An online firestorm was created as soon as the Columbus Blue Jackets traded David Jiricek not to the Philadelphia Flyers (or any other team of a fan base that wanted the young defenseman), but to the Minnesota Wild on Saturday. Hellish waves of criticism were vomited on the internet, coming from every single angle of why my team didn’t trade all of those draft picks that the Wild did, to get the former sixth-overall pick.
Now that the dust has settled, more reports are coming out about the Flyers’ involvement in the trade talks and just how likely it was that Jiricek could have ended up in Philadelphia — and what kind of transaction would have to go down to make that happen.