Le 22 juin 2012, les Flyers ont échangé Sergei Bobrovsky aux Blue Jackets en retour, les Flyers ont obtenu des choix de 4e et 2e ronde en 2012 et un choix de 4e ronde en 2013. Le 4e choix de 2013 qui est devenu Justin Auger a été échangé aux Kings le 26 février 2013 pour Simon Gagné, Auger qui a connu des hauts et des bas dans la AHL et la ECHL n’a jamais joué dans la LNH plus tard, prenant sa retraite en 2020. Le 4e choix de 2012 est devenu Taylor Leier qui a joué dans 55 matchs de la LNH marquant 2 buts et 7 points, tous avec les Flyers et qui est actuellement en Suède. Le 4e choix de 2012 a été utilisé pour sélectionner Anthony Stolarz qui était dans l’organisation des Flyers de 2012 à 2019 et a ensuite été échangé pour Cam Talbot qui est parti via le marché des joueurs autonomes aux Flames et est maintenant membre des Red Wings de Détroit. puis il a quitté les Oilers pour les Ducks et est devenu un remplaçant/troisième joueur décent pour eux jusqu’à son départ en 2023 pour remplacer Bobrovsky pour remporter la Coupe Stanley 2024, puis cet été, il a signé avec les Maple Leafs de Toronto pour être probablement le remplaçant de Joseph Woll. En 109 matchs dans la LNH, il a 43 victoires, 31 défaites, 0,915 SV% et une moyenne de buts alloués de 2,19.
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Looking at the timeline, this was peak Giroux era. Not that they ever actually built a solid team top to bottom in that time frame to begin with, but damn a strong goalie would have went a long way. Outside of a season or two of Steve mason, their goaltending was not good.
The only thing worse was signing goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov to a nine-year deal worth 51 million in June 2011 and then buying the contract out in June 2013. woof.
I think signing Bob would’ve turned out much better for Flyers.
It’s bad because he eventually became good, but realistically it made some sense at the time.
Philly has the goalie curse so it probably wouldn’t matter.
Not as bad as signing Bryz. As a Ducks fan, I love my humongous beeg Space Cadet, and I ask myself why I heff to be mad at things all the time. But his game absolutely fell off a cliff. Saved us in our Cup year when J-S Giguere’s wife and newborn were in medical danger, kept us in long enough for them to recover and J-S to get his head back in the game. But something went wrong in his head and he lost his game.
That said, there’s a place for him in commentary somewhere purely for the entertainment value. He’s such a super chill dude and funny as hell.
Columbus eventually traded us Tortorella in return, so I’d say the general trade was pretty bad.
It’s even worse. The Flyers traded Bobrovsky because they signed Ilya Bryzgalov.
They weren’t patient with him, didn’t give him a chance to really develop. He had a rough game or two and was benched for the ever present goalie rotation in the playoffs which led to losing the cup on a soft goal. With the goaltending costing them the cup and the emergence of Giroux they made a choice to make a big goalie move and not be in this situation again (hahaha worked out great). I guess they moved Bob hoping their investment in Bryz would pay off, even though it seemed clear that wasn’t going to be the case. Bob got a real shot on Columbus and ran with it. If the Flyers were just a little more patient, they could have had that long term #1 they haven’t seen in decades.
We’re cursed with goalies. They either come and have the worst stretch of their careers, get hurt (Jeff Hackett vertigo), or we draft them and they never quite live up to the potential they had. Until they get traded away. Or they rape someone and hockey Canada covers it up.
The worst.
Hindsight is 20/20. But I still have nightmares about it, more so since he won a ring.