Philadelphia Flyers Sign Morgan Frost to Two Year Deal

The Philadelphia Flyers, along with the rest of the NHL, will be returning to the ice in a few short weeks for training camp. And after months of waiting, they have finally signed their final remaining free agent. Morgan Frost has been signed to a two-year deal that will see him make 2.1M per year.

It took a long time to get to this point for the two sides. There had been rumors that both were still far apart from making a deal happen and that it could drag close to training camp. With only a two-year deal coming for Frost, it’s possible the holdup could’ve been about the length more than the term of the contract. Philadelphia may have been more interested in a longer term deal in order to buy some of Frost’s free agent year. It’s also possible that they aren’t completely sold on his abilities at this point. While in Frost’s case, he could be willing to bet on himself in order to create an even bigger payday down the line.

While we’ll never know exactly what went down in negotiations, a deal has been signed and both sides can move on and look toward the season. Frost does still have a little more to prove after finishing the season on a high note. For him, it’s going to be about showing that his production toward the end of the year wasn’t a fluke. John Tortorella, at times, wasn’t sold on Frost and he made that clear more often than not. But there were also moments where it was clear that given more opportunities to succeed, Frost could rise to the challenge. Once the calendar year turned, Frost was one of the best players on the team. He posted 12 goals and 32 points in the Flyers final 45 games. That was after seven goals and 14 points in the first 37 games.

"“Probably the big thing for me was once I started to feel a little more confidence, started to get some points, it was more going into games almost expecting to get a point rather than just go out there and play well,” Frost said about his play at the end of the season. “Just kept building confidence in the second half and just that kind of production. Aside from production, I felt that I played a much stronger overall game.”"

With the Flyers not contending for at least the next two to three years, there is going to be plenty of opportunity for players to step up and prove their worth. It seemed as if Frost’s last contract was looked at as a “prove it” type deal. But now, there cannot be anything but certainty that this is the moment for Frost to prove once and for all that he belongs in Philadelphia.

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