[Speculation] Philadelphia Flyers Willing To Take On Salary

[RWJC]

Philadelphia Flyers Willing To Take On Salary

 

October 10th, 2023 at 9:12pm CST • By Josh Cybulski

 

Anthony Di Marco of The Fourth Period is reporting that the Philadelphia Flyers are prepared to weaponize their cap space to acquire additional assets. The Flyers begin today with less than $1MM in salary cap space, a number that would translate to roughly $3.9MM at the NHL trade deadline. Now that number might not seem significant, but the Flyers can easily free up over $6MM by placing defenseman Ryan Ellis on LTIR, something they’ve been hesitant to do thus far, but are willing to do to make a trade work.

 

After years of being slammed up against the salary cap, the Flyers have finally created roster and salary cap flexibility after a summer in which they moved on from veterans Kevin Hayes, Tony DeAngelo, and Ivan Provorov. General Manager Daniel Briere seems fully committed to rebuilding the Flyers and appears willing to take on undesirable contracts in exchange for future assets.

 

Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported just two weeks ago that the Flyers were open to taking on Ottawa Senators forward Mathieu Josephand his $2.95MM cap hit in exchange for a high prospect or a first-round pick, something Ottawa appears uninterested in entertaining. However that could change if they start the season slow without their second and third-line centres.

 

While a Joseph deal hasn’t materialized the Flyers will likely have their pick of suitors as the flat cap has created a financial landscape in which 19 NHL teams are within $1MM of the salary cap ceiling (including Philadelphia). There are a lot of teams that see themselves as Stanley Cup contenders who will be hard-pressed to make in-season improvements unless they can move out some salary, this is where the Flyers cap space could be leveraged to acquire assets.

 

The Flyers are early in their rebuild and are at least three or four years away from turning the corner. With that in mind, any contract they take on will probably fall into the one to three-year range similar to the contract they acquired with Cal Petersen.

 

Philadelphia has several of their own undesirable contracts as well as over $5MM in dead cap space for the next few seasons in the DeAngelo buyout and the retained salary on Hayes.

 

https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2023/10/philadelphia-flyers-willing-to-take-on-salary.html#ref=home

[Ghostsof1915]

Garland! Come on down! Gritty wants to meet you.

[Chickenspear]

1 minute ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

Garland! Come on down! Gritty wants to meet you.

He can be Gritty's Mini-me

[Rick_theRyper]

For a first Rd pick! No thanks

[DeNiro]

No we’re not paying a 1st or Podkolzin to dump Garland that’s ridiculous.

 

Continuing to make desperate moves to get out of cap trouble will just continue to ensure this team never gets better.

[Alflives]

4 minutes ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

Garland! Come on down! Gritty wants to meet you.

How friggin’ funny would it be if Garden Gnome got traded to a craperolla team like the Flyers?  Trade the little feller to a craperolla club do he can be a loser. 

[RWJC]

Maybe not a 1st but if there’s a deal where we take someone off their hands that fits our need as well perhaps we could reduce any penalty we might pay to offload the Garland contract. (Eg. Garnet Hathaway)

Flyers GM Briere was a small player…perhaps he sees value despite Garland’s stature

Edited October 11, 2023 by RWJC

[Alflives]

1 minute ago, DeNiro said:

No we’re not paying a 1st or Podkolzin to dump Garland that’s ridiculous.

 

Continuing to make desperate moves to get out of cap trouble will just continue to ensure this team never gets better.

The Benning affect will be with us for another 5-7 years. So close to 20 years affected by that guy. 

[Alflives]

Just now, RWJC said:

Maybe not a 1st but if there’s a deal where we take someone off their hands that fits our need as well perhaps we could reduce any penalty we might pay to offload the Garland contract. (Eg. Garnet Hathaway)

 

Rather have Guddy back. 

[DeNiro]

1 minute ago, RWJC said:

Maybe not a 1st but if there’s a deal where we take someone off their hands that fits our need as well perhaps we could reduce any penalty we might pay to offload the Garland contract. (Eg. Garnet Hathaway)

 

They offer Travis Sanheim.

[RWJC]

4 minutes ago, DeNiro said:

They offer Travis Sanheim.

yeah that would probably be the first convo, but with what I proposed in Garland they become younger and acquire a potential top 6 on their roster, shed 2.375 mill off the books this year and next in trading out an overpriced grinder, and likely get a sweet pick too (perhaps a 3rd).
 

Basically they get Garland at half price for two seasons whereby they play him top 6 mins and he can up his value and perhaps flip him at this or next TDL. Seems plausible to me but there are likely many suitors for their cap space and with much more to offer 

Edited October 11, 2023 by RWJC

[RWJC]

7 minutes ago, Alflives said:

Rather have Guddy back. 

Guddy doesn’t want to play here and Guddy is more of a defensive mess when playing against speed, more than Myers at his worst.
 

He has size and that’s it. His contract is also atrocious and not what we need. Sorry to disagree Alfred

Edited October 11, 2023 by RWJC

[Alflives]

1 minute ago, RWJC said:

Guddy doesn’t want to play here and Guddy is more of a defensive mess when playing against speed, more than Myers at his worst.
 

He has size and that’s it. His contract is also atrocious and not what we need. Sorry to disagree Alfred

Garlsnd’s contract is terrible too. Guddy is the kind of return we can expect. 

[GrammaInTheTub]

3 minutes ago, Alflives said:

Garlsnd’s contract is terrible too. Guddy is the kind of return we can expect. 

I sure as hell did not see Guddy getting the contract he did. I found it to be one of the bigger puzzling shockers. 

[RWJC]

9 minutes ago, Alflives said:

Garlsnd’s contract is terrible too. Guddy is the kind of return we can expect. 

Then I’d rather keep Garland and raise his value. That’s the smarter move than an annual overpay for a heavyweight pilon in Guddy. 
 

 

4 mill per into 25/26 season with a M-NTC. That’s shooting yourself in the foot.

 

Edited October 11, 2023 by RWJC

[Outsiders]

18 minutes ago, Alflives said:

The Benning affect will be with us for another 5-7 years. So close to 20 years affected by that guy. 

@Alflives These Benning stains will not come out! Shame on him! Benning

 

 

[Coryberg]

19 minutes ago, Alflives said:

Rather have Guddy back. 

[Rekker]

13 minutes ago, GrammaInTheTub said:

I sure as hell did not see Guddy getting the contract he did. I found it to be one of the bigger puzzling shockers. 

I damn near fell off my couch when I saw that deal for Gudbranson.

[Bobby Lou]

[RWJC]

5 minutes ago, Rekker said:

I damn near fell off my couch when I saw that deal for Gudbranson.

 

So did Guddy!

His contract celebratory song (a classic):

 

 

[VegasCanuck]

Yup, "willing to take on salary..." is NHL speak for, flip us your next 1 or 2 first round picks...

[canucks curse]

34 minutes ago, Bobby Lou said:

Do you have anymore gum ?

[canucks curse]

TO PHI

Podz

Hogz

Garland

 

To VAN

Scott Laughton

Sean Walker

 

 

[PhillipBlunt]

2 hours ago, Ghostsof1915 said:

Garland! Come on down! Gritty wants to meet you.

[PhillipBlunt]

Travis Sanheim for Conor Garland. That’s it.