Flyers call up goalie Carter Hutton
The Flyers lost another goalie on Saturday in Pittsburgh.
Flyers call up goalie Carter Hutton
*UPDATE*
The Flyers have called up goalie Carter Hutton, freshly signed from UMass-Lowell, to replace the injured Johan Backlund on the Flyers' roster.
Hutton was signed last week by the Flyers, straight from college.
Hutton, 24, played his college hockey at the University of Massachusetts Lowell of Hockey
Hutton completed his four-year career at UMass-Lowell as the school's all-time leader in shutouts (10) and goals-against average (2.33) and is tied for the career lead in save percentage (0.913)
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First it was Ray Emery.
Then it was Brian Boucher, followed by Michael Leighton.
And today it was Johan Backlund.
As the Flyers’ fourth starting goalie this season, Backlund was forced to leave his NHL debut against the Penguins after the second period with a re-aggravated groin injury. Backlund was seen stretching through numerous stoppages at Mellon Arena.
Boucher replaced him to start the third period.
But it wasn’t because of Backlund’s performance. Backlund stopped 22-of-24 shots and gave the Flyers, who scored just 62 seconds into the contest, a chance to win.
They ultimately fell, 4-1, to the Penguins – and thanks to a Bruins 5-0 win over Calgary – dropped into 8th place in the Eastern Conference.
Backlund first injured his groin with the Phantoms in a 2-1 overtime win against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on March 14. It kept him from being recalled as Boucher’s backup when Leighton went down in Nashville on March 16.
Jeremy Duchesne was Boucher’s backup for four games until Thursday’s 4-3 loss to Minnesota.
There has been no word from the Flyers yet as to whether Duchesne will need to be re-called to replace Backlund for Sunday’s matchup with the Devils at the Wachovia Center.
The Flyers aren’t yet out of the woods today, though. More damage can be done with games remaining on the docket from the Rangers and Thrashers, who are nipping at the floundering Flyers’ heels.
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Place the blame where it belongs....with Bobby Clarke. He spent all that time and money trying to rebuild the 70's Flyers. Where did that get the Flyers?? Nowhere. Right into the crapper.— southjerseyjeff- In case anyone was wondering, Hartnell's been paid $300,000 per goal this season.— 88etrain
- We can highlight the poor officiating all we want, but the bottom line is "good play creates good breaks". Enough said.— dri_as_a_bone
- For a team facing already adversity to have to have the refs blowing calls as well is inexcusable. Since when does a goalie get to be clearly in the white ice and not be touched? Was there a whistle? No! So why no goal by Gags? Oh, after the fact, I see... not! And Cindy runs into Hartnell from behind and Hartnell gets a roughing? Get real.— GrnMtBoy
- Colin Campbell in the NHL had big money in Las Vegas riding on this game. Refs had to call to Toronto on the disallowed goal so he could make it right. Marouelli and the other clown felt they could make the non-call on the Fleury stick throw without any outside help. Chamberlain ghost wrote "My Life in a Bush League" for SI years ago. I'm waiting for Scott Hartnell to write an article in need of re-writing now. Under Gary Bettman and Colin Campbell the NHL is truly bush league. Sorry for anyone spending money on it.— Claudio Vernight
- This club is heartless. Plain and simple. Holmgren has continually failed to put a cohesive team together that has any shot of beating the top teams in the league while at the same time managing to mortgage their future. The 15 year goaltending carousel is a complete embarrassment. This franchise is a joke.
southjerseyjeff, it isn't about whether it's the refs' "fault". It's about whether the refs are competent to allow a game decided by the teams. From Rule 69.1: "Incidental contact with a goalkeeper will be permitted, and resulting goals allowed, when such contact is initiated outside of the goal crease, provided the attacking player has made a reasonable effort to avoid such contact. The rule will be enforced exclusively in accordance with the on-ice judgment of the Referee(s), and not by means of video replay or review." Get that? "Incidental contact", "goals allowed", "not by means of video". ACCORDING TO THE RULE, there cannot be a disallowed goal WITHOUT an accompanying interference penalty.— icarus- IT'S OVER NOW! FIRE HOMER, FIRE HOMER, FIRE HOMER. WE HAVE NO TOP NEW PROSPECTS; FIRE HOMER! WE GAVE UP TWO FIRST ROUND PICKS AND LUPUL AND SPEIZA FOR PRONGER, AND THIS YEARS 1ST ROUNDER WILL PROBABLY BE AT LEAST THE 14TH IN THE FIRST ROUND, FIRE HOMER! MIKE RICHARDS IS OVERPAID 6.5 MILLION FOR 12 YRS, FIRE HOMER!RICHARDS IS OUR ANSWER TO CROSBY FOR 12 MORE YEARS, FIRE HOMER! WE OVER PAID HARTNELL, AND TIMO FOR A 1ST ROUND PICK, FIRE HOMER! WE WILL BE SH-T FOR YEARS, FIRE HOMER!— Joe Vegas
- There is obviously something bigger go on than the refs. The players are not playing for one another. I counted at least 10 times where a Flyer player gave up on a lose puck or an opportunity to create a play. I dont care what these guys or Lavi say, they have packed it in for the year. There done! They have had at least 4 games to show their resolve and each time they have crumbled. This is worse than 3 years ago when they finished dead last in the NHL.— Fabulous
- This is getting absolutely ridiculous with players getting hurt immediately when they're "supposed" to be recovered from a prior injury. After this happens this many times, over this many years, you have to wonder if McCrossin and the training staff are pushing these guys back out on the ice too quickly, for whatever reason. This happens all the time with this team!!!— th
- This is the 3rd game this year against the puns that we had a goal disallowed. 3 games..3 goals caled back.. now thats a fact,— dedhed
- This Flyers team sucks. I don't watch the games anymore. I just check who they lost to. I am dropping my subscription to Directv to watch this Flyers team and maybe if enough other people sent a similar message to Snider, he'd get it.....get it?— PJL51
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