Flyers

Holy Sh*t, Ilya Bryzgalov Was at the Flyers Game Last Night

By Kyle Scott

Published: Oct 21st, 2016 · 10:34 AM EDT

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Ilya Bryzgalov, former Flyer, former Duck, space cadet, was at the Flyers game last night, in the stands, in solid but relatively mediocre seats.

Few things:

1. He was with his kid and not trying to be even slightly discreet– the kid had their surname on the back of his shirt.
2. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a recent former player go to a game and just sit in the stands like this. Either you’re in good enough standing with the organization to get free tickets (and usually sit in a suite or hang out in the locker room) or you’re not and avoid the building like the plague. Sometimes you may get the FU appearance by a former player in highly visible seats. But Bryz, it seems, just paid for tickets… and didn’t even spring for rinkside seats. No self-respecting oligarch would even consider those proletariat seats, Bryz. Step it up.
3. The Flyers paid Bryz $23 million to go away – $1.64 million per year for 14 years – and not only was it not enough, but he actually paid some of it back to buy tickets to the game. Amazing.
4. How do I just find out about this humongous news morning? There are 20k people there, and a handful of people I know working at the building, and no one bothers to inform me that Ilya Bryzgalov is trolling around the Wells Fargo Center like it’s nothing? There is maybe one person in the Philly area that could profit off Bryz being at the game, and that’s me. No one tells me. I’m genuinely mad about this.

I’m disappointed in all of you.