What I am listening to Scott Laughton de Flyers, Rasmus listoinen with a deadline for exchange.

The Flyers Philadelphia had an optional skate on Tuesday morning before their game That night Against Calgary’s flames. Most of the team, perhaps still fatigued from a late flight home during the weekend, took that option to rest instead of getting on the ice.

No Scott Laughton. The striker was one of the two skaters to pull his practice shirt and tie his skates. Because? The young Bobby Brink wanted to practice tips, which required, of course, a shooter. Laughton forced.

It was representative of the type of teammate that Laughton has been for the Flyers during the last dozen years, and the type of teammate that a possible suitor would be if he made a deal with the flyers for the 30 -year -old striker and the lockers of the costume before the exchange deadline for the 3 pm on Friday.

Do not be mistaken, the main office of the Flyers is still concerned with potentially eliminating Laughton from the team. At least some in the organization believe that when the Flyers plan to be competitive again, maybe as soon as the next season, or two more seasons, they will be attentive to a Pedigrí player from Laughton. That is, someone who can kill penalties, play the center or wing, move up and down the alignment and increase intensity when games are more important.

These features are also why other equipment can meet the high sale price of the Flyers before Friday.

On Tuesday a report arose that up to eight teams have called Laughton; However, it is likely that only a handful of them have been involved in serious discussions with the Flyers.

While I cannot confirm what teams are, there are three that probably make more sense: the Toronto Maple Leafs, which according to the reports have been interested in Laughton for a while; Winnipeg’s jets, which could be attracted to Laughton not only for what it brings but, as a club that has problems attract free agents, due to the remaining season in their treatment; And the New Jersey Devils, who could also use help in the middle, particularly if the number 1 Jack Hughes loses a significant amount of time.

With respect to Toronto, it is worth taking into account that Craig Berube is still tight with many people in the Flyers organization, and after he was fired from the blues last season, he was often seen in the press box in Philadelphia. He probably knows, as much as anyone with the Maple Leafs, exactly what they would be obtaining in Laughton.

The first round of the Maple Leafs would probably have to be the starting point for any Laughton agreement, unless the Flyers were in love with the Fraser Minten prospect, a 6 -foot Toronto selection of 6 -foot 2 -inch 2 inches of 6 feet and 6 feet in 2022 that has two goals and four points in 19 games in the NHL. According Colega Jonas SiegelHowever, “only if you can return a center for the figure of Leafs to consider that the MINTEN moves, and even then probably doubt.”

The money would also make a possible Flyers-Maple Leafs treatment more complicated, since the Maple Leafs with liquidity problems would probably need some retention in the salary of $ 3 million of Laughton this season and next. That means that Flyers could have to recover some salary, something that is probably reluctant to do, considering how important it was for them to obtain the books of $ 5 million of Joel Farabee in an exchange with the flames on January 30.

Winnipeg had four representatives in the press box on Tuesday night, including the assistant of the general manager Larry Simmons, despite the jets they play in Long Island. Part of that is because they are establishing their headquarters in the commercial function line in Philadelphia (they play the Flyers on Thursday night), but the general manager of the Flyers, Daniel Briere and the general manager of the Jets, Kevin Cheveldayoff, were seen chatting a little in the press box at the Mts Center on Saturday night.

The Jets have their own first round selection for each of the next three seasons, but they also have a deep list of central perspectives, according to our Latest classifications of prospects.

Brad Lambert, the first round of the Jets (No. 30 in general) in 2022, is currently with Manitoba Moose De Ahl, where he has only four goals in 43 games. Lambert has “a couple of seasons up and down,” according to colleague Scott Wheeler. Brayden Yager, whom the Jets acquired from Pittsburgh last summer for Rutger McGroarty, has some pedigree as the general selection No. 14 of the Penguins in 2023, while Kon Walton is a center of 6 feet and 6 that has a solid season with the Wolves Sudbury of Ohl and has “an impressive handling and sensation of a player of a player of its size,” according to Wheeler.

Laughton, of course, knows that something could come, something that hilariously transmitted last weekend with his viral recreation of “The Last Super” after a dinner in Winnipeg. While I still believe that he wants to remain in Philadelphia, my feeling is that at least he is intrigued by the perspective of a Stanley Cup race with an accountant team.

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– Scott Laughton (@laoughts21) March 1, 2025

Even if it ends in Winnipeg, they are still the best NHL team so far this season, and is just one more season of free free agency in 2026.

In other words, if Flyers are still looking for a Laughton player to fill a hole in 2026-27, the man himself could be available.

Until Tuesday night, nothing had changed with respect to the Defense Rasmus Ristolainen. As First reported Here last week, the interest in the great right -hand shot was warm, and even that can be exaggerating.

It seems unlikely that Ristolainen moves, unless it is some type of package with Laughton, or in a great success treatment for the first -line center that Briere has admitted that he is looking for.

(Photo of Scott Laughton: Emilee Chinn / Getty Images)