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Flyers acquire Boucher, Foster

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

Frank Seravalli @ 10:13 AM Permalink | 61 comments

61 comments

Comments (64)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:09 PM, 01/13/2013

Booooooosh is back! Glad he's w the Flyers.
Very solid back~up between the posts!

— Skipp2X

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:40 PM, 01/13/2013

We now have the 3 worst goalies in the league, I think it's time for Holmgren to go.

— neddyflanders

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:46 PM, 01/13/2013

They will wind up missing 'Bob' more than anything. He was a stellar 18-3-2, 1.94 in Russia.

Columbus isn't that good, but it wouldn't be at all surprising if Bob turned out to be better than any of these three.

— The Truth Hurts

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:07 PM, 01/13/2013

"Columbus isn't that good, but it wouldn't be at all surprising if Bob turned out to be better than any of these three."

He will certainly be under less fan pressure than he was here. If he's more relaxed, who knows? But he *will* see a lot of rubber though. :-)

— backhand

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:27 PM, 01/13/2013

Having 2 goalies on the team who give up bad goals wasn't good enough. So now we have 3. Didn't we have enough of this nonsense back in 2010? Wasn't Bryz supposed to be the guy who stopped all of this nonsense? Hey, I've got an idea. Call the Islanders and see if they would like to trade Rick DiPietro! That would give us 4 bad goalies! How about if we trade Bryz, Leighton & Boucher and half their salaries to Vancouver for Luongo? That would be better than what we've got now.

— TexColorado

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:33 PM, 01/13/2013

What's with all the negativity? I'm relieved they got Boooosh back. Leighton is beyond pathetic. Flyers needed a better back up.

— Poulin_Fan

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:38 PM, 01/13/2013

You're sending mixed messages here: "What's with all the negativity?"; "Leighton is beyond pathetic."

I am certain that they will give the jobs to the goalies who impress in the short camp. Then, let's play some games before we start crucifying anyone.

Can't we all just get along?

— backhand

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:08 PM, 01/13/2013

The Philadelphia Tyres- Boucher another retread

— ghost78

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:46 PM, 01/13/2013

I am ok with Foster for 20-30 games until Meszaros get healthy. Flyers have a lot of injuries on D, like always. I think Flyers need to add someone like Langkow on that 3rd line instead of Fedotenko. If healthy Langkow can score some points and with Fedotenko on 4th line we have decent depth.

— Nitroglycerin

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:24 PM, 01/13/2013

Wow, that puts the Flyers over the top. Get that confetti ready.

— Drew777

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:28 PM, 01/13/2013

Recycling dead wood...again -.- .

— zsaru

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:33 PM, 01/13/2013

Munroe is on a minor league contract ONLY. If Leighton gets hurt, what is the plan on a call up? Well, now it's Boucher! Sigh. Why post if you don't know what you're just going to be complain instead of looking at the big picture? Sometimes you have to stock the cupboard.

— jeff.deang

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:35 PM, 01/13/2013

Copy paste failed miserably here... Munroe is on a minor league contract ONLY. If Leighton gets hurt, what is the plan on a call up? Well, now it's Boucher! Sigh. [Why post if you don't know what you're talking about and are just going to be complaining instead of looking at the big picture?] Sometimes you have to stock the cupboard.

— jeff.deang