The Flyers Should Move Heaven and Earth for Jakob Chychrun
By Collin Coyne
When you look at it from a general standpoint, Jakob Chychrun would walk into a Flyers roster immediately becoming the best defenseman on the team. Yeah, the team has a “wealth” of left-handed d-men, but the struggles of players like Myers and Morin have showed that developing players takes a great volume of risk.
Chychrun doesn’t need to be developed. He is ready to play at the NHL level. A player like Konecny may feel like a big loss, and may admittedly hurt a team struggling to score. But Chychrun is better than Sanheim by a great measure, and there is no guarantee any mid first round pick, which is what Flyers fans should expect with this roster, could even touch Chychrun’s talent.
I’ve seen people say that Sanheim and Konecny would be an easy done deal, but adding the first makes it a horrible deal. Konecny, in reality, is a throw in. Sanheim is struggling offensively and the first round pick could be anything. It could even be a 23-year-old elite defenseman signed at a cheap cap hit for three more years.
Oh wait…