Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Flyers make another move

The Flyers acquired forward Mike York from the New York Islanders in exchange for center Randy Robitaille and a fifth round pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft on Wednesday.

The Phanatic's take:

Eric Redner: It seems that new general manager Paul Holmgren and Islanders general manager Garth Snow have a connection going on. For the second time in less than a week the two leaders agreed to a swap of players. While Robitaille is a hard worker and was well liked in the city, York brings a little more talent and a little more youth to the team. Don't expect to see many blockbuster trades from this team during the rest of the season, but expect to see some minor deals such as this from clubs that need to fine tune their rosters before the playoffs.

Michael Rushton: Well, it appears that the Flyers are going to try to salvage something. What that is, I'm not sure. Alexei Zhitnik gave the Flyers much needed depth at the blue line while the addition of York is a 28-year-old with more talent than Robitaille. This is the type of move the Flyers will probably make a few more times this year and I'm fine with it. After all, who wouldn't want to see the Flyers back in as an eighth seed and get destroyed -- again -- in the first round. As long they don't give away to many youngsters they have been grooming, a roster overhaul is fine.


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