The Flyers currently have 50 players on their organizational
reserve list. Fifty is technically the maximum.
However, there are two players on the Flyers' reserve list for whom the "slide rule" applies -- Nick Cousins and Derek Mathers. Under the slide rule, a junior-hockey eligible player's entry-level contract can be pushed back for the season if he fails to make the NHL roster. Philadelphia has 48 non-sliding contracts.
As such, if the Flyers were able to lure Shane Doan to Philadelphia as a free agent, the reserve list maximum would NOT prevent them from doing so. Likewise, if the Flyers were to invite an undrafted tryout player (such as Christopher Clapperton) to camp and sign him to a contract, the contract would be eligible to slide for the season.
Earlier this summer, the Flyers bought out the contract of defenseman Oskars Bartulis -- taking on $100,000 of dead salary cap space for the next two seasons as a result, but also freeing up a spot on the reserve list.
Hope that answers the question for those who have asked me.
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Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov was among the current NHL players who participated in Saturday's Lokomotiv Memorial Game fundraising exhibition in Kloten, Switzerland. The exhibition game pitted a Swiss National League team, the Kloten Flyers, against an All-Star Team that included many current and former NHL players.
The All-Stars won, 9-6. Among Bryzgalov's teammates were Evgeni Malkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Pavel Datsyuk, Alexander Semin, Alexander Radulov, Alexei Yashin, Sergei Fedorv and Alexei Kovalev. Radulov scored four goals in the game.
A crowd of 5,293 turned out to Kloten's Kolping Arena (7,719 capacity) to honor the memory of the Lokomotiv players and coaches who perished in last year's plane crash. The game raised about $82,000 and the organizers split the proceeds evenly between the youth hockey programs for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and the Kloten Flyers.
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Congratulations go out to former Flyers center Rod Brind'Amour. Last week, he was one of five men inducted into the British Columbia Hockey Hall of Fame. The other inductees were former All-Star defenseman Scott Niedermayer, broadcaster Jim Hughson, former University of British Columbia head coach and 1964 Team Canada Olympic assistant coach Robert Hindmarch and BCHHF founder Scott Carter.
Although born in Ottawa, Brind'Amour was raised in Prince Rupert and Campbell River, British Columbia. He attended the famed Notre Dame prep school in Saskatchewan before moving on to play U.S. collegiate (one season for Michigan State) and pro hockey.
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