2025-26 Player Grades: Rasmus Ristolainen made it to the playoffs

Rasmus Ristolainen has been somewhat of a lightning rod for criticism of the Flyers’ front office– an easy target given his struggles to stay on the ice. This year proved difficult again for the fifth-year Flyer defenseman, as he managed just 44 games after missing the team’s first 31 of the season due to his ruptured triceps tendon. Credit to Ristolainen, though, as he would play almost the entire rest of the season, logging pretty big minute totals through two playoff rounds in his first trip