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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Randy Jones claimed by Kings

Defenseman Randy Jones was claimed off waivers today by the Los Angeles Kings. Jones had been sent by the Flyers to the Adirondack Phantoms, their AHL affiliate.

The Flyers yesterday placed re-entry waivers on Jones to return him to Philadelphia. Jones was sent to the Phantoms as part of a salary-cap move.

The Flyers and Kings will split his $3 million salary, with each team taking a $1.5 million cap hit.

Kings coach Terry Murray was an assistant coach for the Flyers when Jones played here and Kings assistant GM Ron Hextall was a longtime Flyers goalie.

Posted by Daily News staff @ 1:16 PM  Permalink | 10 comments
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Posted 02:57 PM, 10/29/2009
indy55
Nice move Homer!!!
Posted 04:10 PM, 10/29/2009
knight
Sending Cote and Carcillo to the AHL will free up more cap space. But then I am not sure I would do that to the Phantoms!How about the ECHL?
Posted 04:43 PM, 10/29/2009
pucky88
I hate this team...
Posted 05:11 PM, 10/29/2009
bloome
I think you got that cap hit wrong. Wasn't his cap hit 2.75 which would put the Flyers on the hook for 1.375? That took me all of a second to confirm. Quality reporting Frank!
Posted 05:32 PM, 10/29/2009
jjritchie148
why cant we put Rathje on waivers..great move....more dead money to our cap.
Posted 12:35 AM, 10/30/2009
Joe Vegas
Homer wise up, it's the coach not the players. Fire Stevens we'll go on a winning streak
Posted 07:03 AM, 10/30/2009
woodyinc
you can't waive rathje cause he's injured. because he's injured, there's no cap hit anyway.
Posted 08:09 AM, 10/30/2009
america
Rathje's salary doesn't count against the cap jjritchie. Perhaps you should know what you're talking about before you post. And just so you know, now that Gagne is out long-term, his salary won't count either.
Posted 10:20 AM, 10/30/2009
justguessing
bloome is right about the cap hit...obviously. Frank, do you even have any interest in this? Holmgren really should have made some more phone calls before trying to pull this off. His cap management has been as awful as Seravalli's coverage.
Posted 02:55 PM, 10/31/2009
ryno5
You all are splitting hairs over 1.5 - 1.375 = $125,000, or roughly 1/3 of Riley Cote. The point is, Homer just dropped a deuce in his his bedroom.
About Frank Seravalli
Frank Seravalli is in his second year with the Daily News and his first season covering the Flyers. He is a graduate of Holy Ghost Prep and Penn State. He spent most of the 2007-08 season covering the Flyers for ComcastSportsNet.com, has covered the World Junior Championships twice and has done a large amount of freelance work for NHL.com, the Associated Press, the Bucks County Courier-Times, the Delaware County Times, among others.

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