Flyers GM Paul Holmgren said to me again this afternoon, he is NOT going to give in and make a trade.

One person in the organization described the situation as "vultures hovering" over the Flyers, trying to make a deal that doesn't carry fair weight.

“This is as bad as it gets,” Holmgren told me. “Who would have ever envisioned the slide we are in? This is a poor time for the Flyers to look at making a trade that would help us. The last thing I need to do is make a bad trade. If something comes along that makes sense, I’d look at it.”

Eklund thinks Ilya Kovalchuk would jump to come here. The Flyers would have to clear a lot of space to do that and it would take Jeff Carter, Scott Hartnell and Braydon Coburn, I feel, to pull that off "if" Atlanta were interested.

Lotta folks think Kovalchuk could end up in Washington.

There are other options, but I'm thinking SCORING and not goaltending and I am thinking major scorer, not intermediate.

Here's my story on CSNPhilly.com:

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