They aren’t retaining for 7 years on Coots lol especially not if they are also taking Skinner. You might as well call this team Philly Bendovers because that’s not a reset that’s an absolute fleece of a trade lol

Yeah, this whole thing is kind of insane. But I’m beginning to question what Danny Briere is planning when he’s handing a $3 million contract to a goaltender with a save percentage in the low .800s and an over four goals against average.

Happy to explain it to you.

Flyers were desperate to get a back up goalie because they killed Ersson riding him basically every game for 3 months and he burnt out. Cal Petersen can’t save a beachball coming at him and Sandstrom stops every hard shot he sees and lets in every easy goal he sees. Both of our options sucked. Fedotov wanted to make it worth his while coming to the US since he was make I believe about $1M in equivalent over in Russia. So part of the agreement in getting him over here now was the new contract.

So now Fedotov comes over has brand new equipment that is broken in at all, has two practices, and the Flyers are reeling.

First game he plays he comes in and has an amazing game after Ersson gets pulled.

Second and third game he looked meh at best but the team in front of him complete quit and didn’t help him in anyway.

Also the contract is only for 2 years and Michkov doesn’t come over for 2 years. Or rebuild won’t even begin to be over until Michkov comes over so a contract in a rebuild that will be over with before anything matters isn’t a big deal at all.

Either he sucks and his contract is gone when the flyers want to compete or they found a gem who just had a rough start after the flyers threw him into terrible circumstances.

Yeah on paper it looks weird giving a guy 3 mil for only playing 3 games and had save % of .800. But he had solid numbers playing in the khl and the flyers were desperate of having a steady backup down the stretch. To me i dont think fans should overreact considering its only two years plus the cap is suppose to go up.

I understand your hands are probably tied, but the guy did get arrested because he tried to come over two years ago. I guess it’s a quid pro quo sort of thing. It’s kind of mind blowing how Cal Peterson fell off a cliff, maybe the Sabres dodged a bullet with him after all. I guess Carter Hart’s career is basically over? For the record I like Ersson, but I guess you’re going to run a 1A and 1B tandem until one of them earns the reins.

Yeah I think Ersson will be an everyday starter but more like 50-55 ish game starter instead of 60-65 so they definitely need a solid back up for him. It happened this year with the Flyers and last year with the Phantoms where both teams tried to make the playoffs and rode him into the ground because he was the only real option so just take even a few more games from his plate would help his numbers immensely.

They should run them fairly equally until someone shines.

Hart’s career probably isn’t over, I don’t believe he will play for the Flyers again but I would be shocked if a Canadian team doesn’t trade for him if he is ever reinstated.