According to Daily Times hockey writer Anthony SanFilippo , a source with full knowledge of the Philadelphia Flyers personnel decisions and plans has made it clear to him that the Flyers are going to focus on acquiring a young, long-term solution at goalie this coming offseason.
The source told SanFilippo: "We can't go into next year with the same situation or a similar situation in goal that we have right now. What happened this year is really nobody's fault. Ray (Emery) came in here and did everything we asked and was good until he got hurt. We got lucky with (Michael) Leighton, but we can't expect to win doing things this way in goal."
"It's already been decided that our No. 1 priority for next season is to get a goalie. We have to go out and get that player and commit to him as our guy."
The Flyers haven't had much luck finding franchise goalies in their history as only Bernie Parent and Pelle Lindbergh stand as the only true No. 1 goalies in the team's history. They haven't had a young capable starting goalie since the early days of Ron Hextall, and that's over two decades ago.
The Flyers have struck out mult ...
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Philadelphia Flyers Will Focus on Finding Long Term Goalie
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