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Did the Flyers paint themselves into a corner with the Christian Dvorak contract?

General manager Danny Briere and the Flyers happily gave Christian Dvorak a five-year contract extension, but there are some potential headaches to be reckoned with later.

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The ink wasn’t even dry on the shiny new five-year contract that the Flyers gave to center Christian Dvorak before the logic of said contract came into question. This is par for the course nearly every time someone signs for big money anywhere, but Dvorak’s deal seems a bit peculiar for a number of reasons.