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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Starting 1st line Sunday...Lappy between Cote and Carcillo. 2nd line Betts between Powe and Asham. 3rd line Richards between Gagne and Giroux. 4th line Briere between Hartnell and Leno or whatever his name is.— cleflyer- Between having to put up with that disgraceful officiating, listening to the BIGGEST homer Penguin announcers EVER and the Flyers lack of caring for or retaliation of said misdeeds I dont think I can watch anymore this year...I mean my family room saw more emotion and assault of furniture than the Flyers showed out there today! Lavy looks like he cant take anymore and didnt even show his anger that he usually shows when his team gets screwed...looked like Stevens back there today! What happened to the days of throwing everything on the bench, sticks, water bottles, etc on the ice to make your point! Who cares about the consequences, it wont effect the outcome either way. Homer you need to come out in the media and say something about the officiating no matter what the fine, Im sure Lukko will pick it up! How bout some Philly emotion?! Should have been 10 guys going at it at the end of that game, instead nothing....emabarassing!— TNFlyerNut
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- Everyone . . you could see this coming when the pens lucked out and got crybaby crosby and the caps ended up with ovie . . . richards and carter are good . . but not in that same class . . Flyers on the other hand had a terrible year and ended up w / JVR . . big difference . . just unlucky . . . I remember thinking just after the pens won the crosby lottery . . . we were in big trouble for the next 10 - 12 years . . unfortunately this may be the case . . .— ingy9
- Yeah. It's allthe officials' fault. Because Hartnell et al are such model citizens. I love how you people always jump to the conclusion that the league is just so biased towards Crosby. It wasn't too long ago that the league did everything in it's power to tilt the ice towards Lindros.— southjerseyjeff
- The NHL should have a "protest" clause in it's rules. because either the officials don't know the rules or they refuse to enforce them..Shame the NHL doesn't have a commissioner..
There were actually 2 missed calls on goal 3: holding the stick in the corner and then a cross-check to Betts' back in front of the net that freed up the rebound for the goal (the refs had to see it, after all they knew who to give the assist to). The thrown stick against an unchallenged attacker - flagrant. Hartnell gets a penalty for getting checked and knocked down? And where is the rule that disallows a goal for contact that isn't a penalty - you can hit the goalie but you can't score? Or is it that you can't score if their defense knocks you into their own goalie? Wow. No wonder ESPN bowed out of televising the NHL. At least let teams win or lose on their own right.— icarus- NEWSFLASH Cazptain Philadelphia: Emery & Leighton are done for the season. If you haven't noticed, we're on our fourth-string goalie now. I agree that the forwards are underachieving as a group, but our problems are much bigger than that.— 88etrain
- with all that said...this team stinks! No leadership, no commitment, no consistency, very poor management and an oversupply of underacheivers!— TNFlyerNut
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- Score was 4-1. Put pucks in the net. That's how you win in the NHL.— southjerseyjeff
- I posted earlier in the season that Richards was not deserving of the 'C' on his chest, and most mocked me and did not let me play in any reindeer games. Now that the season is sinking faster than a Steven A. Smith sports talk show, Richards is showing that as a captain he has a lot to learn and as a player he has become a non-entity. Even the sportscasters now are questioning his leadership and his playing ability. Time to find the next Flyer to lead this team.— rockinrob
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