Flyers Notes: Team creates room for deal
Sam Carchidi The Flyers aren't just clearing cap space for the fun of it. They're trying to set up a deal that would give the offense more life.
The Flyers yesterday freed more than $2 million of cap room by putting goalie Ray Emery ($1.5 million salary) on the long-term injured reserve list - he could still return this season - and placing seldom-used winger Riley Cote ($550,000 salary) on waivers.
The Flyers now have about $2.8 million of cap space - and that figure could grow, of course, if a player on their current roster is in a deal. A team's roster cannot surpass $56.8 million.
Emery's Status Still Unknown By Tim Panaccio - CSNPhilly.com When it comes to the Flyers and injuries, the expression ‘no news is good news’ often doesn’t apply.
Especially, when the player in question is goaltender Ray Emery.
Flyers' Emery might need hip surgeryHTR wonders - Will the Flyers need to trade for a goalie? Michael Leighton started his third straight game in goal for the Flyers last night in place of Ray Emery, who underwent an MRI yesterday on his sore left hip.
Flyers Listening to Deal for KovalchukBy Tim Panaccio
CALGARY, Alberta — Dion Phaneuf is off the market. Ilya Kovalchuk is still there.
And the Flyers are listening to what Atlanta has to say about the Russian sniper.
Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren was on his cell phone Monday morning at the Pengrowth Saddledome, conceivably looking for a trade partner.
Rich Hofmann: It's no time for a Flyers' panic move IT HAS come to this: that a good effort, one point out of two, a shootout loss at home to the Pittsburgh Penguins, is being viewed as a step in the right direction for the Flyers. Such is their current state. Such is their fragility.
The last thing they need now is a trade.
Trade winds following Flyers Sam Carchidi
Sixteen scouts were at the Wachovia Center to watch Ottawa outlast the fading Flyers, 2-0, on Thursday night.
That's a stunningly high number of scouts, and, with Flyers starting goalie Ray Emery sidelined for at least six weeks, speculation is running rampant that the club is interested in a goaltender.
Flyers' Emery out six weeks with muscle tear Sam Carchidi
Slumping Flyers goalie Ray Emery, who has not won a game in his last five starts, will have surgery today to repair a torn muscle in his lower abdominal wall and will miss at least six weeks, the team said.
Rumors, Stevens firing upset Flyers captain Richards By FRANK SERAVALLI
Mike Richards was stunned.
Minutes after news broke that the Flyers decided to fire John Stevens and replace him with Peter Laviolette, both ESPN and WIP's Howard Eskin reported that Richards relinquished his captaincy to defer to veteran Chris Pronger.
SanFilippo: Forsberg comeback try not a gameThe rinks are larger, but the arena will be smaller. Only a few thousand fans will pack their way into the games of the Karjala Cup, in Sweden next weekend.
There will only be four teams in that tournament, with second-tier talent representing four European countries.
