Confirmed with Link: Isaac Ratcliffe traded to Nashville for future considerations

[kudymen]

I just hope Chuck Fletcher was blown away

 

[Maurice of Orange]

Surprised Fletcher didn’t add a 2nd round pick in 2026 with Ratcliffe to Nashville for the Future Considerations.

This doesn’t seem like a Fletcher type of trade.

What a waste of an early 2nd round pick.

 

[Redpath]

It is backbreaking that the best non-1st round skater we have drafted since 2014 is Oskar Lindblom. What a flop of a pick.

 

[Striiker]

The streak of getting absolutely zero value in every trade continues.

 

[mja]

The streak of getting absolutely zero value in every trade continues.

You have to admit, Chuck made out better here than he usually does. Credit where credit is due.

 

[Striiker]

You have to admit, Chuck made out better here than he usually does. Credit where credit is due.

Maybe Torts made the trade?

 

[ajgoal]

This could be a move to set up more suitors for JvR (or anyone else) by passing him through Nashville and having them eat some salary. But if so, Ratcliffe seems like an odd piece for Nashville to want, so probably unlikely.

 

[GKJ]

Need to clear contract slots to sign college players.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Some of the biggest overpays we have ever seen , Chuck makes his mark by trading a guy for free.

This is a clinic.

 

[Hanover Fist]

Is this what they call winning on the margins?

I honestly wouldnt be surprised if he starts buying with the assumption that healthy coots and atkinson makes a difference

The problem is that the entire management team most likely feels that way. It’s likely that’s why Fletcher still has a job.

 

[RonHextall27]

Nashville just took all of Tampa's picks for the next couple years and chuckles couldn't even pry a late rounder out of them

 

[kudymen]

Maybe Torts made the trade?

Just ask yourself whose name was ON THE LETTER

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Look at what this galaxy brain took away from this.

 

[Starat327]

Look at what this galaxy brain took away from this.

All hextalls fault.

Remember when Ratcliffe was gonna make us all forget about Jake Voracek because of his impressive 12 game cameo?

I remember.

 

[bennysflyers16]

All we can hope for now is the add for Greenway is a later pick.

JVR ,50% retained, 3rd
For
Greenway and 6th

 

[Beef Invictus]

I remember when Ratcliffe was being penciled into this year's roster.

 

[Starat327]

All we can hope for now is the add for Greenway is a later pick.

JVR ,50% retained, 3rd
For
Greenway and 6th

He doesn't want to stuff Minnesota like that. Change our 3rd to a first. Take out the 6th.

 

[kudymen]

I remember when Ratcliffe was being penciled into this year's roster.

By the same guy who called Phil Myers an unbelievable unicorn and now says the hive overrates the prospects?

 

[Beef Invictus]

By the same guy who called Phil Myers an unbelievable unicorn and now says the hive overrates the prospects?

And all these exceptional prospects regressing hard isn't a sign of bad development somehow.

 

[Don Nachbaur 26]

I definitely drank the Hextall kool-aid. Gotta stop getting my hopes up for any draft choices at this point.

My lord, it would be right on Flyers brand for Ratcliffe to turn into Tage Thompson (lite). LOL

 

[bennysflyers16]

I remember when Ratcliffe was being penciled into this year's roster.

Wasn’t even gonna need to use the revolving door either.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

And they actually traded UP to take Ratcliffe.

Had hopes, but the dude has shown he sucks.

Another in a too-long list of early draft busts, of a once heralded prospect group that turned out to be garbage.

 

[Beef Invictus]

And they actually traded UP to take Ratcliffe.

Had hopes, but the dude has shown he sucks.

Another in a too-long list of early draft busts, of a once heralded prospect group that turned out to be garbage.

Maybe trying to develop all of them into try-hard grinders is a stupid idea.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

This may be Fletcher’s best trade.

But knowing that it’s Fletcher Ratcliffe will be a stud now.

 

[TCTC]

It is backbreaking that the best non-1st round skater we have drafted since 2014 is Oskar Lindblom. What a flop of a pick.

I guess what we've learned from the last "rebuild" is that collecting mid/late round picks is pointless. Ghost has been our most productive mid round pick in recent memory and he came from a time when we weren't even rebuilding. You just keep your picks and hope for the best.
For a proper rebuild you need to either be really lucky or you need multiple top 5 picks and as many 1st round picks as possible. As it stands we have neither.