Potential commerce locations for Philadelphia Flyers Rasmus Ristolainen
Daily Faceof: Frank Seravalli and Tyler Yaremchuk discussing some potential commerce locations for Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Yaremchuk: “Over at DailyFaceoff.com, it was Matt Larkin looking at some potential locations for Rasmus Ristolainen, and Pat you’ll be able to throw up the board with simply form of the names and markets that Larkin had listed, Dallas, Detroit, Edmonton, Florida, Tampa, Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg.
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The attention-grabbing half with Ristolainen is clearly the time period. $5.1 million, couple extra years on that deal. I feel Dallas stands out. However as Larkin factors out, the Stars and Jim Nill, historically very hesitant to connect a first-round decide. That’s what Philly desires. Possibly that’s not a match, however Dallas is on the prime of their board, and I feel they do take advantage of sense.”
Seravalli: “They do, and I feel so does Detroit. That Detroit blue line must vastly enhance. I’m not solely bought that Ristolainen is the piece to do it, however simply by the character of the Dallas Stars proper facet, I feel that’s their big gap.
They’ve bought tons of cap house to spend with Tyler Seguin LTIR harm cash. However that group must, they’re a great distance on the correct facet of their protection from being a real Stanley Cup impending blue line, for my part.
And I feel the massive factor is, are you interested in the time period on his deal, or does it scare you away of your Dallas? And I feel that’d be definitely one factor to think about. He’s bought another 12 months after this, so, is that proper? No, two extra years.
That’s, umm, look, it’s, I feel the opposite a part of that is you hear concerning the Flyers raving about him and John Tortorella, and he’s given some full-throated responses on Ristolainen in the previous few weeks. Have they got to maneuver him? My reply can be in all probability not.”
Yaremchuk: “Yeah. I imply, hey, with the time period, you’re definitely not compelled to do something. That $5.1 million cap hit definitely throws a wrinkle in. Like if he was a pending UFA, and the Flyers put their hand up and stated, hey, we’ll maintain two and a half million and we would like a first-round decide. Like that just about appears like a better deal than you must take the $5.1 million. And such as you stated, is the time period enticing or to not a few of these groups?
As a result of we’ve seen Ristolainen undergo some robust stretches. In addition to he’s performed up to now this 12 months, he’s had years the place he’s been actually unhealthy. So do you need to take that danger for 2 extra seasons? I feel it’s, I feel it’s an attention-grabbing sort of angle and wrinkled the throw into this entire factor with him. However yeah…”
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Seravalli: “I’d say my huge factor with danger alignment, and I discussed this in your present ‘Oilers Nation Each Day’ final week, is I can’t consider one group that Rasmus Ristolainen’s ever performed on that he’s made higher.
He’s, he’s 760 video games into his profession, and has by no means performed in a playoff recreation. Not saying that’s all on him, however he’s by no means actually pushed a group and been a top-end defenseman.”
Yaremchuk: “Yeah and once more if he was a rental I feel there can be a group that will persuade themselves, hey let’s see if we will catch lightning in a bottle, however the three-year danger I feel is simply possibly a bit an excessive amount of.”
