The Philadelphia Flyers finish the trade deadline with a flurry of fringe moves, including a trade that sent Bobby Brink to the Minnesota Wild for defenseman David Jiricek, shuffling a few prospects around in the minor leagues, and sending Nic Deslauriers to the Carolina Hurricanes to do the veteran a solid by putting him on a Stanley Cup-contending team. Ultimately, the Flyers never traded their most notable asset, Rasmus Ristolainen, who will remain with the team the rest of this season, and we'll see what happens in the summer.
Aside from trades, the Flyers also claimed a player off waivers: Luke Glendening, waived by the New Jersey Devils.
PHI claims Glendening
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VAN claims Douglas
FLA claims Reinhardt
Presumably, Glendening will fill in as a fourth-line center through the end of the season. The 36-year old veteran depth forward's $775k-AAV contract expires this summer. He played 52 games with the Devils this season, where he scored zero goals and four assists while averaging 9:54 of ice time each game.
Glendening has been in the NHL since the 2013-14 season as a member of the Detroit Red Wings. After eight years in Detroit, he spent two years with the Dallas Stars, followed by two years with the Tampa Bay Lightning. The deal he signed with the Devils was a one-year contract.
For his career, Glendening has 83 goals, 87 assists, and a total of 170 points in 916 career games. Scoring is not his calling card, but he is something of a wizard in the faceoff dot: he averaged 55.6 percent for his career, and has been over 50 percent in every season aside from his rookie year. In his final year with Detroit, he was over 60 percent. Along with being exceptional at faceoffs, he'll make a solid penalty killer for the Flyers.
Adding Glendening sends the message that the Flyers don't consider any of their players in Lehigh Valley capable of filling in as a fourth-line center for the remainder of the season. That could change, but for now, Glendening will join the Flyers.