The Flyers front office did something at the trade deadline that’s becoming increasingly rare in rebuilding situations: they actually made moves with intention.
The Sean Couturier situation is what it is — a captain’s contract attached to a question mark of a body. The forward depth moves made sense given where the team sits in the standings. The goaltending situation, as always, deserves its own 3,000-word breakdown.
But the one move that nobody is talking about, the one that might actually define the next three years of this rebuild, is the prospect piece they quietly moved in the third deal of deadline day. Whether that turns out to be genius or the kind of decision that gets a GM fired depends entirely on what happens in two years.
Here’s the full breakdown.
