My offer for Eichel aside and speaking from my view when I look at the current state of the Flyers. Not one move Fletcher has made helps the Flyers future. Not 2, 3, 5, 10 years down the road. Trading the 22 year old Patrick, the 24 year old Myers and the 28 year old Gostisbehere for Ellis, Jones, Atkinson and Thompson are not good returns for what we gave up. Ristolainen at 26 years of age is the only player under 30 that Fletcher has picked up. This team got older and I’m certain of how much better we really are now. We need to be in on the Eichel talks.
- SuperSchennBros

this is laughable, how good do you think Patrick and Meyers are? Patricks time was to go, glad we at least got something for him, Ellis will be better than meyers now, 2 years, and possibly 3-5 years down the road also. Unless you think Meyers is the next pronger.

Not necessarily. Lot of moving parts in terms of contract length and term for players going the other way, positions of need for Buffalo, etc. SuperShenn’s proposed offer is solid and well thought out, imo.
- BroadSTmayhem

Call it whatever you want but it is not enough. Like I said previously, if Buffalo was willing to trade Eichel for one established NHL player, a strong prospect and a #1 pick, he'd have already been traded. It's not hard to figure out.

this is laughable, how good do you think Patrick and Meyers are? Patricks time was to go, glad we at least got something for him, Ellis will be better than meyers now, 2 years, and possibly 3-5 years down the road also. Unless you think Meyers is the next pronger.
- bradster

Wow, you both missed and made my point in one post. Ryan Ellis will be better now, sure. Is this a contending team right now? Doesn’t look like it to me. Fletcher just put together a half hearted rebuild. Gave up both youth and picks in the process and in my option because he didn’t do much to the offense, we look like a bubble to lower seed playoff team right now at best.

Call it whatever you want but it is not enough. Like I said previously, if Buffalo was willing to trade Eichel for one established NHL player, a strong prospect and a #1 pick, he'd have already been traded. It's not hard to figure out.
- MJL

I agree with you