Flyers sign Braydon Coburn to two-year, $6.4 million deal
by Travis Hughes on Jul 1, 2010 12:31 PM EDT
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Braydon Coburn is still a Philadelphia Flyer. According to various reports, he's signed a two-year, $6.4 million deal with the team. With a cap hit of $3.2 million, however, it seems like a bit of a hefty payment for him.
The Flyers now have about $2.6 million in cap space to sign Darroll Powe, Dan Carcillo, probably a goalie and still have breathing room in case of injury issues during the season. It's hard to imagine that something else is cooking, because that's just not enough money for what the Flyers need to do.
With Andrej Meszaros and Coburn on defense, the Flyers have a very expensive blueline. At the same time, they have a very good blueline. That's exciting.
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Well, there goes my career as a prognosticator….
Uh, welcome (again), Braydon Coburn! :)
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by Orange and Black Forever on Jul 1, 2010 12:35 PM EDT reply actions
With qualifying offers to both Carcillo and Powe, you can fit under the cap.
But the understatement of the month, thanks to Travis -
“With a cap hit of $3.2 million, however, it seems like a bit of a hefty payment for him.”
i guess in the end, they reall like coburn and think he can be worth it.
by bleedorangewhiteblack on Jul 1, 2010 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions
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by Travis Hughes on Jul 1, 2010 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions
That’s considerably more than double his previous salary … and I don’t see him as worth that much. I was hoping for more like $2.6 million (double). And with adding Meszaros at $4million, the defense (and quite possibly the team) is pretty much set unless something strange happens.
Here’s to strange …
Somehow, I think there’s another deal out there yet to be made. I just have a suspicion that the team’s going to shed some salary along the line.
Briere or Hartnell? I know I am going to get cr@p for mentioning Briere but I believe Homer when he says Carter isn’t going anywhere so I think it would be one of those two that go somewhere.
I think Hartnell is going to be the one to go, then Briere next year (only way to sign Carter). I still feel there is no chance we are going to be able to resign Carter next year, thats why I want him out now rather then mid-season.
So all we need now is a Goalie (ha.) and a winger (better get one)
I think Carter is a RFA Homer is going to tender him at the highest he can so I doubt he goes elsewhere unless teams want to give us a bunch of draft picks.
Just a random thought — maybe Carle gets swapped? Meszaros could conceivably be a top-4 guy and Carle might get some interest from a team that loses out on Hamhuis/Martin/Volchenkov. I know I’m just wildly speculating (which makes me no different than some professional hockey analysts in that regard) but the numbers here just don’t seem to add up.
by memphisbrando on Jul 1, 2010 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Carle’s worth must be high, I really wish for him to stay a Flyer as long as we can keep him. We could trade Kimmo, hes getting there in age and would provide some nice relief to easily get a goalie and a forward like Colby.
by Ant on Jul 1, 2010 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions
The city of Philadelphia and all our GM’s (except anyone from the Eagles really), love to over compensate for everything. It’s why they get hired, most would consider it a character flow, we see it as a must!
by Ant on Jul 1, 2010 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I was really excited about what would happen today. Now … not so much. We overpaid for Coburn and I am not quite sure about Meszaros, given who else we could have gone after, especially without giving up a pick. I still think of the bonehead move of giving up a 1rst round pick for Eminger! When will we learn.
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Bob Mckenzie reporting that we also have signed Sean O’ Donnell
I like it
Who’s defense is better than ours in the NHL? How bout next year too?
Leighton is not who I want in goal, but I think Mesz can regain his Ottawa form here in Philly. He was still pretty darn good on a few terrible TB teams, he’s young, and I think he’ll be taught effectively by Pronger & Timonen. Now we won’t have to play them 30 min a night.
1-5, I don’t see any team stacking up with us defensively.
My man, it was a bit expensive, but I called 3 million before these shenanigans, and u got 3.2. Love it
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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Jul 1, 2010 2:17 PM EDT reply actions
As much as I like Coburn, this is definitely an overpayment. I wonder why it jumped up so high? I don’t know if Homer made the lowest qualifying offer he could or what, but the number honestly baffles me. I know he could have signed him for cheaper, or if somebody else signed him we would have gotten a 1st and a 3rd rounder which we need since we never have any picks.
I read that Mason got signed for 2 years and 3.7M. I think for a little bit more (500K at the most) we could have kept Coburn and signed Mason, and given us everything we need.
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We probably could’ve held on for longer and forced Coburn to sign for less, perhaps telling him that Mez is our no. 4 now. However I think he’s hugely underrated on these boards. The guy still has potential to be a no. 1 when he reaches the 29-35 age region. I wouldn’t want to lose him.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Jul 1, 2010 7:49 PM EDT reply actions
It’s worth mentioning that Coburn is 25 and has 5 NHL seasons, so he could have requested salary arbitration if we didn’t settle it soon. He wasn’t in the “no leverage” position like RFA’s who are coming out of entry level contracts, because those guys usually don’t meet the eligibility requirements for arbitration
by DragonGirl0583 on Jul 1, 2010 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions
And also
I’m not sure but doesn’t two years mean that he’ll be an RFA after the two? As opposed to being a UFA if he got a longer term deal?
by PursuitOfLappyness on Jul 1, 2010 8:04 PM EDT reply actions
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