Rasmus Ristolainen couldn't help but smile when the topic of the trade deadline came up six days ago. This is familiar territory for him. His name has been bandied about at the deadline throughout his ...

The NHL trade deadline often produces two kinds of outcomes: the moves that happen, and the decisions not to make them. For the Philadelphia Flyers, the most intriguing storyline on deadline day ...

Friday's NHL trade deadline came and went, and Rasmus Ristolainen is still here with the Philadelphia Flyers. There was interest in the defenseman, league insiders circulated for weeks, and especially ...

VOORHEES, N.J. — There is some risk in the Flyers’ decision to hold onto Rasmus Ristolainen at the NHL trade deadline. There is no doubt about that. The 31-year-old defenseman has been nagged by ...

The NHL trade deadline is Friday at 3 p.m. ET, and the Flyers have two more games and a so far inconsequential minor-league swap standing as a buffer between them and their final calls for the season.

For the first time in nearly two full years, the Buffalo Sabres will take the ice for a game without Rasmus Ristolainen in their lineup when they host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. After ...

If you had lined up all the stuff that was written and said about an impending Rasmus Ristolainen trade, it probably would have extended all the way back to Finland. But it didn’t happen. Why? At ...