What a weird and bad proposal. No reason for either team to consider. For the Habs, the value is f***ed up. For the Flyers...they literally only have RWs (Michkov, Konecny, Tippett, Foerster, Brink, Atkinson, Hathaway). So trading their only good LW and C seems like a bad idea.
In a real world scenario outside of the garbage pile that are the flyers and their coaching staff right now, Farabee alone has enough value to build around for a fifth overall pick in this draft. He could have easily reached 60 or 70 points this season if Tortorella wasn't a knucklehead. If you know you know and if you don't you think he's just a 20 goal scorer.
This. Frost and Farabee alike are both very, very skilled players who play in a directionless franchise that doesn't know how to actually utilize skill. Anemic powerplay, terrible player usage. Elite talents they are not, but they're both 60ish point top 6 guys on a normal NHL franchise.
Both suffer from the fact that the Flyers employ a lot of idiots both off and on the ice. Guys like Farabee and Frost require other dudes with brains to be effective. Both of them worked well with Giroux—hell, Claude said he thought Farabee would be the one to surpass his Flyers franchise point totals.
Problem is, there are about 4 players on the team who can actually think through a passing sequence. Tippett, Foerster, Konecny, even Couturier? Even when effective, those guys are morons in the offensive zone. Catch and shoot, nothing else (and if seeing Couturier there surprises you, recall that his 70+ point seasons came on a line with Giroux and Voracek—they handled all the thinking for him. When he's expected to be the playmaker on a line, he's atrocious).
Farabee was off to a lightning start playing with Brink, who is one of those few clever guys, until Torts soured on Brink's BALLSINESS or whatever and demoted/benched/sent down.
The very, very brief glimmer this season where the Flyers PP ran at roughly league average for a couple weeks came when they put Drysdale and Frost on the same unit and those two were able to rotate with each other and set up good looks.
Otherwise, they're just playing a different sport/in a different era than the rest of their team. The Flyers get almost all of their scoring in transition and very rarely hold sustained zone time. All chasing and shooting, very little patience and precision. Torts demands an active, inefficient forecheck: If you're not running into something in a corner, you're just not Playing the Right Way. Farabee and Frost, on the other hand, both function better when they forecheck high in the zone and read/intercept breakout passes—Frost is particularly brilliant at that. It's a great talent to have! But it's just not how the team wants them to play.
TL;DR is that the Flyers are a franchise run by retrograde idiots who assemble rosters full of one-dimensonal idiots and get mad when the non-idiot players try to play anything other than idiot hockey.