This week’s serving of Broad Street Buzz content you might have missed.
The week kicked off with the Columbus Blue Jackets coming to terms with Restricted Free Agent defenseman Zach Werenski on a new contract extension, and we looked at how it could impact the Philadelphia Flyers own RFA in Ivan Provorov.
Chugging along with our 2019-20 Player Expectation series, Samuel Morin needs to have a strong Training Camp and preseason if he expects to earn the Flyers seventh defenseman spot.
A real game of hockey took place! The Flyers hosted the New York Islanders at the PPL Center for their 2019 Rookie Game.
Sadly, things didn’t break Philadelphia’s way as the club lost to their Metropolitan Division foe 5-4 in a shootout.
Though the Flyers couldn’t obtain the victory, there were still plenty of things to remain positive on about the Rookie Game.
A thing. It happened. The Flyers inked Provorov to a six-year, 40.5 million dollar deal a day before camp got underway, erasing all speculation that the Russian blue-liner would holdout heading into the regular season.
Though it’s great that the team took care of their top-pair defenseman in Provorov, General Manager Chuck Fletcher still has to turn his undivided attention to Travis Konecny, and we looked into what’s reportedly holding their negotiations up.
Fletcher announced during the first day of camp that forward Nolan Patrick will be week to week with an upper-body injury, which will likely force the 2017 Second Overall Selection to miss the first and second preseason games of the year.
With a long-term contract deal under his belt, the pressure will be on Provorov now more than ever to bounce-back from his dreadful 2018-19 outing.
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The Flyers will be in preseason action this next week, and hopefully, they’ll be able to walk away with a win or two. Also, sign Konecny soon please, Chuck.
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