{"id":407803,"date":"2026-01-14T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/407803\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:26:12","slug":"flyers-activate-jamie-drysdale-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/407803\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers Activate Jamie Drysdale \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Flyers announced<\/a> that they\u2019ve activated defenseman Jamie Drysdale<\/a> from the injured reserve. The transaction was largely expected after the Flyers assigned<\/a> fellow blue liner Adam Ginning<\/a> to the AHL yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Drysdale, 23, has missed a little over a week with Philadelphia after suffering an undisclosed injury against his former team, the Anaheim Ducks. The Flyers have not played well without him \u2014 losing all three games in his absence.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Drysdale will return tonight in what\u2019s expected to be a competitive matchup against the Buffalo Sabres. Drysdale is having a solid campaign so far, scoring three goals and 18 points in 41 games, averaging more than 21 minutes of ice time per game.<\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s not the offensive production that many expected of Drysdale after being selected with the sixth overall pick of the 2020 NHL Draft, it\u2019s certainly a step in the right direction. He\u2019s nearly reached his point totals from last season, when he scored seven goals and 20 points in 70 contests with a -32 rating.<\/p>\n

Now, as Drysdale sits as the third-highest scoring defenseman on the roster, he\u2019s on pace to reach a career-high in points, with his previous being set during his sophomore campaign in 2021-22. Additionally, he\u2019s performing much better on the defensive side of the puck since Rick Tocchet<\/a> took over behind the bench, averaging a 90.9% on-ice SV% at even strength after posting an 84.4% and 85.1% marks in 2023-24 and 2024-25, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers announced that they\u2019ve activated defenseman Jamie Drysdale from the injured reserve. The transaction was largely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[1468,5,4182,4,1467,56,5205,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-407803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-flyers","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jamie-drysdale","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","14":"tag-philadelphiaflyers","15":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115895337121205577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407803","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=407803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}