{"id":301430,"date":"2026-10-07T08:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301430\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T08:30:16","slug":"winless-philadelphia-flyers-sign-free-agent-michael-bunting-for-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301430\/","title":{"rendered":"Winless Philadelphia Flyers sign free agent Michael Bunting for rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winless Philadelphia Flyers have signed gritty winger Michael Bunting in the hopes that he can give them a spark following some alarming early-season struggles.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Daniel Briere announced the agreement Tuesday in the aftermath of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/flyers-vs-lightning-score\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">4-1 loss at Tampa Bay<\/a> on Monday night. Bunting&#8217;s contract is worth a prorated $1.2 million after he went unsigned over the summer as an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear how soon the 31-year-old would be able to join the team. Philadelphia next plays at Ottawa on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers have been outscored 17-5 through four games. Opponents have attempted 246 shots to their 122, a margin of minus-124 that is by far the worst in the NHL, with San Jose next at minus-53.<\/p>\n<p>Bunting is an aggressive energy player who has had a scoring touch over his career and brings some much-needed toughness to the situation. He is a veteran of 432 games, counting the playoffs, since making his debut in the league in 2018 and spent last season with Nashville and Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia is his seventh NHL organization after previously spending time with Arizona, Toronto, Carolina and Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winless Philadelphia Flyers have signed gritty winger Michael Bunting in the hopes that he can give them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4843,28,69,4845,71,70],"class_list":["post-301430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-nhl","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}