In this bonus “shootout” episode, Bill and Kelly of the PHLY Flyers Podcast answer a few more fan questions they received on X for Mailbag Friday.
What would it actually take to offer sheet Connor Bedard? Is Sean Couturier’s contract creating a logjam for the Flyers’ rebuild? What will Noah Cates contract look like after his breakout season?
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We are talking about offer sheeting bedard?! Lol
Trade Konecny
Sadly, Coots' contract is like VLC's. It's an albatross. He will be a grossly overpaid 3-4 C with declining performance. Maybe he gets dumped in a trade or bought out in a few years. Maybe.
Naah. Cout's contract is basically the expected cap increase over the course of its duration, so by the last season it's kinda zero.
And recent prognostication about offer sheets aside … I think next offseason is the first real window for the Flyers to start doing moves like that. Not this year. Sure, if the opportunity presents – but Bedard isn't until next year (this offseason its Rossi, McLeod, etc).
Couturier's contract became a logjam the day it was signed. So yes.
Any chance Torts isn't the coach next season? They need to move on, whether moving him upstairs or cutting ties.
The answer is yes. And I will say that Travis Konecny's contract is as well.
At the time it was signed, Couturier’s contract was a good contract, because 7.75 AAV for a guy averaging nearly a point per game for 4 seasons straight while playing 95% of regular season games would be a steal. Unfortunately injuries and lack of surrounding talent pretty much made his contract the albatross of all albatrosses. If he could get back to upper 50’s low 60’s in point production with the expected cap increase his cap hit would be fair market for 2C production. He’d be tradable with that production. If he continues to put up high 30’s low 40’s he’s an extremely overpaid 3C and to trade him we’d probably have to eat about a third of that AAV and likely have to throw in a draft pick.
Remember that this goes both way. If this is the new trend with GMs, expect Michkov to receive an offer sheet as well.
Third line in 2025-26
Cates-Couturier- Lycksell
Building the team step by step
i'd like to see if anything would change with Torts gone. Could be an energy block.
Of course it is. It’s been a disaster from day one. TK’s contract is a flaming pile of garbage too
Couturier's contract isn't keeping up from resigning any of our own players, so just keep the contract and suck it up.
Imo Coots contract + cap increase = far more easily movable
Making an offer the other team is forced to match is the game
Coots contract? Log jam?
Not if he waives his no trade clause (maybe?).
Any offer sheet, has to be Smart. Do whatever but it's gotta work for short, MEDIUM, long term.
Why is bedard the dream? He hasn’t been dominant he may not even be a center. The dream is Mcdavid
Coots is a has been. He is actively hurting the team
Yeah, Bedard can't wait to play for Torts. Get a haircut.
At his signing Couts was worth every penny of it. Because of his injuries & diminishing skills he's become a liability. The organization is in a pickle because they have nobody else to play that position. No 1st line center, no 2nd line center, no 3rd line center, but about a half-dozen 4th line centers.
He has a terrible contract. We should put him through waivers and hope a team is stupid
This is a complete joke, right? Literally the day the Public found out about this contract. The entire talk was about how bad it’s going to end.
Couts has been a great Flyer but the injuries have derailed his Selke calibre career.
It was a terrible contract the day he signed it and it’s still a terrible contract
Coots is a gamer but he is spent. He can't skate, can't hit, and can't score. Logjam, YES.
Coots contract is not really relevant. Flyers have no Cs so he cant be blocking anyone. One day Luchenko will be up but theres plenty of room for him. Eventually Coots will be our Jordan Stall on the 3rd. For a rebuild it doesnt really matter where he plays