With the Flyers looking to make room to keep under the salary cap, they parted ways with the longest tenured player on the roster. Gagne was traded for defenseman Matt Walker and a 4th round pick. This trade sounds awful. Gagne was owed 5.25 million this season and the Flyers were 2.49 million over the salary cap, so a move was expected but nobody was sure who it was going to be. Now the Flyers are under the cap and still have some money to make a move or two. Replacing Simon Gagne will most likely be newly aquired forward Nik Zherdev. Zherdev may help with the offensive production but reports say that he is heavily lacking the skills to help out on defense. Looking up Gags career stats as a Flyer he was ranked in the top 10 for almost every offensive category including games, goals and points. I realize that this is the new NHL with teams having to make do and keep under the salary cap but it just feels like another Philadelphia star athlete gets shuttled out of here with nothing in return. So many awesome memories of Flyers playoff games when Gagne seemed to step it up and score a big goal. He will be missed. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/frequentflyers/Flyers_trade_Gagne_to_Tampa_Bay.html
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