In today’s NHL rumors rundown, there is news out of Philadelphia as Wayne Simmonds has signed a one-day deal to officially retire and Ryan Johansen’s injury means the team can’t assign him to the AHL.
The hip injury keeping Flyers forward Ryan Johansen out of the lineup is already inhibiting their roster flexibility.
Ryan Johansen has yet to play a game in the Philadelphia Flyers organization, and, apparently, he is not going to be joining the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the AHL just yet, either.
When the Philadelphia Flyers acquired Ryan Johansen in the Sean Walker trade on March 6, they were not aware that he was injured. And, to be fair, why would they have been?
It appears that we have, at least partially, our answer as to why the Philadelphia Flyers waived Ryan Johansen immediately after acquiring him in the Sean Walker trade with the Colorado Avalanche.
The NHL trade deadline always raises plenty of questions about what teams can or cannot do contract-wise, as well as how certain moves impact different teams.
Philadelphia Flyers general manager Danny Briere met with the media for a press conference on Thursday evening, discussing the Flyers’ trade deadline moves thus far, as well as Nick Seeler’s contract extension.
The Philadelphia Flyers acquired Ryan Johansen in the Sean Walker trade on Wednesday – a player who briefly played under Flyers head coach John Tortorella in 2015.
It’s debatable that Brad Treliving had his phone on during Wednesday when half the league decided to have an impromptu trade frenzy. And while it seems
Chris MacFarland was a very, very busy man on Wednesday afternoon, but the Colorado Avalanche general manager still made time to visit with the media after making two big trades earlier in the day.
The Colorado Avalanche were quietly watching other teams gear up for their respective playoff runs. Until they weren’t. In what ended up being a chaotic 30 minutes, the Avalanche made a pair of trades that addressed immediate roster needs.
The Colorado Avalanche have announced that they have made two trades today with two big name players on the team. I will break it down since they were in two separate transactions by the team.
The Colorado Avalanche have acquired defenseman Sean Walker from the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for a 2025 first-round draft pick and forward Ryan Johansen.
Just a week after the Colorado Avalanche missed out on Chris Tanev, they’ve gone and acquired a different right-shot defenseman. Sean Walker, who has had a tremendous season with the Philadelphia Flyers, is headed to the Avalanche.
A team that just won the Stanley Cup two years ago is making it known they want to go for it again. On Wednesday, the Colorado Avalanche acquired defenseman Sean Walker and a 2026 fifth-round pick from the Philadelphia Flyers.
Four players have been placed on waivers on Wednesday with just two days to go until the March 8 NHL Trade Deadline. The most notable is forward Ryan Johansen, who was acquired by the Philadelphia Flyers just minutes before the waiver deadline in a deal that sent defenseman Sean Walker to the Colorado Avalanche.
The Avalanche traded for one of the more highly-coveted right-handed defensemen on the market.
When the Colorado Avalanche traded for Ryan Johansen this offseason, the team was hoping he could potentially fill the void at the second-line center spot.
As with every game, you take the good with the bad, so time to take a look at the pluses and the minuses in the game against the Vancouver Canucks for the Colorado Avalanche.
When the Colorado Avalanche went and acquired Ryan Johansen over the summer, I wasn’t immediately convinced he was the answer at second line center. After watching tape of him in Nashville, I was even more sure that he wasn’t going to get the job done.
It was clear that soon-to-be 31-year-old Ryan Johansen just didn’t fit into the rebuild plans of incoming Nashville Predators general manager Barry Trotz.
The Avalanche have made a move to add to their forward group as they’ve acquired center Ryan Johansen from the Predators in exchange for the rights to pending free agent forward Alex Galchenyuk.
Nashville Predators center Ryan Johansen will undergo surgery on his right leg today, according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
Johansen’s role will now have to be filled internally, and though the Predators have some interesting candidates to receive increase ice time, their depth will be tested without one of their highest-paid players in the lineup.
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