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Being just under is a better picture than was being painted on the socials yesterday.
Still not ideal for where the Flyers currently are, but a better situation than being over (which was the speculation yesterday).
The number on this deal is so good, I’m even more disappointed the Flyers didn’t get a bona fide Top 4 Dman on UFA day.
Danny shot his wad… no more money to spend. In fact, was reading earlier that they’re now over the cap (though they can put Ellis on LTIR, something they’ve not done the past couple of seasons).
Elliott Friedman reporting 5x$5.15
Nice work, Danny
He got the Rasmus Ristolainen deal, and is a much better player (even if he is still a work in progress). Definitely a good deal by Briere.
what’s the flyers goal after yesterday? what is the plan? they sign guys who will really not improve the team. they are still going to be bad. why not then just evaluate what you have in-house. keep the cap space to for down the line to see if any deals pop up or to broker a deal to get additional assets/players back.
just more spinning in the hamster wheel.
Have to appreciate a franchise that spends to the cap ceiling just to finish last in their division.
Above-900 NHL seasons:
Rittich 7 of 10
Vladar 1 of 5Flyers crack goaltending coaches and team doctors will fix him tho. — Tomahawk
Vladar has averaged 25 games per season in the 4 years he’s been an NHL regular, with the highest total being 30 games. Hell, his career high was 41 games for an ECHL team back in 2017/18. Based on the averages he’s had as an NHL regular (and his career high), is giving Ersson somewhere in the area of 50-60 games really “sharing the load?”
I get it, the pickings were slim. But based on the information above, throwing the money they did at what on the surface appears to be another below average goaltender doesn’t seem overly wise.
but i get it: flyers bad. — black_francis
Well, their record over the past decade pretty much tells us this, but hey, business as usual!
Depends on the guy. Will his leaving after 25-26 create a hole they’ll have to refill again next summer? I don’t think there’s a goalie out there I’d be confident enough in to go beyond 2-3 years. A lot of guys, RFA and UFA have gotten taken off the block through trading and resigning. I’d go 4-5 years on either the right Dman or goalie but I’m not sure either of those guys is available. I was a little off on my dead space number. It’s $6-7M. So basically, if Zegras delivers in 25-26, you can reup him with what is dead money this year and have what his current cap hit is, which is $5.75M, to do other things. Think about that. How is that an issue? The Flyers have cap money to play with this year and I’ll start thinking more deeply about next off season if and when they fall out of playoff contention. When you’re building, starting with the foundation, then doing the framing and so on isn’t kicking the can down the road. It’s how that happens.
When you have no long-term plan, especially when trying to build something, you’re merely kicking the can down the road.
