A very bad trade for mtl

Getting rid of Price's contract is good for them since they need a rebuild.

So a whole lot of junk for great assets.

What is the junk and what are the assests?

Flyers add Couturier and Provorov

For what? Ownership of the Habs.

for Alzner and DLR

I don’t think this trade happens Flyers may give up a young Dman but I doubt they give up Frost. Not that the trade is unfair because it’s pretty even and well crafted. The Flyers move a lot of there dead weight and instantly become a contender with Price in net, while the Habs blow out the old regime.

Trading for Price is a huge risk with potentially a huge reward.

I think it would cost more, but not much more.

Frost and Ratcliffe are Philly's first and second picks from 2017, both of whom they traded up to select (https://www.nhl.com/flyers/news/flyers-sign-2017-draft-picks-morgan-frost-isaac-ratcliffe--philadelphia-flyers/c-290586480) so that's an offer of two firsts and two seconds, plus a five-drafts-ago first round bust (http://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/flyers/breaking-down-why-sam-morin-flyers-odd-man-out-defense), a couple of average veteran checkers who occasionally go on point streaks (but more often don't), and a goalie who, like Price, was awesome last year but is not awesome this year. Unlike Price, Elliott was not awesome before the last couple of years, though. Price has a solid body of work to stand on.

But to also get Pacioretty, I feel like Montreal probably also wants a goalie prospect from that long list there, plus a couple of late round picks and lesser prospects, so that in five years, they still have someone to point to and say, yeah, okay, the Flyers won four Cups, we've still got Bobo, down with the Phantoms...

But for the Flyers I like that this leaves them over 3M in cap space to rent a winger.

For the Habs, it gives them three decent young players, two old guys to flip at the deadline, a starting goalie to flip eventually, a reclamation project on defense, and a couple of good picks.

It's a good offer. But there's no way they're trading Price. Right?

That is god awful for the Flyers. They want nothing to do with Prices contract and a winger who isn't as good as some people say he is.

For an overpaid goalie and an average winger? In your dreams.