The career of Mike Richards

Created by: KakkoForMauriceRichardAward

Team: 2019-20 Philadelphia Flyers

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 7, 2020

Published: Jul. 7, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Drafted 24th overall in the 2003 NHL draft, Mike was a very good player for a very long time before he fell off a cliff in the 2010s.

He made his NHL debut in the 05-06 season, scoring 11 goals and 34 pts.

It wasn't until the 07-08 season that he exploded offensively, scoring 28 goals and 75 pts.

After putting up back to back 60 pts seasons in 09-10 and 10-12, Philly decided to move him to LA in a pretty big trade (details are below).

PHI got a bunch of younger players while LA got a player who could help them win the cup, and he did that in 2012 and 2014 (still haven't watched that Martinez goal without feeling something in my stomach, I still believe to this day that that LA team was overrated but that's for another day.

In the 13-14 season, he only scored 11 goals and 41 pts. Now, he did play in an all out defensive system but still. He probably hoped he could bounce back in the 14-15 season but he only put up 16 pts, including just 5 goals.

The 15-16 season was his very last in the league, putting up just 2 goals and 5 pts with the Caps.

His career ended with 181 goals and 487 pts in 749 games, pretty good numbers still.

Trades

PHI

Wayne Simmonds, Brayden Schenn and 2nd rounder in 2012 (Devin Shore)

LAK

Mike Richards
Rob Bordson

Buyouts

Retained Salary Transactions

Radko Gudas: $1,005,000 (30%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
25	$81,500,000	$72,823,651	$0	$3,395,000	$8,676,349

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Giroux, Claude $4,137,500$4,137,500 RW, C NMC UFA - 3	Hayes, Kevin $3,571,429$3,571,429 C NMC UFA - 7	Voracek, Jakub $8,250,000$8,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 5
van Riemsdyk, James $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Couturier, Sean $4,333,333$4,333,333 C UFA - 3	Konecny, Travis $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 6
Raffl, Michael $1,200,000$1,200,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Laughton, Scott $2,300,000$2,300,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Pitlick, Tyler $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW UFA - 1
Farabee, Joel $925,000$925,000 ($400,000$400K) LW, RW UFA - 3	Thompson, Nate $1,000,000$1,000,000 C UFA - 1	Grant, Derek $700,000$700,000 LW, C UFA - 1
Lindblom, Oskar $925,000$925,000 ($212,500$212K) LW UFA - 1	Patrick, Nolan $925,000$925,000 ($2,650,000$3M) C, RW UFA - 1	Aubé-Kubel, Nicolas $700,000$700,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Provorov, Ivan $4,725,000$4,725,000 LD UFA - 6	Niskanen, Matt $5,750,000$5,750,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Elliott, Brian $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 1
Gostisbehere, Shayne $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Braun, Justin $3,800,000$3,800,000 RD UFA - 1	Hart, Carter $730,833$730,833 ($132,500$132K) G RFA - 2
Hägg, Robert $1,150,000$1,150,000 LD UFA - 1	Sanheim, Travis $3,250,000$3,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 2
Morin, Samuel $700,000$700,000 LD, LW UFA - 2	Myers, Philippe $678,889$678,889 RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jul. 7, 2020 at 8:20 p.m.

KakkoForMauriceRichardAward

Brace for the Storm

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Jul. 7, 2020 at 8:56 p.m.

ZiggyPalffy

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Spare me, how was that team overrated?

We can argue that if the Blues didn't beat the **** out of us physically we would have won the 2013 cup as well making that 3 in a row.

There's nothing overrated about a team that could destroy any skill team by breaking there bodies and defensively shutting them down every night.

So please, enlighten me...

Jul. 7, 2020 at 8:59 p.m.

ZiggyPalffy

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Wait, I know why you think they were overrated, because they beat your team in game 7 double overtime. Sucks to sucks:/

Dont worry you're still my favorite Rangers fan on here, but I dont appreciate it when your mind occasionally leaves your body.

Jul. 7, 2020 at 9:00 p.m.

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