To make room for Michael Bunting, the Flyers loaned Alex Bump to AHL affiliate Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n
The move came Wednesday, a day after the club decided to shake up its roster a bit with the signing of Bunting<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bump, a 22-year-old rookie winger, was healthy scratched Monday night for the Flyers’ 4-1 loss to the Lightning<\/a>. The team, at 0-2-2, is on a four-game losing streak to open the season.<\/p>\n In the first three games, Bump went scoreless with four shots through 12:08 minutes per game. He was not the only player to have a quiet start. In fact, the Flyers have gotten just three goals from their forwards. As a team, the Flyers have been outscored 17-5 and outshot 158-77.<\/p>\n With the veteran Bunting now in the picture and the return of Denver Barkey from a lower-body injury, Bump became the odd man out. The Flyers will want him to play big minutes for the Phantoms.<\/p>\n Last season, Bump joined the Flyers after the March trade deadline and opened eyes<\/a>. He had a strong rookie game last month<\/a>, but didn’t stand out in training camp and the preseason.<\/p>\n “He has been OK this camp,” Rick Tocchet said a little over a week ago. “He’s a guy, I talked to him today, that has got to start to play inside, take pucks to the net. It’s going to get really hard to score goals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To make room for Michael Bunting, the Flyers loaned Alex Bump to AHL affiliate Lehigh Valley. The move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[9605,385,99],"class_list":["post-875243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-flyers-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875243","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=875243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}