Flyers Sign Left-Wing Oscar Eklind to a One-Year, Entry-Level Contract
The Philadelphia Flyers today announced the club has signed left wing Oscar Eklind to a one-year, entry-level contract beginning with the 2024-25 season ($950,000 AAV), according to General Manager Daniel Briere.
The Philadelphia Flyers today announced the club has signed left wing Oscar Eklind to a one-year, entry-level contract beginning with the 2024-25 season ($950,000 AAV), according to General Manager Daniel Briere.
Eklind, 25 (7/14/98), spent the 2023-24 season with Lulea HF of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) and collected 28 points (17-11=28) in 48 games. The 6-foot-4, 220-pound Swedish native led Lulea in goals, ranked T-1st in hits (60), second in power-play goals (6) and penalty minutes (64), T-2nd in game-winning goals (3) and fourth in scoring.
Eklind registered 58 points (30-28=58) and 125 PIM in 160 career contests in five SHL seasons (2016-18, 2021-24) with Malmo, Brynas IF Gavle and Lulea HF. He collected 66 points (31-35=66) and 115 PIM in 183 career contests in four seasons (2017-21) with Patern IK and Mora IK of HockeyAllsvenskan.
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‘This is rock bottom’: Tortorella on Flyers’ late-season collapse and blowout loss
In one of their most important (if not, the most important) games of the season, the Philadelphia Flyers fell to their knees and got their head chopped clean off by the Montreal Canadiens to the tune of an 9-3 defeat. It was a kind of demoralizing blowout loss that is clear end of the season and their efforts to make the playoffs. They had four games and eight points to earn, and now their odds of making it into the postseason is minimal at best.
Flyers head coach John Tortorella wants to make it clear that it wasn’t because of a lack of effort from his players, but it was just a sum of multiple factors that caused this collapse in Quebec.
“I’m not questioning their effort, no. I just think we’ve lost ourselves in managing games. I think some guys may feel it a little bit, because they want to get us out of this, but I don’t question the care, I don’t question the effort. It’s been a strong group all year long,” Tortorella said after the blowout loss in Montreal.
“This is rock bottom, tonight, for us. Hate to see us, at this time of year, be playing this way, after all the good minutes we’ve put in throughout the year.”
