Today, at 3pm, the NHL froze rosters ahead of the 2021 NHL Expansion Draft protection deadline. Earlier this week, Chuck Fletcher mentioned how most teams would prefer to wait until after the expansion draft to make trades. He must have crossed his fingers on all of us because the GM made a power move for a new top-pair defenseman.
Per Elliotte Friedman and Frank Seravalli, the Philadelphia Flyers have executed a trade with the Nashville Predators. Philippe Myers and Nolan Patrick were enough to score Ryan Ellis. Ellis still has six years at $6.