BLOCKBUSTER Flyers trade on a Monday evening.

Chuck Fletcher continues to WHEEL and DEAL, this time sending Ryan Hartman to Dallas:

BREAKING: We’ve acquired Tyler Pitlick from Dallas in exchange for Ryan Hartman.

Details: https://t.co/7k8PLdi3GI pic.twitter.com/x86tNRIl4c

— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) June 24, 2019

Hartman scored two goals and added four assists in 19 games for the Flyers. He came over in the Wayne Simmonds trade last year.

Pitlick is 27 years old, a center who scored 22 goals in his last two seasons with the Dallas Stars. He has one year remaining on his contract at $1 million. Hartman was a RFA, so I guess this was about getting some value back for him. Could have asked for too much money or didn’t want to re-sign here. Shrug.

Thoughts on the move?

I personally believe the Stanley Cup is coming home to Philadelphia.

If Carson Briere is half as good as his dad, I say we sign him up right away. Get him in here.

Via the Flyers:

The Philadelphia Flyers will open their 2019 Development Camp on Tuesday, June 25 at Virtua Center Flyers Skate Zone in Voorhees. Forty-one prospects are scheduled to attend the five-day camp, including six of the club’s seven selections in last weekend’s 2019 NHL Entry Draft and a total of five first-round picks from the last four drafts.

It’ll be our first look at draft picks Cam York, Bobby Brink, Ronald Attard, Mason Millman, Bryce Brodzynski, and Roddy Ross. Sixth rounder Egor Serdyuk will not be in camp.

Briere is 19 years old, a 5’9″, 181 pound right handed center/right winger. He scored 44 goals and added 45 assists this past year playing for the NAHL’s Johnstown Tomahawks and will be an Arizona State Sun Devil for the 2020-2021 season.

His youth stats, courtesy of Elite Prospects, after the jump:

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Chuck Fletcher is wheeling and dealing, though I’m not sure if his moves are any good. Radko Gudas for Matt Niskanen? Seven million dollars a year for seven years of Kevin Hayes?

Anthony and Russ discussed all of that on this morning’s Snow the Goalie podcast.

Here’s some of the national reaction to what the Flyers are doing:

In which Kevin Hayes, a 27 year old who has broken 20 goals once and 50 points once, now has the 18th highest AAV for a center in the NHL.

Unrestricted Free Agency. Catch the FEVER, BABY! https://t.co/o6XTxRlHTB

— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) June 19, 2019

A handful of the guys in the same range as Hayes:

• Ryan O’Reilly – $7,500,000 AAV
• Evgeny Kuznetsov – $7,800,00 AAV
• Ryan Kesler – $6,875,000 AAV
• Patrice Bergeron – $6,875,000 AAV

All four of those dudes have posted multiple 50-point seasons. Bergeron is 33 and Kesler is 34, but O’Reilly is 28 and Kuznetsov is 27, so they’re more comparable in age to Hayes.

More after the jump:

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