Flyers sign F Owen Tippett to a 8-year extension

OWEN TIPPETT IS HERE TO STAY.

Breaking news just a couple of minutes ago from Anthony Di Marco on X. An 8-year deal worth $6.2 million dollars a year.

*Update*

Deal includes a 10-team Limited NTC from years 3-to-6 of the deal.

Per the hardworking @ADiMarco25, the Tippett deal is a 8-year deal worth $6.2 million dollars a year.

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Tippett was placed on injury reserved on Tuesday. He currently has 18G-12A-30P in 46 games this season.

8 years, $6.2 million for a 24-year old goal scorer that has showed nothing but improvement since being traded from the Panthers in the Giroux deal is a steal. Especially when you realize the cap is going up soon.

Last year, in only 77 games, Tippett had 27G-22A-49P. He is on pace for 31G-21A-52P this year, barring he returns soon.

This is Danny Briere’s first big contract extension (York, Frost and Cates were small ones) so I was pretty interested to see where he landed with a guy like Tippett.

24 years old. Just scored 27 last season. You know Tippett could’ve asked for more $$ but obviously was willing to give a lower AAV if the Flyers extended stability with the term.

There’s got to be a mix of paying him for what he’s done already (27 goals last year on a bad team, on pace for 31 this year) and paying him for what you think he will become.

Let’s look at some other wingers in the league that make between $6-6.5 million:

– Anthony Cirelli (TBL): $6.25M

– Alex Killorn (ANA): $6.25M

– Brad Marchand (BOS): $6.1M

Take the Marchand number with a grain of salt because he signed the contract in 2016. That would be a much larger # if he was a UFA heading into his last year of his deal.

Same goes with a lot of players that make that amount of money right now but it’s still useful to go and look at the group Tippett now finds himself in.

My initial reaction to this was “Were Briere quick to get this done after seeing the team play without Owen for a couple of games?”

Maybe, but probably not. I hope a handful of games wouldn’t sway a GM to lock a guy up for 8 years but it’s definitely telling when they don’t have Tippett on the ice. He stretches defenses out so well with his speed and of course they miss the goal scoring too.

Deals like this are always fun to knit-pick at first glance but in all reality we won’t know if this was a good first long-term deal from Briere for a couple of years.

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