Detroit Red Wings sign goaltender Alex Lyon to two-year contract
The Detroit Red Wings have signed goaltender Alex Lyon to a two-year contract in unrestricted free agency.
Lyon, 30, posted a 9–4–2 record and a .915 save percentage in 15 games with the Florida Panthers during the 2022–23 regular season.
The six-foot-one goaltender was Florida’s playoff starter for three games before being replaced by Sergei Bobrovsky for the rest of the Panthers’ improbable run to the 2023 Stanley Cup Final.
Lyon’s deal with the Red Wings reportedly carries a $900,000 NHL cap hit. He had previously been on a one-year, two-way deal with the Panthers during the 2022–23 season.
The #LGRW signed 30 y/o UFA G Alex Lyon to 2 year $900K Cap Hit Deal
914 SV% in 15 GP
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The Philadelphia Flyers originally signed Lyon as an undrafted goaltender out of Yale University in 2016. The Baudette, Minnesota product spent five full seasons in the Flyers organization before leaving to join the Carolina Hurricanes in 2021.
Then, after appearing in just two games with the Hurricanes in the 2021–22 season, Lyon joined the Panthers in a bid to become their third-string goaltender. He ended up becoming their backup after Spencer Knight entered the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program midway through the season.
Through 39 career NHL games over parts of six NHL seasons with the Flyers, Hurricanes, and Panthers, Lyon has posted a 16–11–5 record and a .904 save percentage. He went 1–2 with an .888 save percentage in four games with the Panthers during the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Lyon now joins a Red Wings team that also has Ville Husso, the newly-signed James Reimer, and top prospect Sebastian Cossa vying for positioning within the organization.