The Flyers began the new season with some of the top players in the game. Claude Giroux, Taylor Hall, Phil Kessel, Jordan Binnington, and the list goes on. Even though they had this crop of allstars, they also managed to assemble one of the best crops of youngins in the game, including Jack Hughes, Connor McMichael, Joel Farabee, Adam Fox, and more. Despite having the crop of allstars up front that they had, the Flyers struggled during the early goings of the season, and GM Cook decided that was unacceptable and is taking the team towards a rebuild, acquiring more top pieces and first round picks along the way. Lets take a look at these trades:

Trade 1: Brock Boeser to Buffalo for future superstar dman Mikhail Sergachev in a 1 for 1 type deal.

Trade 2: Dman Ryan McDonagh goes to the Jackets in exchange for young dman Vince Dunn and prospect: Jack Dugan. The Flyers are hoping Dugan can have a solid juniors/college career, though this move was more of a cap move than anything. 

Trade 3: Phil Kessel + Y2 2nd round pick is sent to the Senators for Sean Monahan

Trade 4: Taylor Hall goes to the Rangers for a "Hall", getting a couple young reliable players back in Anthony Beauvillier, Travis Sanheim, a solid middle guy in Jaden Schwartz, and NYR Y2 1st round pick.

Trade 4: Another deal with the Rangers, this time sending veteran Claude Giroux and Jordan Binnington to the big apple, in exchange for young superstar Mitchell Marner.

Trade 5: Dylan Larkin + Roman Josi going to Vancouver in exchange for superstar dman Tomas Chabot, Evgeni Malkin, VAN Y2 1st
Trade 6: Carey Price and Y2 3rd round selection goes up to Calgary in exchange for future goalie Jake Oettinger, Craig Anderson, and CGY Y2 1st

Trade 7: Sean Monahan is sent to LA, seeing another young stud in Kirby Dach and LAK Y2 1st round selection coming back to Philly.

Trade 8: David Perron and Markus Granlund are shipped off to Edmonton, bringing back Reid Boucher, Andrew Cogliano, EDM Y2 1st, EDM Y3 2nd

In Short, moving out are: Giroux, Binnington, Kessel, Hall, Boeser, McDonagh, Larkin, Josi, Monahan, Perron, Granlund

Moving in are: 5 additional 1st round selections, 2 of which are sitting outside of a playoff position heading towards the trade deadline, Dach, Beauvillier, Oettinger, Sergachev, Marner, Chabot, Malkin, Sanheim, among others. 

In short, anyone would be hard pressed to find a deeper prospect pool than the Flyers right now, and that will only get deeper after these next two drafts. Are all of these players expected to stay in Philly? No one knows that, but time will tell, and the Flyers certainly have the pieces to build around going forward. 

GM Brent has been floating Matthews name around for about two weeks, hesistant to actually move the young star, but when an offer comes around like today you have to take it

We would like to thank Matthews,Gusev,Johnson for there time with us here in Edmonton.

Duchene & Tarasenko boost the top 6 that we needed and Skjei brings more on the back end. We are hoping this doesnt throw off the chemistry the team has had, but time will tell.

Question is: Is Gm Brent done yet?? 

Answer: No, We want to improve our bottom 6 before the deadline hits!

Rumour is that Andrew Cogliano has demanded a trade!

Los Angeles, CA --

The buzz is palatable here in Los Angeles as the Kings continue their ressurgence in the Western Conference.  Currently riding a 3-game winning steak that has seen the team outscore opponents 8-4, it's no wonder they are the talk of the town.  Although the team has been playing a high-pace brand of hockey, most of the accolades of the team's recent success have fallen on newly aquired franchise netminder, Andrei Vasilevskiy, who has stopped 95 of his last 99 shots. 

The GM of the Kings finally broke his silence since joining the team when he joined Jimmy Fallon on the tonight show last night.  

"We thought it was important to address goaltending right away" he said.  "Our goal differential was one of the worst in the league and while, most of that falls on the team, we felt our goaltending tandem was a little inexperienced and was not playing at the level to be able to overcome the team's defensive deficiencies". 

When asked about the recent controversy surrounding the reported locker room altercation between the team's leading scorer, Connor McDavid, and long-time Kings beat reporter, John Smith, the GM of the Kings downplayed the situation. 

"There was an incident in the dressing room the other night after we played the Oilers at home. Some hands were thrown and I'll just leave it at that"

There was some speculation that newly acquired defensmen, Jack Johnson, was also involved in the altercation after he was quickly waived for reassignment to the Ontario Reign, but the team did not confirm these reports.

Los Angeles, CA --

The Los Angeles Kings made yet another splash earlier today when they acquired dynamic centerman, Sean Monahan, from the Philadelphia Flyers.  The Kings make this move just hours removed from a 7-2 blowout loss at the hands of the Flyers, in which Monahan registered 2 goals.  Business is business, it seems.  Going back to the rebuilding Flyers is a youth package that features promising young rookie, Kirby Dach and the Kings first round selection in the upcoming entry draft.  Dach, although used mostly in a middle six role so far this year - his first as a pro - has yet to register a goal and is an abysmal -18 in 43 games so far this season.  Monahan, on the other hand, is a proven goal scorer, and will more than fill the void left by Tomas Hertl's departure, something that Dach was just not ready to do. The Kings do give up a lot of youth in the deal, but they get back a proven player who is just entering the prime of his career.  Sources say the Flyers will also retain a portion of Monahan's contract as part of the deal, though financial terms were not disclosed. 

Los Angeles, CA  - 

The Los Angeles Kings have secured bonefide franchise goaltender, Andrei Vasilevskiy, in a blockbuster deal that also saw the team receive savvy veteran and defensive specialist, Jack Johnson, and one of the leagues premier 2-way forwards, J-G Pageau.

In a move that obviously took Andrei Vasilevskiy by surprise, the Kings sent leading scorer Tomas Hertl back to the Flames along with former number one, Ilya Samsonov and up and coming defenseman, Anthony DeAngelo.  

This deal comes just moments after the GM of the Kings released a brutally honest assessment of his new team.  This deal appears to address more than one of the immediate needs he outlined. 

The GM of the Kings was not immediately available for comment.