The outcome was somewhat predictable, so when Anaheim matched the Flyers\u2019 offer sheet for Leo Carlsson on Thursday, it didn\u2019t take too many people by surprise, least of all Philadelphia general manager Daniel Briere.<\/p>\n
The GM knew when he signed Carlsson to a five-year, $90-million contract proposal there was a good chance the Ducks were going to match rather than opt for four first-round draft picks.<\/p>\n
Anaheim\u2019s decision to match on Thursday left the Flyers disappointed but Briere vows to keep searching for personnel to make his team better.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe understood this outcome was possible when we made the offer,\u201d said Briere in a statement released by the Flyers on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the result isn\u2019t what we hoped for, our goal does not change. We remain committed to pursuing every opportunity that will strengthen our team and continue to build toward becoming a consistent and perennial contender without sacrificing our future.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a salary of $18 million per year, Carlsson becomes the highest-paid player in the National Hockey League.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, there is a belief that while the Flyers might not make another big splash in this type of transaction this summer, they might still look at ways to improve their defense corps. That could include a possible trade.<\/p>\n
As previously mentioned in a Thursday story, the Flyers\u2019 failed attempt to secure Carlsson should leave some salary space open to re-sign players such as Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale.<\/p>\n
Wayne Fish is a freelance writer. Follow him at www.flyingfishhockey.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outcome was somewhat predictable, so when Anaheim matched the Flyers\u2019 offer sheet for Leo Carlsson on Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,404,127,157920],"class_list":["post-393601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-top-stories-trt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}