Flyers make two trades, sign goaltender
Friday, June 24, 2011 by Admin
Mike Richards and Jeff Carter, two key cogs in the Philadelphia Flyers' run to the Stanley Cup finals a year ago, were dealt in a pair of trades Thursday that shake up the franchise on the eve of the draft.
The moves cleared needed salary cap space to sign goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov, a deal the club announced later in the day. TSN reported it was a $51-million, nine-year deal. The Flyers acquired the rights to Bryzgalov, 31, from Phoenix this month.
The Flyers moved over $100 million in salary in Thursday's deals that sent Richards to the Kings and Carter to the Blue Jackets. Richards has nine years left on a 12-year extension and Carter agreed in November to a $58-million, 11-year pact.
Richards was traded for forwards Brayden Schenn and Wayne Simmonds and a second-round pick. Carter was traded for forward Jake Voracek and Columbus' first- and third-round picks.
- Andrei Markov has signed a three-year, $17.25 million contract to stay with the Canadiens through the 2013-14 season.
- The NHL salary cap is rising for the sixth consecutive season since being established in 2005, this time an increase of $4.9 million to $64.3 million.
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Top prep basketball player transfers
Bishop O'Dowd-Oakland incoming senior Brandon Ashley will transfer to Findlay Prep of Henderson, Nev., his mother, Lashiem Clark, confirmed to The Chronicle on Thursday.
Ashley, a multi-faceted 6-foot-8 forward, is a two-time first-team All-Metro performer and considered one of the top 20 players in the nation. He averaged 15 points and 10 rebounds a game last season for the two-time defending Northern California Division III champions. Findlay Prep, which houses high-level players from throughout the country, was the 2009-10 mythical national champion.
Track and field: Michelle Carter, the daughter of former 49ers lineman Michael Carter, won the shot put at the U.S. Nationals in Eugene, Ore.
Colleges: Stanford won the inaugural Capital One Cup for cumulative on-field performance across multiple women's sports and will receive a $200,000 donation to fund student-athlete graduate-level scholarships. The Cardinal, who scored 121 points to top second-place Texas A&M by nine, earned six top-five finishes, including seconds in soccer, tennis and rowing. Cal was third with 106 points.
-- Lonnie White, a receiver at USC from 1982-86 under head coaches John Robinson and Ted Tollner, took $14,000 in illegal payments during his four-year career in the 1980s, mostly by selling game tickets allotted to scholarship players, wrote the former Los Angeles Times sports writer in a first-person story published Wednesday in the Daily online publication.
America's Cup: The Real Club Nautico de Valencia and Green Comm Racing announced their challenge for the America's Cup to complete the field of nine teams from eight nations that will race at the first America's Cup World Series regatta in August in Cascais, Portugal. Defending champion Oracle Racing of San Francisco will enter two boats in the series, a buildup to the America's Cup on San Francisco Bay in 2013.
Pro-Am: Kiwi Gardner scored 52 points as the Dream Team defeated Bay City 113-92 in men's Pro-Am basketball at Kezar Pavilion.
The moves cleared needed salary cap space to sign goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov, a deal the club announced later in the day. TSN reported it was a $51-million, nine-year deal. The Flyers acquired the rights to Bryzgalov, 31, from Phoenix this month.
The Flyers moved over $100 million in salary in Thursday's deals that sent Richards to the Kings and Carter to the Blue Jackets. Richards has nine years left on a 12-year extension and Carter agreed in November to a $58-million, 11-year pact.
Richards was traded for forwards Brayden Schenn and Wayne Simmonds and a second-round pick. Carter was traded for forward Jake Voracek and Columbus' first- and third-round picks.
- Andrei Markov has signed a three-year, $17.25 million contract to stay with the Canadiens through the 2013-14 season.
- The NHL salary cap is rising for the sixth consecutive season since being established in 2005, this time an increase of $4.9 million to $64.3 million.
ELSEWHERE
Top prep basketball player transfers
Bishop O'Dowd-Oakland incoming senior Brandon Ashley will transfer to Findlay Prep of Henderson, Nev., his mother, Lashiem Clark, confirmed to The Chronicle on Thursday.
Ashley, a multi-faceted 6-foot-8 forward, is a two-time first-team All-Metro performer and considered one of the top 20 players in the nation. He averaged 15 points and 10 rebounds a game last season for the two-time defending Northern California Division III champions. Findlay Prep, which houses high-level players from throughout the country, was the 2009-10 mythical national champion.
Track and field: Michelle Carter, the daughter of former 49ers lineman Michael Carter, won the shot put at the U.S. Nationals in Eugene, Ore.
Colleges: Stanford won the inaugural Capital One Cup for cumulative on-field performance across multiple women's sports and will receive a $200,000 donation to fund student-athlete graduate-level scholarships. The Cardinal, who scored 121 points to top second-place Texas A&M by nine, earned six top-five finishes, including seconds in soccer, tennis and rowing. Cal was third with 106 points.
-- Lonnie White, a receiver at USC from 1982-86 under head coaches John Robinson and Ted Tollner, took $14,000 in illegal payments during his four-year career in the 1980s, mostly by selling game tickets allotted to scholarship players, wrote the former Los Angeles Times sports writer in a first-person story published Wednesday in the Daily online publication.
America's Cup: The Real Club Nautico de Valencia and Green Comm Racing announced their challenge for the America's Cup to complete the field of nine teams from eight nations that will race at the first America's Cup World Series regatta in August in Cascais, Portugal. Defending champion Oracle Racing of San Francisco will enter two boats in the series, a buildup to the America's Cup on San Francisco Bay in 2013.
Pro-Am: Kiwi Gardner scored 52 points as the Dream Team defeated Bay City 113-92 in men's Pro-Am basketball at Kezar Pavilion.
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