If We Didn't Bridge Our Stars

Created by: NateElder12

Team: 2017-18 Philadelphia Flyers

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 28, 2017

Published: Jun. 28, 2017

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

Should have locked G/Jake into Forsberg/Tavares type deals when younger instead of having to pay when they hit UFA.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Laughton, Scott	2	$875,000
Vecchione, Michael	2	$1,000,000
Leier, Taylor	2	$815,000
Lyon, Alex	2	$925,000
Stolarz, Anthony	2	$925,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Giroux, Claude	4	$6,500,000
Voracek, Jake	5	$6,000,000
Weal, Jordan	2	$2,225,000
Patrick, Nolan	3	$925,000
Nilsson, Anders	2	$2,750,000

Trades

PHI

2018 5th round pick (FLA)

FLA

Read, Matt ($1,812,000 retained)

Buyouts

R.J. Umberger: $1,500,000
Ilya Bryzgalov: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

Matt Read: $1,812,000 (49.99%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2018
2019
2020

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$75,000,000	$67,148,667	$1,062,500	$1,775,000	$7,851,333

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Lindblom, Oskar $925,000$925,000 ($212,500$212K) LW UFA - 3	Giroux, Claude $6,500,000$6,500,000	Konecny, Travis $894,167$894,167 ($212,500$212K) RW, LW UFA - 2
Weal, Jordan $2,225,000$2,225,000 C, RW, LW UFA - 2	Patrick, Nolan $925,000$925,000	Voracek, Jake $6,000,000$6,000,000
Laughton, Scott $875,000$875,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Couturier, Sean $4,333,333$4,333,333 C UFA - 5	Simmonds, Wayne $3,975,000$3,975,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Filppula, Valtteri $5,000,000$5,000,000 C, LW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1	Lehterä, Jori $4,700,000$4,700,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Vecchione, Michael $1,000,000$1,000,000 C, RW UFA - 2
Raffl, Michael $2,350,000$2,350,000 LW, RW UFA - 2		Weise, Dale $2,350,000$2,350,000 RW, LW UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Provorov, Ivan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) LD UFA - 2	Gudas, Radko $2,345,000$2,345,000 RD UFA - 3	Nilsson, Anders $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA - 2
Morin, Samuel $863,333$863,333 ($500,000$500K) LD, LW UFA - 1	Gostisbehere, Shayne $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 6	Neuvirth, Michal $2,500,000$2,500,000 G UFA - 2
MacDonald, Andrew $5,000,000$5,000,000 RD UFA - 3	Hägg, Robert $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 1
Manning, Brandon $975,000$975,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Giroux, Claude $4,137,500$4,137,500 RW, C NMC UFA - 5
		Voracek, Jakub $8,250,000$8,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 7

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Lindblom, O.		Simmonds, W.		Voracek, J.
	Giroux, C.		Gostisbehere, S.

Power Play 2
Konecny, T.		Weal, J.		Laughton, S.
	Patrick, N.		Provorov, I.

Penalty Kill 1
	Couturier, S.	Laughton, S.
	Morin, S.	Gudas, R.

Penalty Kill 2
	Vecchione, M.	Simmonds, W.
	Provorov, I.	Hägg, R.

Top Comments

Jun. 28, 2017 at 4:42 p.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 59,518

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Nate: I think a lot of teams got caught in that they had to "lock up" best players. Maybe there was the expectation that the cap was going to rise considerably every year. A lot of mistakes were made be lot of teams. Even last year the Panthers felt obliged to lock up Ekblad long term at 7.5m per. We'll see how that plays out.

Jun. 28, 2017 at 5:23 p.m.

NateElder12

Joined: Apr. 2016

Posts: 5,736

Likes: 801

Quoting: palhal

Yeah I know, but I just look at it as they knew Jake/G were going to be 1C/1RW tandem for years and instead of locking them up to better contracts when they had leverage they let it go until they were UFAs by bridging them.

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