{"id":92422,"date":"2020-12-08T18:09:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=92422"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:23:50","slug":"flyers-re-sign-philippe-myers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/12\/08\/flyers-re-sign-philippe-myers\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers Re-sign Philippe Myers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/flyers\/\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> have re-signed restricted free agent defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/myersph01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philippe Myers<\/a> to a three-year contract worth $2.25 million per season. This deal will carry him through the 2022-23 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DONE DEAL: Philly Myers will be back in the \ud83d\udfe0 &amp; \u26ab\ufe0f! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1kBgjqD1ig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/1kBgjqD1ig<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHLFlyers\/status\/1336432889513308160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 8, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Philadelphia Flyers re-signs Philippe Myers<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myers was signed by the Flyers as an undrafted free agent in 2015, after a strong performance during training camp. The 23-year-old defenceman played for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, the Flyers\u2019 AHL associated team. He made his NHL debut during the 2018-19 season on February 17, 2019, against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/redwings\/\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During his two-year NHL career, he has put up five goals and 13 assists for 18 points in 71 career games. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last season, he scored five goals and 12 assists for 17 points. He also added 30 penalty minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What This Means for the Future<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myers shows promise for Philadelphia, as his growth during the past season was incredible. Even though he started the 2019-20 season in the AHL, the defenceman proved himself to be NHL-worthy, despite some ups-and-downs. Myers was scratched from the Flyers\u2019 2019-20 roster a few times before settling in. As a young defenceman, he has been tested by the coaching staff. He was paired with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sanhetr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travis Sanheim<\/a> &#8211; with whom he had played before in the Phantoms &#8211; and with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gostish01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shayne Gostisbehere<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myers made mistakes and was roughly criticized by the media. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/vigneal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alain Vigneault<\/a>, Philadelphia\u2019s head coach, seemed to believe in his potential. By the time January came, the 23-year-old defenceman had entered the top-four blueliners for Philadelphia. Vigneault\u2019s top pair was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/provoiv01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ivan Provorov<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/niskama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Niskanen<\/a> but he had a strong second pairing with Sanheim and Myers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has some interesting qualities that will come in hand for the Flyers next season. First, the defenceman is not afraid to carry the puck through the neutral zone. His ability to create controlled zone entries and exits were ranked right behind Provorov and Niskanen. At last, Myers ranked second among Flyers defencemen in creating scoring chances in regulation time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Niskanen\u2019s retirement in October, Philadelphia will need a good right-handed defenceman to play with Provorov and Myers might be their best choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"uTfl0ZYuQb9Vkj88wlkIHQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1195286922\" 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:'uTfl0ZYuQb9Vkj88wlkIHQ',sig:'3A9mF8YfgtdUM6zKLbyVRKUSo7xm6IoUgiS24eref1Q=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1195286922',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Flyers have re-signed restricted free agent defenceman Philippe Myers to a three-year contract worth $2.25 million per season. This deal will carry him through the 2022-23 season. DONE DEAL: Philly Myers will be back in the \ud83d\udfe0 &amp; \u26ab\ufe0f! https:\/\/t.co\/1kBgjqD1ig &mdash; Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) December 8, 2020 Philadelphia Flyers re-signs Philippe Myers Myers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3683,"featured_media":92471,"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":[4547,34,4548,16],"tags":[37,5738,2569,38,662,955,5338,126,489],"class_list":["post-92422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","category-flyers","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-news","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news","tag-nhl-postseason","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philippe-myers"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92422","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\/3683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}