Montreal Canadiens: Three Trade Offers The Habs Would Accept For Josh Anderson

Philadelphia Flyers

One team that is just so desperate they need to be taken advantage of is the Philadelphia Flyers. They made big trades last season to acquire Ryan Ellis and Rasmus Ristolainen and it failed miserably.

Ristolainen was just bad and Ellis was hurt for almost the entire season. The team dropped way out of playoff contention and traded Claude Giroux at the deadline for a mediocre package since he only wanted to play for the Florida Panthers.

Instead of learning their lesson and moving on, the Flyers decided to double down on what was left of their roster. They re-signed Ristolainen for five seasons and hired John Tortorella as the team’s new head coach. There is no chance they brought in Tortorella with the expectation of a rebuilding season.

But they aren’t nearly good enough to contend so they have to be aggressive and make big trades. That could include Josh Anderson who does kind of feel like a Flyers type of players. The speed. The aggression. The anger. It all spells Philly doesn’t it?

Anderson also played the beginning of his career with Tortorella as his head coach. He also had incredibly kind things to say about Torts last season when he was asked about his former bench boss.

Could the Flyers trade their fifth overall pick for Anderson? Definitely not straight up, but could that be the framework of a deal? It sounds crazy, but what if the Habs were to take on the final year of James van Riemsdyk’s $7 million contract and also offer up the very first pick of the second round?

Maybe. Just maybe. I mean, this team did trade a 14th overall pick and a second round pick last season for Ristolainen and Anderson is a much better player. Add in the cap savings by getting rid of JVR and an early second round pick and the Flyers might be just crazy enough to pull it off.

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