The Flyers are officially sellers. Mark Streit, the team’s assistant captain on a contract that expires in June, has been traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Forward Valtteri Filppula is coming back to Philadelphia. The Flyers also get Tampa’s fourth round pick in 2017 and a conditional seventh round pick in this draft. The Flyers have made the deal official.
Filppula has one year left on his deal at $5 million against the cap, and Tampa has been trying to move him for other cap reasons.
The Flyers have certainly made their fair share of trades with Steve Yzerman’s Lightning over the years, and here’s another one to add to the list.