TRADES:
To Philadelphia: 2009 7th Round Pick
To Anaheim: 7th Round Pick (208th)
To Philadelphia: Steve Eminger, 3rd Round Pick (84th)
To Washington: 1st Round Pick (27th)
To Philadelphia: 1st Round Pick (#19), 3rd Round Pick (#67)
To Columbus: R.J. Umberger, 4th Round Pick (#118)
Note - The Flyers traded away their 2nd round pick to Washington for Washington's 2007 2nd round pick, which the Flyers used to pick up Kevin Marshall. They traded their 3rd round pick to Los Angeles for Jaroslav Modry and their 5th round pick to the New York Islanders for Mike York. They have traded their 4th round pick for the Columbus Blue Jackets for the 19th overall pick.
TFH - The dreams of many young hockey players around the world will become a reality as tonight begins the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa, Ontario. The Philadelphia Flyers hold the 27th pick in the first round tonight, and four more picks throughout the day on Saturday. Stay tuned to The Flyers Hive for all your up to date Flyers draft coverage including picks and possible trades.
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hopefully we can make some sort of deal or at least find a diamond in the rough , who knows anything is possible, and considering the good players we have pick in the late going of drafts we should be ok
Agreed. I'm still really pissed off over this. We trade a legit all around NHL player who is excellent in any forward position away for a guy who may never crack the Flyers lineup. Umberger is going to be a great player under Hitch, I know it. Best of luck, Umby.
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I think we can all agree with ya. This does suck. What they hell are they thinking?? I wonder what Umby feels about this.... I'd be pissed if I were him! He totally got us through an entire series of the playoffs almost singlehandedly and I felt like he really enjoyed playing for Philly.
Good luck bro, I hope we see ya back playing for Philly sometime.
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Agreed. I'm still really pissed off over this. We trade a legit all around NHL player who is excellent in any forward position away for a guy who may never crack the Flyers lineup. Umberger is going to be a great player under Hitch, I know it. Best of luck, Umby.
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I think we can all agree with ya. This does suck. What they hell are they thinking?? I wonder what Umby feels about this.... I'd be pissed if I were him! He totally got us through an entire series of the playoffs almost singlehandedly and I felt like he really enjoyed playing for Philly.
Good luck bro, I hope we see ya back playing for Philly sometime.
It sucks to let a guy of this caliber go, but you have to look at it from a management standpoint.
We've got an incredible influx of offensive talent coming up through the system over the next few years (Giroux, JVR, etc), and in all likelyhood, he wasn't going to get the money he desired with Carter signing first.
In Columbus, RJ's got another young team with a bright future, and playing with a guy like Rick Nash should make him forget about missing Philly fairly quickly.
I'm not happy we lost him, but Homer's already acknowledged the talent we have coming up on the offensive side of things, and shoring up the blueline has to be our number one priority this summer.
I saw this coming the second we signed Carts up, it's business.
If Clarke pulled this move, I would be worried. Homer knows what he's doing, though.
If Hatch would have just retired after the season, we might have worked something out.
I bet you Homer is furious Hatcher just won't call it quits. Atleast with the Eminger trade, Jason Smith is out of the picture. Time to throw some money at a free agent defenseman.
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Big, big mistake passing this guy up. Sleeper pick of the draft, hands down.
I'm not too sad about moving Umberger for picks.
A) His 50 pts puts him in line for a $4-5M cap hit, which we simply couldn't afford if we were to plug the #3-4 d-man hole.
B) With the offensive firepower coming up through the organization (plus the depth we already have) there would be no place for him in the lineup
C) His trade value was at an all-time high right now
D) We get him out of the conference and into a good position on a team that can use him and maximize his potential. A win-win-win deal.
Gaining that 1st (which we used on Sbisa) allowed us to pick up Eminger for the 27th pick, who I see as a great pick-up in the Coburn mold in terms of getting a guy with huge potential that just needed a change of scenery.
I feel happy and sad about the draft. I knew that we weren't going to be able to sign all of the players and I really didn't want to see Umby go. However, if this doesn't happen and he left for nothing then we would have been worse off. We ended up getting two good picks for him. Both D-Men are a couple of years away but this was a good move. Umby wasn't coming back to Philly next season no matter how badly we wanted it to happen. The other thing I keep telling myself is that he was at his highest trade value right now and it is all based on playoff performance because he didn't have a great year for us in the regular season.
Overall, I thought we did a good job in the draft. If two of these guys are able to crack the Flyers lineup in the next three years it will be a good draft. I wouldn't expect to see much more than that considering the number of picks and when they occured.
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So sad 
I wonder what Umby feels about this.... I'd be pissed if I were him! He totally got us through an entire series of the playoffs almost singlehandedly and I felt like he really enjoyed playing for Philly. 
