Quoting: Tjm220
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.