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Flyers Sign Egor Zamula to 2-Year Contract After Impressive Season

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The Philadelphia Flyers announced on Sunday morning that the club had re-signed blossoming defenseman Egor Zamula to a two-year, $3.4 million contract ($1.7 million AAV) after an impressive first full season in the NHL.

The young defenseman will make $1 million in salary this season with a $500,000 signing bonus, and $1.4 million in salary with a $500,000 salary bonus next season. Zamula will be a restricted free agent with arbitration rights upon expiry of this new contract.

Zamula, 24, had played parts of three seasons in the NHL before sticking with the Flyers for the full season this past year. In 66 games, the 6-foot-3 Russian blueliner produced five goals, 16 assists, and 21 points, and his plus-minus rating of plus-3 made him one of three Flyers players with a positive plus-minus rating.

Additionally, Zamula’s 21 points ranked third amongst Flyers defensemen, trailing only Travis Sanheim and Cam York (Note: Sean Walker was traded midseason).

Flyers General Manager Danny Briere was impressed with the growth Zamula showed throughout the course of the season, telling Philly Hockey Now in an exclusive interview in June that Zamula is “. . . a really interesting prospect, and he got better as the season went on. He brings something different that we don’t have a lot of. First of all, he’s got length. He’s got a really good stick. He can make plays, sometimes you’re hemmed in your own zone, he makes a breakout pass across the ice for your guy to go down and get down the ice.”

Per Moneypuck, among all NHL defensemen who played at least 1,000 minutes this season, Zamula ranked 37th in the NHL in on-ice expected goals percentage at 52.5%. This placed Zamula near the likes of Victor Hedman (36th), Charlie McAvoy (32nd), Cale Makar (30th), and Rasmus Dahlin (28th) and ahead of the likes of Jaccob Slavin (40th), Gustav Forsling (41st), Jake Sanderson (42nd), and Noah Dobson (44th).

After signing Zamula, the Flyers are now over the NHL salary cap by $829,763, per PuckPedia, including the recent Cam Atkinson buyout and the partial cap relief of having Cal Petersen buried in the AHL. This also includes the salary of defenseman Ryan Ellis, a likely LTIR candidate during the 2024-25 season.

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Not Offsides

I like how the Flyers are creatively getting around the salary cap by tacking on big signing bonuses. Barring an unexpected trade (Farabee? Frost?), it looks like the team is set for next season, without the desired #1 center acquired. Let’s see:

Foerster – Couturier – Konecny
Tippett – Frost – Michkov
Farabee – Laughton – Brink
Cates – Poehling – Hathaway
Deslauriers

Sanheim – York
Seeler – Drysdale
Zamula – Ginning/Attard/Ristolainen/Johnson

They are pinning any hopes for improvement on the continued development of the young nucleus. I would put Frost with Michkov. Here’s Frost’s chance to bring it consistently. If he’s not showing it, they can deal him before free agency. If TK sticks to his $10 million ask, he would have to go, too.

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Bill M

Just good enough for 14th pick in round #1 smh

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BIGE88

They aren’t going to let us liquidate like you want . We are a big market . Rangers and Boston both have cups last 30 years. We can still win a cup . We are in same boat as Boston and rangers . No excuses . I’m as pissed off as anyone the last 50 years . Only 40 of which I remember . I have never seen a. Cup

You want to do it like Colorado , Pittsburgh and New Jersey I understand your frustration . I’m frustrated to but we can still do it .

We need a big time center and break in next 2 years . We Also need a Brady tkachuk or tom Wilson on top line wing . A power guy .

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BigE88

Agree . Problem is we still need a Chris Kreider /tkachuk / Tom Wilson / Alex killorn/ landeskog for our top line and power play . We can’t pay Konecny 10 million

I like ginning . He just looks green. I think he needs work . If Eric Johnson was 4 years younger I would take him for next 4 years . Tortorella loves risto . I don’t think attard is big and physical enough . Reach matters . Seeler was awesome but his upside is capped . I still need a big time defender if no risto . The defensive d men take while . I’m also interested in grans in ahl.

I think out of Konecny/ farabee and brink . Only 1 survives

I don’t care about this season . Jamie drysdale was traded for to be the #1 . We didn’t trade Gauthier for a 2nd pair d man

Drysdale is legit offensively . We just need him to be able to be Adam fox defensively

Frost is an enigma I agree . Lots of his big games are against the Arizona’s

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Romus

“After signing Zamula, the Flyers now have only $120,238 remaining in available cap space, per PuckPedia”…move on from Risto and his %5.5M AAV…..Leafs may be a buyer…..will not get much in return because of his AAV, maybe one 2nd round pick. And give Attard an opportunity.

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Danny Deuber

Zamula will be fine if he puts on 20 or 25 pounds. It helped Sanhiem when he did that. If we would have taken Helenius we would have had that center slot covered.

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