{"id":471458,"date":"2025-07-07T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=471458"},"modified":"2025-07-07T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T12:57:33","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-re-sign-rfa-defenceman-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/07\/07\/philadelphia-flyers-re-sign-rfa-defenceman-for-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers Re-Sign RFA Defenceman for Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to another edition of NHL signing news here at <em>Last Word on Hockey <\/em>from the busy summer season. We bring you the latest deals as players secure their futures. Today\u2019s focus is on the Philadelphia Flyers re-signing defenceman restricted free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/y\/yorkca01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-29_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cameron York<\/a> to solidify blueline depth for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hearing Cam York extension in Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>5 x $5.15M<\/p>\n<p>Good piece of business done<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1942202977898352653?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"158\" data-end=\"208\">Philadelphia Flyers Re-sign Cameron York<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"158\" data-end=\"208\"><strong data-start=\"242\" data-end=\"255\">Contract:<\/strong> Five Years<br data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"302\" \/><strong data-start=\"302\" data-end=\"310\">AAV:<\/strong> $5.15 million<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"383\" data-end=\"420\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/27\/flyers-options-2025-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> are bringing back left-shot defenceman Cameron York, who had been a restricted free agent. Well, he is no longer. According to <a  href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/player\/cameron-york\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Puckpedia<\/a>, in that he didn&#8217;t currently have a deal, his new contract won&#8217;t expire until the summer of 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"536\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">York, 24, played 66 games for Philadelphia in 2024\u201325, registering four goals and 13 assists for 17 points, and 26 penalty minutes. <\/span><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">He remained a steady presence in the Flyers\u2019 top-four rotation, logging average ice time close to 20 minutes per game, and contributed both at even strength and on the penalty kill.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"543\" data-end=\"578\">Cameron York&#8217;s Background &amp; Development<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"580\" data-end=\"694\"><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">Drafted 14th overall in 2019 by Philadelphia, York has steadily carved out a valuable role through a strong two-way game. The Southern California native began his career at the University of Michigan, where he led Big Ten defencemen in scoring (20 points in 2020\u201321) and earned awards for his defensive performance.<\/span> Moreover, h<span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">e made his NHL debut in 2021\u201322, and incrementally increased his point production each year, becoming a key fixture on the Flyers&#8217; backend. <\/span><span class=\"relative -mx-px my-[-0.2rem] rounded px-px py-[0.2rem] transition-colors duration-100 ease-in-out\">Physically, York stands 5\u203211\u2033 and weighs 194\u202flb, bringing mobility, puck-transition skill, and reliability in his own end.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"783\" data-end=\"815\">What This Means for the Team<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"817\" data-end=\"1119\">Retaining York ensures Philadelphia\u2019s defensive core maintains consistency and familiarity heading into next season. His blend of youth and two-way acumen complements veteran partners, while his steady progression makes him a candidate for more prominent roles in the power play or top-four pairings. Furthermore, York is the kind of defenceman that a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/27\/flyers-options-2025-draft\/\" target=\"_self\">rebuilding team<\/a> like the Flyers could build around and consider their core. This re-signing marks another step in the Flyers\u2019 ongoing rebuild, signaling confidence in York\u2019s role as a foundational defenceman.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1349\">Main Photo Credit:\u00a0Eric Hartline-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to another edition of NHL signing news here at Last Word on Hockey from the busy summer season. We bring you the latest deals as players secure their futures. Today\u2019s focus is on the Philadelphia Flyers re-signing defenceman restricted free agent Cameron York to solidify blueline depth for the upcoming season. Hearing Cam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5399,"featured_media":472184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4547,34,4548],"tags":[3800,5754,5996],"class_list":["post-471458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flyers","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-cam-york","tag-nhl-signing","tag-philadelphia-flyers-news"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471458"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472188,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471458\/revisions\/472188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}