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The Flyers and goalie Michal Neuvirth have agreed to a two-year extension worth $5 million. In addition the Flyers also re-signed forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare to a two-year, $2.9 million deal.
The Flyers have several players who are pending free agents at the end of the season and all of them are viable trade candidates. Here is a look at the five most likely Flyers to be moved on Wednesday.
A 4-0 win over the lowly Avalanche showed that the Flyers aren’t the lowest of the low in the NHL this season. That said, a win like this is only worth two points in the standings, leaving the Flyers with a lot more work to do if they want to make a playoff run, as unlikely as it is.
On the eve of the NHL trade deadline, the Philadelphia Flyers were in need of a victory against the league’s worst team to keep their playoff hopes within reason. However faint those hopes may be, the Flyers kept their slim chances alive with a 4-0 thumping of the Colorado Avalanche.
With the trade deadline fast approaching, here are 25 points pertaining to the state of the Flyers
With the trade deadline less than 24 hours away after the Flyers and Colorado Avalanche face off, both teams could look significantly different following the deadline. The opening face-off is set for 7 p.m.
As the playoffs start to draw closer for the minor leagues, both the Flyers AHL and ECHL affiliates took hits with unsuccessful weekends. Meanwhile, some of the junior prospects continue to show promise.
Flyers defenseman Brandon Manning was suspended for two games for a hit to the head on Pittsburgh forward Jake Guentzel in Saturday night’s Stadium Series loss.
The Flyers are not trending upward like they were at this time last season. They are also running out of time, with 21 games to go, the trade deadline just two days away and the Eastern Conference being as competitive as ever with five teams within four points of each other and three points of a playoff spot. The Flyers are not one of those teams. At this point, it seems inevitable that the Flyers will not make the playoffs. And that may be for the better.
In the inaugural season for the Philadelphia Flyers, the roster was full of NHL veterans selected from the 1967 NHL expansion draft. One of those would be the first Flyer to reach the 20-goal plateau wearing the Orange and Black, Leon Rochefort.
