The New Unending Flyers thread

[Docs]

DeAngelo will be a free agent

I'm expecting/hoping DeAngelo to be a Hurricaine by next week, once his tenure with the Flyers reaches 1 year and he is eligible to be traded back with the Flyers retaining salary.

I also don't expect them to spend serious money until Michkov comes over and they see how their prospects have developed.

[zambonir]

Yeah I'm pretty sure the Canes trade is still considered a done deal.

If Couturier, Atkinson, Sanheim and Hart are all still Flyers at the 2025 trade deadline then the rebuild will have been accelerated. But let's see if they make it to the 2024 trade deadline (or even July) first.

[Docs]

Ivan Fedotov will remain in the KHL for another year, signing a new contract with Moscow. The interesting part is that he had a contract with the Flyers that the KHL is not honoring - something both leagues honored in the past by respecting players under contract in the other leagues - which may come into play with Michkov meaning the Flyers don’t necessarily have to wait for his contract to expire. Whether the player and his family choose to risk breach of contract is a whole other issue.

[zambonir]

He is actually signed to a two-year contract, for a couple of weeks now i think but it was only just validated by the KHL. But yeah it will be interesting to see what gets honored and doesn't in the coming season (his second, or Michkov's third).

[bkeich]

Did the announcement happen to mention what caliber of rifle was pointed at Fredetov when he signed his new contract with KHL?

[Aquapong]

It’s Russia, comrade Keichanov. Probably 5.45x39.

Cates and York both signed for two years at reasonable rates. Both will still be Rfa’s at the end of those deals.

[Docs]

So ummm….deangelo is still on the flyers? I had read a quote from the Carolina GM stating they intended to honor the trade and there were reports yesterday that the deal would be announced yesterday, but now there are reports that they are holding out for a different defender. Maybe deangelo will get a better return at the trade deadline.

[zambonir]

Yeah it seems like since they legally couldn't finalize the deal either team could walk away from it. I don't think the Flyers can wait until the trade deadline at this point. Not because of the money, but for playing time. They already have seven defensemen w/o DeAngelo, and with Attard and Andrae in Allentown.

Ideally Carolina is unable to pull the trigger on something else and it still happens.

[Aquapong]

Lycksell is signed for two years. I presume he’ll be an Rfa after as well.

[bigegypt0417]

Philadelphia Flyers Waive Tony DeAngelo For Purposes Of Buyout

[phillychuck]

Well that ended just about exactly the way the fans expected it to when he arrived. The probability of a good outcome was just so remote.

[bkeich]

I guess burning Fletcher in effigy would be a little too much. He makes Colangelo and Chip Kelly look like geniuses. I am sure that there are GM's in the Hockey Hall of Fame, is there an opposite enshrinement possible in the basement?

Is it possible Fletcher was actually in the Rangers / Islanders / Devils payroll? (Just kidding, not a conspiracy)

[Aquapong]

Fletcher did the same to a good Wild team. What did we expect?

Still don’t know what happened with DeAngelo. Obviously he’s persona non grata for some reason. It’s a shame we can't trade him even for a late round pick.

[zambonir]

O'Connor at least makes the case that the buyout ramifications are actually more useful to the Flyers than the retention ramifications. But that also depends what they were supposed to get from the Canes.

It's still kind of impossible to understand how Fletcher gave up what he gave up not just for the rights to that particular player, but when he was a restricted free agent.

I don't actually think Fletcher was anywhere near as terrible as those other guys, he was just executing the plan Comcast foolishly had for the franchise. The crime of that deal is that they were even building a team to win games last year to begin with. That they thought D'Angelo could help them do that is laughable but it would have been just as wrong to give up those assets for a better player

[zambonir]

The Canes are probably going to get Karllson and they already have Brent Burns. If they fail on the first count they probably just figure they have other options.

[Docs]

One of which is now deangelo for free

[zambonir]

True true, though they will probably have to pay him more (bizarrely). Or maybe about the same (as the $2.5 it was going to cost them via the Flyers).

[Docs]

the Hurricanes signed defenseman Tony DeAngelo to a one-year, $1.675 million contract - was it not possible for the Flyers to buy DeAngelo out later in the summer and wait out the Hurricanes trade?

[zambonir]

was it not possible for the Flyers to buy DeAngelo out later in the summer and wait out the Hurricanes trade?

Pretty sure it was not. One of the contract extensions opened up a 48-hour buyout window.

[zambonir]

Comcast Spectacor’s Hilferty speaks out on Sixers’ complaints about the Wells...

While it's just a drop in the water compared to the main reasons the Sixers want out (i.e., to make more $) it's also true that anything that hurts Comcast (in terms of them leaving the arena and competing with the old arena for concerts and events) and benefits the Sixers also benefits the New Jersey Devils.