Friedman: Preds might be choosing between trading Ellis and Ekholm; Philly potentially interested in Ellis

[Starat327]

The Preds should be choosing between firing Hynes and Poile. Philly can have either for free.

Sadly, they'd probably both be upgrades.

 

[Mark Stones Spleen]

holy crap Ellis is 30? It felt like he was doing damage at the WJC just yesterday

Funny, I thought "Ellis is only 30?".
Feels like he's been around forever.

 

[swflyers93]

Our guys have all crapped the bed this season. Sometimes, the forwards make all the mistakes that just makes for a bad team. It is hard to not watch them without wanting to pull your hair it or throw something. Now, most people say 4-0, yeah, time to change the channel. As far as trading, I didn't realize Ellis had a big contract, I'll pass. Ekholm, eh. We don't have a veteran leader back there. So it makes us Flyers fans mad that if Chuck knew this and didn't bother to get a vet to help all these vets back there. Justin Braun is not that guy. Provy can't fix everyone's and his mistakes. The average age of our defense is 26 years old.

 

[dingbathero]

They are still good. Myers is figuring some things out right now and not at his best. Provy and Sanheim have been good. York just won best Dman for his league. Zamula is coming too. The biggest issue to me is that you still need a #1 RHD bc Provy is a #2 LHD. That’s obviously a big issue.

Who on the Flyers would you trade for him?
Sanhiem?
Myers?

Who from our forward group would be moved?

 

[belair]

What's Philly's expansion situation? Any chance that Patrick gets floated in an Ellis deal? I see more than 7 forwards worth protecting there.

 

[Tripod]

What's Philly's expansion situation? Any chance that Patrick gets floated in an Ellis deal? I see more than 7 forwards worth protecting there.

likely JVR or Voracek exposed given their cap hits

Giroux(NMC) Hayes(NMC) Couts Konecny Patrick Lindblom + 1 of JVR/Jake

Provy Sanheim Myers

Hart

Exposed JVR/Jake, Aube Kubel, Ghost, Braun, Hagg


So can't trade for Ellis until after ED if they were interested

 

[TrivialCheese]

likely JVR or Voracek exposed given their cap hits

Giroux(NMC) Hayes(NMC) Couts Konecny Patrick Lindblom + 1 of JVR/Jake

Provy Sanheim Myers

Hart

Exposed JVR/Jake, Aube Kubel, Ghost, Braun, Hagg


So can't trade for Ellis until after ED if they were interested

I think Nashville could definitely go 4 &4 in the ED, then turn around and trade Ellis. I would think Nashville would be interested in someone like Frost coming back, but I'm honestly not sure of Ellis's value at all. Just factoring in his skills, you'd think the value is similar to Ekholm, but contract and age are definitely the biggest factor here.

 

[sxvnert]

Completely bogus narrative being pushed by Friedman as a favor to Poile. Poile completely f***ed up by giving the inferior undersized 30 year defenceman an 8 year deal instead of Ekholm.

There isn't a single team in the NHL who would take on Ellis @ 6,250,000 for another six years without a 1st rounder attached.

After the Weber trade, and Johansen + Duchene contracts Poile should be fired after this season. Bring in a new management + coaching duo to clean up this mess he created.

 

[BigFatCat999]

enh,.... if the Preds keep winning, everything is out the window and every price is up.

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

There isn't a single team in the NHL who would take on Ellis @ 6,250,000 for another six years without a 1st rounder attached.

lol

 

[TheKingPin]

Who on the Flyers would you trade for him?
Sanhiem?
Myers?

Who from our forward group would be moved?

I wouldn’t make any move. Develop the kids on D and see what happens. Hart comes along with it. Figure out the forwards and what’s needed for D later.

 

[dingbathero]

I wouldn’t make any move. Develop the kids on D and see what happens. Hart comes along with it. Figure out the forwards and what’s needed for D later.

I'm on board with this.

I would like to think tho, if you can get a player of Ekholm (or even Ellis as he has been in talks) for a Sanheim, Myers, Ghost, etc:

I think I'd be comfortable making that move. It would bring some stability to the back end. I wouldn't be thrilled about it at first but I'd live with it.

Do you think either would out perform Ekholm or Ellis over their careers? Given the stats at the current age and NHL exp I'm not sure they would. Something else I'd have to consider. Older than our players, yes.... but I do like the idea of having some more experience there which would pair nicely with our fwd group.

It's been a very off year for a lot of our players. Tough call.