{"id":395374,"date":"2026-01-07T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/395374\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:07:11","slug":"flyers-notes-ristolainen-michkov-briere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/395374\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers Notes: Ristolainen, Michkov, Briere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flyers defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/ristora01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a> is no stranger to the rumor mill.\u00a0 Over the last couple of years, he has been a speculative trade candidate heading into the trade deadline but his contract (he has a $5.1MM AAV through next season) and injuries scuttled those talks.\u00a0 Even though Philadelphia entered play tonight in a Wild Card spot, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/sources-philadelphia-flyers-rasmus-ristolainen-available-trade-deadline-christian-dvorak-contract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Faceoff\u2019s Anthony DiMarco reports<\/a> that while the veteran isn\u2019t actively being shopped, he is believed to be available for the right price.\u00a0 The 31-year-old was injured to start the season, only coming back last month.\u00a0 Ristolainen has two assists in nine games this season along with 15 blocks and a dozen hits while he\u2019s averaging over 20 minutes per night of ice time.\u00a0 A right-shot defender who can play on the second pairing is sure to generate some interest on the trade front.<\/p>\n<p>More from Philadelphia:<\/p>\n<p>The team announced (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NHLFlyers\/status\/2008692118429016253\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/michkma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matvei Michkov<\/a> is dealing with a foot injury and is listed as day-to-day. The 21-year-old has had an up-and-down sophomore campaign so far.\u00a0 He has a respectable 23 points in 40 games but has scored just once in his last 16 outings.\u00a0 Michkov suffered the injury on Saturday against Anaheim but didn\u2019t report it to the team until Monday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/flyers\/matvei-michkov-misses-practice-shot-foot-injury-20260105.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to Jackie Spiegel of the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>.<br \/>\nSpeaking pregame to reporters tonight including Jordan Hall of NBC Sports Philadelphia (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JHallNBCS\/status\/2008681991059710309\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JHallNBCS\/status\/2008681790383550576\" rel=\"nofollow\">links<\/a>), GM Daniel Briere indicated that negotiations with pending RFA forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zegratr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-06_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trevor Zegras<\/a> haven\u2019t started yet. Acquired from Anaheim in the offseason, the 24-year-old has bounced back considerably, posting 15 goals and 24 assists in 40 games heading into tonight\u2019s action.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Briere also indicated that while they\u2019re unlikely to be big sellers heading into the trade deadline two months from now, they\u2019re also not going to be swinging big on rentals either.\u00a0 Given where they are in their rebuilding phase, that makes sense although if they remain in the mix into March, a smaller move or two to bolster their roster could still make some sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flyers defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen is no stranger to the rumor mill.\u00a0 Over the last couple of years, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[5,509,56,4526,4185],"class_list":{"0":"post-395374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-matvei-michkov","10":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","11":"tag-rasmus-ristolainen","12":"tag-trevor-zegras"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115853501801321294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}