Re: Why the Flyers are Better Off Because of Paul Holmgren
So people keep talking about how Richards/Carter had helped LA to win the Cup. Sure why not.
But what about their actual season to season production.
Mike Richards has three seasons with the Kings and 41 goals, 117 points to show for it. Wayne Simmonds has 72 goals, and 142 points during that same period.
Jeff Carter has 74 goals and 117 points in his three seasons post Flyers. Voracek has 63 goals and 157 points in that same period.
Carter (5.27) and Richards (5.75) take up a combined 11.02 million in cap space every year. Voracek and Simmonds take up a combined 8.225 million dollars in cap.
Plus the Flyers have Coturier and Schenn from the deals as well (and Cousins).
On the whole, it looks like the Flyers made out with the better end of the deals on paper. Did LA win the cup? Yep, but it doesn't prove that Philly would have had they kept Carter/Richards. Considering the better players on paper happen to reside on the Flyers team, I'm not sure you could say that the Flyers would have won the cup.
The bigger issue is that the team should have taken Dougie Hamilton with the Couturier pick. It was one of the dumber decisions Holmgren made over the years.
14T BiWeekly H2H. 4 C/RW/LW, 6 D, 2 G
Cats:G(3), A(1.5), PIM(0.2), PPP(1), SOG(0.2), GWG(1), SHP(2), Hits(0.3), BkS(0.4). W(2), SO(2), OTL(0.5), SV(0.2), GA(-1), L(-1). 9 Keepers in Bold. 12 player Farm team (skaters under 110, goalies under 80 gp) in italics
LW - Gaudreau, Forsberg, Parise, Hyman (C)
C - Backstrom, Getzlaf, N Foligno (LW/RW), Kotkaniemi, Carter (LW/RW)
RW - Tarasenko, Rantanen, Arvidsson, Atkinson, Gourde (C/LW), Mikheyev (RW)
D - Dahlin, Theodore, Ellis, Klingberg, Fox, Andersson
G - Murray, Grubauer
Prospects -Rossi, Turcotte, Kravstov, Tippett, Bouchard, Lehtonen, K Miller, Addison, DeSmith, Kahkonen, Ingram, Gustavsson