most recent episode of 32 Thoughts: The Podcast<\/a> for Sportsnet, Elliotte Friedman mentioned that he believes the Montreal Canadiens have interest in Ristolainen.<\/p>\n“The Canadiens, I do think they’ve looked at some these D. Some of these guys, like Ristolainen, and guys like that,” Friedman said.<\/p>\n
With the Canadiens being one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference, it is not necessarily surprising that Ristolainen is a defenseman that they are watching. When looking at their blueline, it is fair to argue that they could use another hard-nosed right-shot defenseman, and Ristolainen would provide them with just that.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see what happens between Ristolainen and the Flyers from here. Based on Friedman’s comments, the Canadiens could be a team to watch in the sweepstakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen is the club’s most notable trade candidate leading up to the 2026 NHL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[2300,1468,5,21,4,548,1467,56,5205,4526],"class_list":{"0":"post-476306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-elliotte-friedman","9":"tag-flyers","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","16":"tag-philadelphiaflyers","17":"tag-rasmus-ristolainen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116146030916463376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476306","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=476306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}