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Flyers acquire Boucher, Foster

POSTED: Sunday, January 13, 2013, 10:10 AM

Flyers defenseman Kurtis Foster takes a shot during his first practice with the team on Sunday, January 13. (Yong Kim/Staff Photographer)

The Flyers have acquired goalie Brian Boucher and free-agent defenseman Kurtis Foster.

Boucher, 36, has played with the Flyers twice before. He was acquired from Carolina for minor league forward Luke Pither. Boucher played 10 games last season as he battled a groin injury. He had a 3.41 goals-against average and .881 save percentage.

Foster, 31, is a righthanded shot. He is 6-5, 226 pounds who played for the Wild, Ducks and Devils last season. He scored four goals and had 10 assists in 51 games.

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Comments (64)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:12 PM, 01/13/2013

Foster IS an AHL type!382 over 10 or 11 years? AHL all over him! Career minus player. Seasoned veteran? LMAO

— twpman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:21 PM, 01/13/2013

Good moves. There will be injuries and having some depth in the condensed regular season and playoffs helps.

— zeke128

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:28 PM, 01/13/2013

Boooooosh!!!! Guess it's back to the minors for leaky

— Stephen45

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:29 PM, 01/13/2013

Goes to show you that all this bluster about BRYZ getting it together and we will see a new BRYZ this year is nothing but talk. The Flyers have no confidence that this guy is going to be any different then last year and are stockpiling alternatives...We have three #2 goalies and 8 third line defensemen. Its going to be a very long short season.

— flyers1000

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:34 PM, 01/13/2013

Leighton packing his bags for Glens Falls...again

— Mr. Chubby

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:39 PM, 01/13/2013

Boosh beats Leighton as a backup any day. He is also a great locker room guy.

— Sidewinder7

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:40 PM, 01/13/2013

Jeez!

— johnny eagle

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:48 PM, 01/13/2013

Wow now they will win the Cup for sure yeah right Homer keep trying maybe one year you will get it right.

— Docdeath20

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:56 PM, 01/13/2013

A battle for back-up goalie, just what we needed, NOT! Just sayin'...

— DJ

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:00 PM, 01/13/2013

Why would you be SITTING during a Parade that took 38 years to have .... ??????

— ingy9

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:07 PM, 01/13/2013

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— scott-stevens-is-god

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:21 PM, 01/13/2013

"destroy u just like last year" LOL Your captain Parise is gone, your best coach (Larry Robinson) is gone. Super Marty is at the Scooter Store for a mobility consulataion and the rest of the Devs are buying giant screen TVs so they can WATCH the playoffs at home.

— FlyerFan4Life

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:50 PM, 01/13/2013

Super Marty "dominate?" You mean Super Marty choke.
Brodeur started his career choking for a hat trick by Mark Messier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNToLO6unyI

And Brodeur ended his playoff career choking for 3 goals on a five minute power play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ra6Gf7_EAs

— FlyerFan4Life

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:57 PM, 01/13/2013

"Super Marty is at the Scooter Store for a mobility consultation ... "

LOL, I love it. How do you come up with these?

— backhand

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:35 PM, 01/13/2013

I'm motivated by the way Super Marty "broke" Bernie's record of 47 wins in a season. Brodeur "won" 48 but he played 4 more games than Parent and he also benefited from ten shoot out wins. He only won 38 in regulation play and OT. Also, Bernie had 12 ties when he set the record in 1973-4. Parent surely would have won at least 6 of those games if he had a shoot out opportinuty which would have given him 53 wins...Parent probably would have won 8 or 9 fiving him 55 or 56 wins...But Super Marty's name is in the record book...What a joke.

— FlyerFan4Life