After the Seattle Kraken put a thorn in the side of Chuck Fletcher’s plan to relieve some salary cap pressure, the Flyers decided to take matters into their own hands on Thursday. The Philadelphia Flyers have traded Shayne Gostisbehere & 2022 second & seventh-round picks in exchange for $4.5M in cap relief.
The move isn’t surprising. Gostisbehere carried a $4.5M cap-hit and it’s one that a team who previously had around $9M in cap space really needed. They tried to expose all of their contractual heavy-hitters to the Seattle Kraken, but they decided to select Carson Twarynski instead, leaving the Flyers wondering what to do next.