Rasmus Ristolainen and the Philadelphia Flyers are in the midst of a playoff race at this time. The Flyers, of course, nearly made the postseason in 2024. However, a late season collapse sank the Flyers and caused them to miss out entirely.

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Kevin Kurz of The Athletic: (mailbag) It does make some sense that the Philadelphia Flyers would be interested in a top-line center like Elias Pettersson but he does come with some big question marks. He’s also got an $11.6 million cap hit for seven more years. All things considered, that’s likely too much for the Flyers.

The St. Louis Blues are in a tricky spot approaching the March 7 NHL Trade Deadline. After missing the postseason in back-to-back years — something that previously hadn’t happened in 15 campaigns — the franchise is in jeopardy of being left out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the third consecutive time.

The weeks leading up to the trade deadline were packed with big trades, the biggest being the Vancouver Canucks trading J.T. Miller to the New York Rangers and Mikko Rantanen being traded from the Colorado Avalanche to the Carolina Hurricanes.