Boy, have we come a long way since the night of the Claude Giroux trade.
Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported this Friday morning that the Flyers and winger Owen Tippett are on the verge of agreeing on an eight-year contract extension. As of this writing, the exact amount of the deal is unknown, but Friedman says the annual value is expected to be between $6-6.5 million, making the total of the deal somewhere in the $48-52 million range. Per The Fourth Period’s Anthony DiMarco, the exact average annual value of the deal is $6.2 million, making it a $49.