Fresh off another disappointing playoff exit, the Flyers decide to downplay skill in favour of playing hard against teams

The Philadelphia Flyers have hired a new General Manager just weeks before the trade deadline. Brian Sawchuk will take over the reigns. He has already made an immediate impact on the team. We discuss these changes below....

Philly has completed one of their biggest trade in team history by acquiring Jeff Carter and Thomas Greiss. In return, we gave away fan favorite Tomas Plekanec, Simeon Varlamov, due for a number one goaltending career, and John Erskine, an agressive defensive defenceman, plus a 2nd round pick.

Could it be the flyers year since our first season in the league???

Over the course of 30 days, yours truly is going to take a look at each team in the league, examine their off-season moves, assess the biggest issue facing the team, highlight a player or two to watch for, and finally give an outlook on the season.

Next up, the Philadelphia Flyers.

GM tetreault29 has been looking different ways to enhance his team performance and came to a trade agreement with GM Matsson early in the morning when Philly traded away Chris Kunitz LW for veteran Eddie Belfour. Philly is somehow acquiring an experienced goaltender that could do the job replacing emery and doing a better job than a backup with no XP such as Krahn.

The Philadelphia Flyers traded their best offensive defenceman to the Coyotes for younger and stronger Cameron Barker.

Philadelphia Flyers 2008 -2009

SOURAY STAYS WITH FLYERS

After losing the division title to the Stanley Cup Winning New York Islanders, GM tetreault29 came to the conclusion that eventually a major shake up was needed in order to remain competitive and that trading was part of the solution. GM tetreault29 and Coach Brent Sutter tells the press how necessary it was, and still is, to bring the Philadelphia Flyers to a higher level of play.