALLY Fires Chuckles the Clown. The GM ( General Moron ) has ruined this Team for seasons to come. The next GM will have a mess to clean up once Chuckles is gone. BTW; JVR should have been gone 2 years ago.
Because trading JVR with two years left at a cap hit of 7 million had teams lining up, right? The state of the Flyers is just as much Hextall’s fault as it is Fletchers. He cleared up a ton of cap space but his drafting record was average and his free agent record even worse. Having said that, they should probably have a new GM going into this draft because Fletchers asset management, especially with picks, is abysmal. To think of what he had to give up to get Phoenix to take Ghost and then what he followed up with just to get Risto should get him fired alone. A team going nowhere fast then trades additional picks in a deep draft for DeAngelo, who I like, but wasn’t going to move the needle much on a team this bad. Should have kept the picks and be Chicago bad this year. Great year for it. BTW; calling Fletcher Chuckles doesn’t make you sound clever, it makes you sound 10 years old.
Sell the team Comcast, you’re total disinterest is glaring, you’ve run this team like a woke cable company. Your executive hires are horrible and we should stay away in droves until you sell to competent, win first owners
A “woke cable company”? WTF is that supposed to mean?
It means they try too hard to be “progressive” and show they support the various cultural movements taking place on topics like race, LBGTQ acceptance, and female empowerment.
It MEANS that they possess an Ideology thats more suited for a Mental Institution than a NHL Organization; thats what that means.
Let me explain it to you dope, a woke cable company is the parent owner of the NHL flyers and they’re only concern is social idiocy like what is the “left”. They certainly aren’t concerned about the team and any flyer fans that remain. Kapeesh
Thanks for clearing up that you’re an idiot Paul. Appreciate that.
He is useless. The flyers tried to trade him for 3 years. Can we trade the whole team? They are pathetic.