The 2025 offseason is about to enter the dormant dog days of summer, but that doesn’t mean we can’t look forward to the next time the Flyers shake up their roster. Whether it be an early season shakeup or predicting the 2026 trade deadline, which Flyers are most likely to get traded next?
Number 5: Bobby Brink
Brink’s name popped up in some trade rumors during the summer but nothing ever came of it. He’s also fighting for his job on current winger corps on the main roster. He’s also a pending RFA in 2026. There’s a lot of things working against Brink’s long-term future on the Flyers.
If Porter Martone or Alex Bump make the main roster in 2025-26, it will probably only push Brink further down the depth chart. Chances are he doesn’t possess a ton of value on his own, but as a throw in piece to land some kind of top player may be the best service he has for the organization moving forward.
Number 4: Christian Dvorak
The entire caveat of the Dvorak signing was that it’s a one-year deal and he can be easily flipped at the trade deadline. The Flyers probably aren’t a bonafide playoff team and could very well be sellers by the time March rolls around. Unless he turns in a career year, the chances he’s a Flyer beyond the conclusion of the 2026 season is very unlikely.
Number 3: Owen Tippett
Tippett is another one of the random wingers hanging around on a very crowded main roster and if he continues to just exist, banking on his untapped potential that will clearly not come to fruition, they have to consider moving him.
He’s got a 10-team no-trade list kicking in during the 2026 offseason, so if the Flyers want the clearest path to move him, the trade deadline would be the best time to do it. If they want all the cap space at their disposal entering the highly-touted summer of 2026, ditching Tippett and his $6.2 million aav until 2032 would be a great way to go about that.
Number 2: Aleksei Kolosov
The Flyers are about to enter the 2025-26 season with five goalies under contract, and none of them are any good. One of them in particular has been a bit of a problem child for the organization over the last year, and that is 23-year-old Aleksei Kolosov.
If he’s not going to cooperate again, or is clearly the odd man out at the NHL level, at this point it’s just better the Flyers trade him away. There are plenty of teams in need of a goaltender and could take a swing on the once-prized Kolosov. Let the guy be the main attraction of someone else’s circus.
Number 1: Rasmus Ristolainen
With the benefit of hindsight, the Flyers should’ve absolutely dealt Ristolainen at the 2025 trade deadline. But they didn’t and he almost immediately went back on IR and underwent surgery on the same arm he did last summer. What state his body is in when he returns is a huge question mark, but considering he’s still under contract until 2027, they really shouldn’t hesitate to move him at the next available opportunity. Just gotta hope he has any value left by the time the 2026 trade deadline rolls around.
Honorable mentions
Egor Zamula
Zamula got more opportunities under John Tortorella than most of his younger peers combined. Will they continue under Rick Tocchet or will it finally be put up or shut up time?
Either way, he’s an RFA at the end of the season and if he doesn’t take this season to prove he’s anything more than replacement-level talent, trying to sell him to a playoff team for a pick or two at the deadline may be the way to go.
Ivan Fedotov
Fedotov is probably the most unlikely name to get moved on this list, but if he finds himself in the AHL to start the season and he’s throughly stomped down the depth chart (especially if Kolosov sticks around and for some reason succeeds) he could look to move on to another NHL opportunity. He hasn’t been pretty in the Flyers’ crease, but teams are so desperate for help that someone will surely take a waiver on the 28-year-old.
By: Dan Esche (@DanTheFlyeraFan)
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