{"id":682615,"date":"2026-06-03T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682615\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:54:10","slug":"vladar-contract-priority-for-flyers-this-offseason-gm-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682615\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladar contract ‘priority’ for Flyers this offseason, GM says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zegras was second for the Flyers with 67 points (26 goals, 41 assists) in 81 regular-season games and led them in the playoffs with six points (two goals, four assists) in 10 games.<\/p>\n

Drysdale was second among Philadelphia defensemen with 32 points (eight goals, 24 assists) in 78 games and had four points (two goals, two assists) in 10 postseason games.<\/p>\n

“I’m not worried about that at this point,” Briere said. “I’m pretty sure we’ll find ways to make it work. We want them in Philly. I strongly believe they want to be in Philly. And usually … when you have two sides that want to be together, you find a way.”<\/p>\n

Briere said the Flyers will take a wait-and-see approach with forward Matvei Michkov<\/a>. The 21-year-old will enter the last of the three-year, entry-level contract he signed July 1, 2024. Michkov, who is eligible to sign another contract with Philadelphia on July 1, had 51 points (20 goals, 31 assists) in 81 regular-season games but had one assist in eight playoff games and was scratched twice. He led NHL rookies in 2024-25 with 26 goals and tied for second with 63 points.<\/p>\n

“I think after this season … he’s a very competitive guy,” Briere said. “I think he wants to prove to everyone that there’s more there. I know (what) he prefers at this point; it’s the best thing for him to wait and come back and show us what he’s all about.”<\/p>\n

Briere also said forward Owen Tippett<\/a>\u00a0is cleared from the internal bleeding issue that kept him sidelined for the four-game sweep by the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n

“Everything’s cleared on that front,” Briere said. “Everything is going well there. Nobody was worried about it affecting his training or affecting next season. It’s an internal injury that just needed a little bit of time to heal.<\/p>\n

“He was really close to coming back in the Carolina series. There’s a good chance if there had been a Game 5, most likely in Game 6, he would have been back for that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zegras was second for the Flyers with 67 points (26 goals, 41 assists) in 81 regular-season games and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-682615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}