{"id":491360,"date":"2026-03-07T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/491360\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:59:18","slug":"wild-acquire-bobby-brink-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/491360\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Acquire Bobby Brink \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wild are addressing their need for additional scoring depth by acquiring winger\u00a0Bobby Brink<\/a>\u00a0from the Flyers, according to Michael Russo of The Athletic<\/a> and Frank Seravalli of Victory+<\/a>. Defenseman\u00a0David Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek<\/a>\u00a0is the return headed to Philly, both add. There is no extension in place between the Wild and Brink, who\u2019s a pending restricted free agent, Anthony Di Marco of Daily Faceoff<\/a> reports. The trade has since been confirmed.<\/p>\n

Brink is in the back half of a two-year, $3MM bridge deal he signed with Philly in 2024. He\u2019ll be looking for a notable raise this summer. The 2019 second-rounder has grown into a stable top-nine piece during that time, and while he\u2019s not the top-six center that Minnesota has been aiming for<\/a>, it was clear the Wild were at least looking for a middle-six winger to augment their depth. They reportedly explored acquiring\u00a0Nick Foligno<\/a>\u00a0from the Blackhawks, and while this doesn\u2019t take them out of that race, it is a notable move to replenish some of the scoring upside they lost earlier this season by trading Liam Ohgren<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Marco Rossi<\/a>\u00a0to the Canucks in the\u00a0Quinn Hughes<\/a>\u00a0deal.<\/p>\n

Since emerging as a full-time piece in the Flyers\u2019 lineup back in 2023, Brink has averaged around a half a point per game. That hasn\u2019t changed much this season with 26 in 55 games, but his finishing has taken a step forward, notching a career-high 13 tallies while shooting at 14.4% clip. He was averaging north of 15 minutes per game for Philly, playing mostly on their second line with Noah Cates<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Matvei Michkov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The inclusion of Brink, who\u2019s still only 24, gives the Wild nine double-digit goal scorers on their roster up to this point in the season. They may still be looking for muscle near the bottom of the lineup. Brink certainly doesn\u2019t provide that at just 5\u20198\u2033 and 169 lbs, but he plays much larger than he is and is on pace for 100 hits.<\/p>\n

For the Flyers, it\u2019s a simple swap of young players from a position of excess to a position of need. The right-shot Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek now finds himself on his third team in four years since being drafted sixth overall by the Blue Jackets in 2022, but he\u2019ll never have a clearer path to NHL minutes than he has now. The 22-year-old was on an assignment to AHL Iowa at the time of the trade, but with\u00a0Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a>\u00a0likely on his way out of Philly today amid a rush of offers<\/a>, the Flyers had a pressing organizational need for a righty who can challenge for top-four minutes.<\/p>\n

That gives Ji\u0159\u00ed\u010dek a prime opportunity down the stretch to showcase himself in the extended ice time he\u2019s so desperately desired to be effective. In 84 career NHL appearances over the last four years, he has a 2-11\u201313 scoring line and a -8 rating while averaging just 13:33 of ice time per game. Assuming Philly recalls him in short order, that number should jump closer to 20 with the potential for power-play opportunity, something Charlie O\u2019Connor of PHLY Sports<\/a> reports played a role in the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wild are addressing their need for additional scoring depth by acquiring winger\u00a0Bobby Brink\u00a0from the Flyers, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4838,796,5,38,30,4,56,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-491360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-bobby-brink","9":"tag-david-jiricek","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-minnesota-wild","12":"tag-newsstand","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","15":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116188254283435775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491360","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=491360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}