Talbot has broken leg; Flyers in trade talks
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Talbot has broken leg; Flyers in trade talks
Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
The Flyers announced on Monday that forward Max Talbot has a broken left leg, suffered in Sunday's wild 5-4 OT win over Washington.
Talbot will likely miss the rest of the season.
The Flyers may recall Eric Wellwood from the Phantoms.
A league source confirmed that the Flyers are having exploratory trade talks for Dallas winger Jaromir Jagr, Calgary defenseman Jay Bouwmeester and San Jose winger Ryane Clowe.Bouwmeester, however, was traded to St. Louis on Monday night.
Talbot, arguably the Flyers' best penalty killer, had four goals in his last nine games.
"Some guys have to step up now," winger Zac Rinaldo said.
Talbot, 29, was injured after colliding with the Capitals' Mike Green and had to be carried to the locker room during Sunday's second period.
The Flyers are making a late playoff run _ at the same time they have been hit hard by injuries. They have lost Nick Grossmann, Braydon Coburn, Andrej Meszaros, Danny Briere and Talbot to injuries in a nine-day span.
GM Paul Holmgren said Saturday the Flyers would not pursue a "rental" player for the stretch run, but after wins over Boston and Washington over the weekend moved the Flyers to within two points of eighth place in the East, he apparently has had a change of heart.
Jagr, having an impressive season with Dallas, is available, and he had great chemistry with the Flyers last season.
Clowe, who has no goals in 28 games, is also a possibilty.
The Flyers have $3.5 million in cap space, but that can grow substantially if they place more injured players on the LTIR list. Currently, only Chris Pronger, Matt Walker and Jody Shelley are on LTIR.
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Flyers droppin like...well, flies.
Bad news as Max was playing very well. A key piece of the PK.— Poppys- Agreed, bro. Very bad news....Max is a great penalty killer and was starting to find his game offensively. Now it's time for the old coaching cliché: Someone else has to step up.
- wow...it never ends this year.— uncle meat
- That terrible news about max. Sorry to hear that. He's a standup guy on and off the ice.— NICKFATCITY
- Ouch. Wasn't as gruesome as that dude on Louisville, thankfully, but still not good...— Ump Al
- I guess a "broken" leg is better than a achilles tear or ACL tear. Could have been alot worse.— k1084
- When will this injury bug will end?— z03mbm
- Get well soon, Max, you'll be back!— flyerdommo
- season=mulligan— the lopez!
- Not good news for Max or the Flyers, but I guess this means he's definitely off the trade market. Btw, is anyone else annoyed that Matt Read's name keeps coming up in trade rumors? He lead all rookies in goals last year and has started picking it up this year after the rib/abdominal injury. We need to keep Read. Trade Hartnell to shed salary.— flyerguy77
- Hartnell just signed a big contract with a 100% no movement clause. Briere and Bryzgalov have the same clause. Can't trade, can't send to the minors. The only option is amnesty or convincing the players to waive the clause. Teams inquired about Briere before his concussion, but Briere has no interest in waiving the clause. These guys are going to get old on the Flyers and hog up cap space. So if anyone gets traded it will be a young cap friendly player.
People forgot that the new CBA and ridiculous long term no movement contracts have crippled this franchise. I hope we didn't just switch places with Toronto who missed the playoffs for eight seasons. Doesn't look good now. It will take more than a four point weekend for me to have optimism with this team. - And the hits just keep on coming....— Phillyfan666
- @flyerguy77 - I hope not. Holmgren will be stupid if he do that.— z03mbm
Every team has injuries to overcome and that's never a rational excuse for poor play, but Flyers players are dropping like fly balls in the Phillies outfield. I'm starting to refer to the lockout as "the good ol' days".- wonder which is the safer bet-for Bouwmeester to return to the form that got him 6 million per season or for Burns to become a top defenseman (as opposed to a Dustin Bufyglien style hybrid wing/defense)— yantastic
