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 Friday’s post NHL trade deadline media session, Flyers general manager Daniel Briere wore a rueful smile when he sort of admonished the pundits who had the big defenseman headed elsewhere. “You guys made a big story – I didn’t know I was trying to sell him,” Briere said at the Flyers Training Center. “You guys made it sound like we were dumping ‘Risto’ for next to nothing. “Look, at the end of the day, Risto has a lot of value to our team. I wasn’t trying to dump Risto, trying to get rid of him. I...
