On this topic, I agree with Bergevin and he does have a good track record of not losing trades. We can't be looking at Ghost offensive ability only. It's an overall game approach and his play in his own end might not result in what you imagine. I don't know for sure so the price I pay is not a full one for a player not trending well
Ask yourself why the Flyers would like to move on from him and you understand what my potential concerns are
It gives nothing to win trade if in the end the team loses.
His job is to make the team better, not win trade in a nutshell.
You're talking like we have gold right now defensively on Left or that Bergevin is able to find some other solution…..Chiarot, Mete and Reilly/Kulak have all been close to bad this year in their own zone. Gost would not be a downgrade in that part of the game, but at least he's better offensively than all of them (probably combined) and he would be the only D able to play the QB position on the PP. There, he would giant upgrade.
Maybe putting him with Weber instead of Braun or Gudas would also helped him a ton too.
And maybe also having Price backing him up instead of the total crap goaltending the Flyers had over the last few years also helped his confidence.
And as for questions….maybe Gost asked for a trade for all we know.
Maybe they have other need somewhere they wants to fill and have enough depth there
They do need to make some Cap room to breathe a little.
Gost has been their best producing D since he's in the league, he's 26.....and here we are thinking was smarter to signed someone like Chiarot, Alzner, Kulak and Rielly.