{"id":795051,"date":"2026-07-31T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795051\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T08:22:16","slug":"buy-or-sell-connor-mcdavid-to-the-flyers-and-the-latest-nhl-trade-and-free-agency-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/795051\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy or Sell Connor McDavid to the Flyers and the Latest NHL Trade and Free Agency Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 3, the Philadelphia Flyers signed<\/a> Anaheim Ducks center Leo Carlsson to a five-year, $90 million offer sheet. Six days later, the Ducks matched the offer<\/a>, giving the 21-year-old center an average annual value of $18 million.<\/p>\n

The impact of Carlsson’s league-leading AAV will affect contract negotiations involving NHL stars for years, including promising young players such as Adam Fantilli of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Like Carlsson, Fantilli is a 21-year-old restricted free agent center coming off his entry-level contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given that Fantilli is also a first-line center like Carlsson, he could seek an AAV comparable to that of the young Ducks star. They both play a somewhat similar style, with Carlsson scoring 141 points in 201 games while Fantilli has 140 points in 213 contests.<\/p>\n

Aaron Portzline of The Athletic acknowledged the effect Carlsson’s contract could have on Fantilli’s negotiations. However, he also suggested<\/a> that the Blue Jackets center could accept a deal similar to that of Connor Bedard, who inked a five-year deal<\/a> on July 18 with an AAV of $15 million.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s $15 million, $18 million, something in between, or perhaps a little less, Fantilli will be getting a big raise on his next contract. Carlsson and Bedard have set the market, and now the Blue Jackets must pony up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On July 3, the Philadelphia Flyers signed Anaheim Ducks center Leo Carlsson to a five-year, $90 million offer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-795051","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\/795051","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=795051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}