Andrew MacDonald Placed On Waivers
While retaining 30% of Gudas’s contract, this move not only challenges the cap room but in return, arguably strengthens the Flyers blue line.
This morning, however, the Flyers blue line became the obvious focus in the offseason by placing 32-year-old defenseman Andrew MacDonald on waivers for the purpose of buyout three months before starting his final year of a 6-year/$30 million dollar deal. This will result in a $5 million dollar cap hit, and most likely prevent anymore wild UFA signing rumors to float around in Flyers land.
“It was a difficult decision and it was solely cap related. I’ve had a couple of good conversations with Andrew — one at the end of the season and another one again today. This guy is a consummate professional. We asked a lot of Andrew and by that I mean he was a player that played the left side, played the right side, he’d be a healthy scratch and then we’d put him back in the lineup. We asked him to play with young players and mentor them and bring stability to our back end.
He’s just a quality person and a guy that played a very effective two-way game for our team, but we are in a cap world and we made that tough decision today to try reallocate some of those dollars to maximize our chance to stay in the hunt on some players over the next couple of weeks.” – Chuck Fletcher on Andrew MacDonald waivers
Projected Defensive lines are the following:
Provorov/Niskanen
Sanhiem/Gostisbehere
Hagg/Myers
As for Samuel Morin’s future with the club, he’ll be participating in the camp. Regardless if he makes the team out of camp, he’ll most likely be a strong candidate to fill in for injuries. Anything after that is up for question. However, these projected defensive lines are almost exciting enough to hang our hats on until October.
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