{"id":892436,"date":"2026-10-23T23:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892436\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:40:17","slug":"morning-notes-jiricek-canadiens-hellebuyck-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/892436\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Notes: Jiricek, Canadiens, Hellebuyck \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Flyers could have a bit of a roster crunch coming up when their pair of injured defensemen \u2013 Cam York<\/a> and Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a> \u2013 both return from their injuries. Both are on IR at the moment, and when they return, the Flyers will need to find a way to clear one or two defensemen off their active roster. While the club has two defensemen who are waivers-exempt on its roster \u2013 Oliver Bonk<\/a> and Hunter McDonald<\/a> \u2013 The Athletic\u2019s Kevin Kurz wrote<\/a> that \u201cit\u2019s difficult to see the Flyers reassigning Bonk back to the AHL soon,\u201d even when York and Ristolainen return.<\/p>\n

Instead, Kurz floats the possibility that the Flyers could consider placing defenseman David Jiricek<\/a> on waivers for the purpose of reassigning him to the club\u2019s AHL affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. According to Kurz, \u201cthe Flyers shouldn\u2019t worry about waiving Jiricek,\u201d as Kurz \u201ccan\u2019t imagine he\u2019ll get claimed with the Flyers already being his third organization.\u201d Jiricek, 22, was the No. 6 overall pick at the 2022 NHL Draft, but has not lived up to his status as a former top prospect. Originally selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets, Jiricek was dealt to the Minnesota Wild for a haul of draft picks in November 2024. The Wild flipped him to the Flyers near last season\u2019s trade deadline in exchange for winger Bobby Brink<\/a>. Jiricek is averaging just 14:48 time on ice per game this season, and that\u2019s including 2:07 per game on the power play. He was a healthy scratch for the Flyers\u2019 most recent game.<\/p>\n

Other notes from around the NHL:<\/p>\n

On yesterday\u2019s Insider Trading segment for TSN<\/a>, Pierre LeBrun reported that the Detroit Red Wings are \u201cactively scouting\u201d the Montreal Canadiens in the event former captain Dylan Larkin<\/a> changes his mind and agrees to include Montreal on the list of teams he\u2019s willing to be traded to. According to LeBrun, the Red Wings are \u201cfully aware\u201d of the kind of trade packages Montreal has \u201caggressively put in front of\u201d rival teams in its longstanding search for an impactful top-six trade addition. The Canadiens reportedly chased after Matthew Knies<\/a> and Kirill Marchenko<\/a> in the past, though the two ended up traded for each other. Now, the Canadiens are interested in the Red Wings\u2019 No. 1 center. While there is no firm indication on what Montreal\u2019s offer for Larkin looks like, one would have to imagine there is at least a possibility the trade package is centered around University of Michigan star center Michael Hage<\/a>.
\nTSN\u2019s Darren Dreger also reported<\/a> on the Insider Trading segment that the Winnipeg Jets have reached an agreement with goaltender Connor Hellebuyck<\/a> to delay the date on which Hellebuyck will report to the team and undergo a physical until after the club\u2019s Heritage Classic outdoor game this weekend. Hellebuyck, who has been suspended without pay for failure to report to the team in training camp, is looking to end his holdout and return to the team as he waits for them to fulfill his outstanding trade request. The Jets appear open to Hellebuyck\u2019s return, but it seems they don\u2019t want Hellebuyck\u2019s return, and the immense attention that will inevitably generate, to distract from the Heritage Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers could have a bit of a roster crunch coming up when their pair of injured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[223024,183717,1786,80904,1787,385,1789,99,4827],"class_list":["post-892436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-connor-hellebuyck","tag-david-jiricek","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-dylan-larkin","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}