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Nate Thompson traded to Flyers for a 5th Round Pick


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Thompson, at 35, is far from the beast he used to be in his younger days, but he still plays a pretty good brand of physical hockey.
I kept seeing many Flyers fans complain that the team was "too soft", and they they don't get "dirty enough" in the trenches, etc, etc...

Well....here ya go. Thompson, along with Grant, will go a ways to address some of that, without being big liabilities on the ice.

More importantly for Flyers fans, Thompson comes with a very reasonable price tag for the remainder of the season, Philly doesn't have to keep him beyond that if they don't want to, he does a good job of not only winning faceoffs (still a 55% guy...give or take), but taking care of the puck with minimal turnovers, adds leadership from the perspective of a guy who really has seen it all (even off the ice demons he dealt with), and serves as the PERFECT rental, if that is to be the case, for a Flyers team that really shouldn't be getting into the playoffs, but just may well do that, and he will be helpful in keeping Philly from being an easy toss out once there.

All this for a 5th rounder for 2021's draft.
What's not to like here?

 

Flyers aren't quite ready to make any sort of trading "splashes", and moves such as this and Grant are perfect for where this team is on the development curve.

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