There must be something to having brothers playing on the same team together.
Less than 24 hours after the Pittsburgh Penguins traded Jordan Staal so that he could play with his big brother Eric Staal for the Carolina Hurricanes, the Toronto Maple Leafs sent defenseman Luke Schenn so that he could play with his younger brother Brayden Schenn in Philadelphia.
In return, the Flyers sent promising but often-injured James van Riemsdyk to Toronto.
On the surface, the move appears to give the Flyers a bit more immediate grit while the Maple Leafs get a player with excellent skills and the ability to put the puck in the net.
The Flyers have plenty of highly skilled players—like Claude Giroux, Scott Hartnell, Wayne Simmonds and Daniel Briere—who can put the puck in the net right now, so perhaps they can afford to be without a player like Van Riemsdyk, who played in only 43 games as a result of injuries in 2011-12.
Van Riemsdyk scored 11 goals and 13 assists in his limited action and was never able to show signs of becoming the promising player he had been in his first two years with the Flyers.
He scored 15 g ...
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