Quote How in the hell can a team that is so bad be so tight up against the Cap? Whoever is responsible for the situation in The City of Brotherly Love I hope they are no longer with the team ,They have taken a once proud and successful organization and turned it into a team with no identity or direction (although down is a direction I suppose), this team needs to be torn down and revamped in the worst way. Poor Carter Hart is just wasting his career with this outfit, just watch his post season interview and you will see the kid is not happy with the situation there. Time to blow it up !!! Philadelphia and the fans deserves better.
Hey Rustie,
Looks like the Flyers have less than $3MIL now (like zero). They've been trying to move Van Riemsdyk and his $7MIL and Hayes and his $7.1MIL without success. Van Riemsdyk only has next season left on his deal but Hayes will be hanging around their neck for 4 more years.
https://www.spotrac.com/nhl/cap/ (when you look at the team list, you can click on an individual team and see their roster and cap amounts)
They just hired Torts...he musta known what he was getting into.
Btw...the young goalie (25 y/o) the Flyers drafted when he was only 20 (Ivan Fedotov) is supposed to be one of the best in the world. He's on the books for $925,000 this coming season, but he's stuck in Russia with a military ID card problem (like Kirill Kaprizov of the Wild who's trying to avoid going back to face whatever charges they have to present). He's only played in Russia. He's supposed to push Hart next season for the starting job. A snippet below from "the worldwide leader in sports":
"The first sign something had gone wrong for Fedotov came Friday. Russian media said he was picked up by law enforcement outside a hockey rink in his home city of St. Petersburg, where he'd been filming a documentary with a TV crew, and taken to a military enlistment center. Local news site Fontanka reported he was suspected of evading compulsory military service required of Russian men."
Cheers...hope you're enjoying the summer!!!