{"id":87252,"date":"2020-10-03T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=87252"},"modified":"2020-10-03T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T14:50:24","slug":"brian-elliott-extends-philadelphia-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/10\/03\/brian-elliott-extends-philadelphia-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Elliott Extends With Philadelphia Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran goalie <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/elliobr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Elliott<\/a><\/strong> will suit up again in 2020-21. The former ninth-round selection has been in the league since 2007-08 but remains a productive contributor into his mid-30s. The terms of the deal are at one year for $1.5 million. The news came Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MOOOOOOOOSE. \u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6XpbvT9hlt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/6XpbvT9hlt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlyers\/status\/1312399553786712065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Brian Elliott Re-Signs with Flyers<\/h2>\n<p>Elliott was a serviceable backup for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flyers\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> in 2019-20. He posted his worst numbers in several years but a .899 save percentage and 2.87 goals-against-average are far from unplayable. His play turned around in the playoffs with a .911 save percentage and 2.15 goals-against in three appearances. Age is certainly a big factor in Elliott&#8217;s future production but he hasn&#8217;t fallen off the cliff just yet. There is still time for him to rebound and get back into the league-average territory.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/senators\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> drafted Elliott 291st overall in the 2003 Draft. He debuted for one game in 2007-08 but wasn&#8217;t a regular NHL contributor until 2008-09. Overall, Elliott has played for Ottawa, Philadephia, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flames\/\" target=\"_self\">Calgary Flames<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/avalanche\/\" target=\"_self\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> but his most productive seasons came with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/blues\/\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Blues<\/a>. Elliott received Vezina Trophy votes twice as a member of the Blues. He has a career .912 save percentage and 2.50 goals-against. Nobody will mistake him as the best goalie from his class but 13 seasons is outstanding for a position as volatile as a goalie.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>There is nothing preventing Elliott from having a few more seasons of productive hockey. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/andercr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Anderson<\/a><\/strong> remains active and respectable as he approaches his age-40 season. Fans also continue to watch veterans <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/halakja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jaroslav Halak<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fleurma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc-Andre Fleury<\/a><\/strong> play regularly on contending teams. Elliott might be approaching the portion of his career where he is no better than a veteran third goaltender but that is also no great barrier. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hutchmi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Hutchinson<\/a><\/strong> nearly boosted Colorado into the Western Conference Finals and his recent numbers are much worse than Elliott&#8217;s. Fans should expect a good year or two yet from the experienced backstop.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"FUnO98HCSbBUpUmrA-KGlQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1269768193\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'FUnO98HCSbBUpUmrA-KGlQ',sig:'eKn_QqQ7wG200pLu_7U8KLGO4dJSTyzQBl0vNXbXNh0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1269768193',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran goalie Brian Elliott will suit up again in 2020-21. The former ninth-round selection has been in the league since 2007-08 but remains a productive contributor into his mid-30s. The terms of the deal are at one year for $1.5 million. The news came Saturday morning. MOOOOOOOOSE. \u270d\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/6XpbvT9hlt \u2014 Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) October 3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3127,"featured_media":87523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[4547,34,4548],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-87252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-brian-elliott"],"modified_by":"Josh Erickson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87252","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\/3127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}