VOORHEES, N.J.– Nick Seeler is remaining in Philadelphia.
The Flyers signed their “glue guy” defenseman to a four-year, $10.8 million agreement extension Wednesday. The offer has a typical yearly worth of $2.7 million.
The agreement has a no-trade stipulation for many years 1 and 2, according to PuckPedia.com.
Seeler, a team-oriented, defense-first blueliner, has actually been among the Flyers' finest on the back end this season. He leads the NHL with 184 obstructed shots and owns a plus-15 ranking while playing a career-high 16:58 minutes per video game.
The 30-year-old has actually obstructed 4 or more shots in 19 video games this season. The Flyers have actually gotten a minimum of a point in 15 of those 19 video games (13-4-2).
“We like what Nick Seeler has actually supplied us,” basic supervisor Danny Briere stated in January. “We believed he ‘d be a 6th, seventh defenseman for us and he has actually played method above that, he has actually played in our leading 4 for the majority of the year.”
Seeler is on the last year of a two-year agreement with a cap hit of simply $775,000.
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He more than made his brand-new offer.
“Seels is that guy, I do not understand how he does it, however like, he's got no worry when he's playing,” Travis Konecny stated in November. “Big blocks huge time of the video game, makes huge plays, offensively, too, he has actually been contributing. He's simply a guy that you desire on your group. When the group might be down, he's constantly there to trigger the guys with a huge block or a huge play.”
Since of his playoff-like efficiency on a deal, ending agreement, Seeler was a popular name leading up to Friday's 3 p.m. ET NHL trade due date. The Flyers, restoring in a playoff push, valued him extremely.
“We have stated that from the beginning, we're not wanting to trade Seels,” head coach John Tortorella stated 4 days earlier. “He's a big part of the competitiveness of the space, that brings that space together. He's one of the real rivals that I've ever coached as far as how he manages himself.”
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The Flyers signed Nick Seeler to a four-year agreement extension.
Seeler has actually taken an exceptional course to this agreement extension. He didn't play hockey in 2020-21, when the NHL had actually a reduced 56-game season since of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I wasn't sure what my strategy was when I took the year off,” Seeler stated in February 2023. “I simply required sort of a psychological and physical break. A couple of months passed and began to get that fire which enthusiasm back, that real enthusiasm for the video game.”
To return in the video game, Seeler signed a 1 year, two-way agreement with the Flyers and won a task in training school for the 2021-22 season.
