Remember when the Philadelphia Flyers signed Shea Weber to a 14-year, $110 million offer sheet before the Nashville Predators matched it? That was fun, wasn’t it?
Not entirely, because it did signal a time the Flyers were desperate to improve their defense. And goaltending, for that matter; the year before, they signed Ilya Bryzgalov to a nine-year, $51 million deal.
Before then, Bryz was coming off of a season that saw him play 68 games and post a .921 save percentage: not bad at all. He was then bought out after just two years of his contract, having only played 99 games for the Flyers, and posting a .