A few days after their disappointing end of the season, the Flyers' GM Danny Briere met with the media for one last time before the summer.
He discussed many interesting things, including Ryan Johansen's status for the next season.
According to him, he won't be back with the team next year, and believes his hockey career will come to an end, probably because of his undisclosed injury.
Last March, the Flyers placed Johansen on waivers, a few hours after trading for him with the Colorado Avalanche. He cleared waivers, but didn't report to the Lehigh Valley in the AHL. It turned out that the Flyers didn't know he was dealing with an injury at that time, which made him ineligible to be sent down.
Johansen has one year left on his $8 million contract. Fortunately for the Flyers, they only have to pay half of his salary, as the other half is paid by the Preds.
More to come.
Source: Blade of Steel - Danny Briere doesn't think Johansen can play hockey again
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AVRIL 20 | 107 ANSWERS Ryan Johansen likely done in the NHL after comments from Danny Briere Do you think Ryan Johansen's career in the NHL is over? | ||
| Yes | 74 | 69.2 % |
| No | 33 | 30.8 % |
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| G | A | PTS | ||
| Devon Toews | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Cale Makar | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Quinn Hughes | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Nathan MacKinnon | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Martin Necas | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Artturi Lehkonen | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Sam Malinski | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Kaiden Guhle | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Valeri Nichushkin | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Nick Blankenburg | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Jack Drury | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Marcus Foligno | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Ryan Hartman | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Dominic James | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Marcus Johansson | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Nazem Kadri | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Alex Newhook | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Nick Suzuki | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Vladimir Tarasenko | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Mats Zuccarello | 1 | - | 1 | |
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