The dust has settled from the Travis Konecny extension that was announced last week. The contract carries an $8.75-million AAV across eight years, plus a full No-Move Clause in the first six years and a Modified No-Trade Clause in the final two. It’s a big contract — one of the largest ever signed by the Flyers and the largest in the salary cap era — and should see Konecny finish his career in Philadelphia.
Reactions to that contract have been…mixed, to put it nicely. Online, it’s been apocalyptic: the Flyers have given up on the rebuild, they’ve thrown away cap space to a player who’s too old, and general manager Danny Briere clearly has no idea what he’s doing.