The Philadelphia Flyers, for the past 10 years, have had 6 different starting goalies. Their principle of, "any goalie works with a good team" has been with the team for quite a while now and it appears that things are changing starting today.
For the past few days, there have been talks that the Flyers were going to overpay a good goalie to play for them. They've been talking to Ilya Bryzgalov, goalie for the Phoenix Coyotes who wanted out. So today, in the morning, they announced that they were trading Jeff Carter to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Jakub Voracek, a 1st round pick, and a 3rd round pick. Carter had a great season this year and finished 7th in the league in goals. Carter is also 26, a pretty young guy.
Then the Flyers made another move. They traded their captain, Mike Richards to the Los Angeles Kings for Brayden Schenn, tough guy Wayne Simmonds, and a draft pick. Richards had an okay season for Philly with a solid 66 points.
And of course, a little bit after these 2 signings, the Flyers announced they signed Ilya Bryzgalov for 9 years and $51 million. So the Flyers are looking for a complete change. They had another great year this season but once again flubbed away in the playoffs because of their lack of stable goaltending. So it's possible that the first 2 trades were to make more room for the big signing (cap limit was just recently raised to $64 million by the way). But this move might come back to hurt the Flyers. They lost 2 big weapons including their captain and they're going to have to regain the depth that they had this year.
From another vantage point, however, the Kings just got a veteran who can shape their team this year a little more. And for the Blue Jackets, they now have a dynamic duo of Rick Nash and Jeff Carter. Combined in the last 3 seasons, they have 287 goals. Keep an eye on Columbus this season.
Just a few other news from hockey:
-Montreal Canadiens have resigned defenseman Andrei Markov for 3 years. Markov is already 32 and has a history of injuries and only played 7 games last year BECAUSE of injury.
-The San Jose' Sharks resigned Devin Setoguchi to a 3 year deal. Seto has been amazing for the Sharks for the last few years and Shark fans should be happy they locked him up.
-The official schedule has been set up for the 2011-2012 NHL season. The first game for the Winnipeg team (who will most likely be named this weekend! http://winnipeg.nhl.com/) will be at home against the Montreal Canadiens. The Winnipeg team will play the Phoenix Coyotes (the team that barely avoided the same fate as the Thrashers) TWICE. Once at home, once on the road. The Bruins are playing the Canucks once this year, in Boston. And to find out your teams schedule look it up on their home page.
For the past few days, there have been talks that the Flyers were going to overpay a good goalie to play for them. They've been talking to Ilya Bryzgalov, goalie for the Phoenix Coyotes who wanted out. So today, in the morning, they announced that they were trading Jeff Carter to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Jakub Voracek, a 1st round pick, and a 3rd round pick. Carter had a great season this year and finished 7th in the league in goals. Carter is also 26, a pretty young guy.
Then the Flyers made another move. They traded their captain, Mike Richards to the Los Angeles Kings for Brayden Schenn, tough guy Wayne Simmonds, and a draft pick. Richards had an okay season for Philly with a solid 66 points.
And of course, a little bit after these 2 signings, the Flyers announced they signed Ilya Bryzgalov for 9 years and $51 million. So the Flyers are looking for a complete change. They had another great year this season but once again flubbed away in the playoffs because of their lack of stable goaltending. So it's possible that the first 2 trades were to make more room for the big signing (cap limit was just recently raised to $64 million by the way). But this move might come back to hurt the Flyers. They lost 2 big weapons including their captain and they're going to have to regain the depth that they had this year.
From another vantage point, however, the Kings just got a veteran who can shape their team this year a little more. And for the Blue Jackets, they now have a dynamic duo of Rick Nash and Jeff Carter. Combined in the last 3 seasons, they have 287 goals. Keep an eye on Columbus this season.
Just a few other news from hockey:
-Montreal Canadiens have resigned defenseman Andrei Markov for 3 years. Markov is already 32 and has a history of injuries and only played 7 games last year BECAUSE of injury.
-The San Jose' Sharks resigned Devin Setoguchi to a 3 year deal. Seto has been amazing for the Sharks for the last few years and Shark fans should be happy they locked him up.
-The official schedule has been set up for the 2011-2012 NHL season. The first game for the Winnipeg team (who will most likely be named this weekend! http://winnipeg.nhl.com/) will be at home against the Montreal Canadiens. The Winnipeg team will play the Phoenix Coyotes (the team that barely avoided the same fate as the Thrashers) TWICE. Once at home, once on the road. The Bruins are playing the Canucks once this year, in Boston. And to find out your teams schedule look it up on their home page.
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