long article on the flyers site with fletcher
-"I'm not trading Claude Giroux, that's for sure. We have a lot of good players here but I would never say never to almost anybody besides Giroux.
-In addition to the recent recall of center Mikhail Vorobyev from the Phantoms, Fletcher said he would like to see standout Phantoms second-year defenseman Phillipe Myers get some NHL games this season and also to look at Samuel Morin (AHL surgery rehab) at the NHL level once he is cleared to play and completes a two-week conditioning assignment on the Phantoms.
-If the Flyers are eliminated from the playoff chase this spring, Fletcher said that he would have interest in assigning Hart back to the Phantoms in order to be available for the Calder Cup playoffs. In order to do so, the Flyers would have to make an on-paper move to send Hart to the Phantoms on the AHL playoff roster eligibility deadline -- which directly coincides with the NHL trade deadine -- and then immediately recall him to the NHL roster.
-"I don't expect us to trade a first-round pick for a rental. We could both buy and sell, but I guess my point is, every decision we make, if we're going to try to improve our team going forward and we can get that player now, great. There's always opportunities. So for me it's not the [time before the trade deadline] or even the rest of the year. From this point forward, we have to get better," Fletcher said.
"To be better next year, we may have to try to get better this year. That's what we're trying to do, whether it's the coaches on the ice or adding players, or whatever we have to do. I could see us buying and selling, I guess to use those terms. But the bigger focus is, we'd like to get some pieces in here that will be a part of this for a few years. That's really where my focus has been."
sounds like he really wants to bring up the younger guys on the back end maybe hes trying to trade gudas/amac/folin at deadline because we dont really have slots open
next season is last season for a mac a buyout would be fairly reasonable too if we werent able to trade him
This post was edited by dragoneth on Jan 31 2019 03:24pm