Philadelphia Flyers sign Bobby Brink to two-year contract with $1.5 million AAV

The Philadelphia Flyers have signed winger Bobby Brink to a two-year contract with a $1.5 million cap hit.

Brink was a restricted free agent after the conclusion of his three-year entry-level contract with a $925,000 cap hit. He was eligible for arbitration with his next contract, so both parties avoid having to go that route to get a deal done.

There are currently no details regarding any no-move/no-trade clauses or signing bonuses with this contract.

Brink receives a raise of $575,000 per year on his cap hit, with his new contract having the highest AAV of his career. With this new contract, the Flyers lock him up until he’s 24 years old at 1.7% of the 2024-25 salary cap. He shares a cap hit with Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Kiefer Sherwood, Oskar Sundqvist and Isac Lundestrom.

Brink established a more consistent role for himself at the NHL level in 2023-24, as he had 11 goals and 12 assists for 23 points in 57 games. Before this year, he had just 10 games in the NHL, all coming in the 2021-22 season.

Brink still played some game in the AHL with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms last season, most of it coming in a stint in February and then after the Flyers season was done. He had 7 goals and 6 assists for 13 points in 13 games in the regular season, as well as four assists in six playoff games.

Brink was a second-round pick of the Flyers in the 2019 NHL Draft, and after spending the following three seasons with the University of Denver, he made his NHL debut at the tail end of the 2021-22 season. He spent all of the 2022-23 season in the minors before making the NHL team out of training camp in 2023.

Brink is one of a few signings that the Flyers have made in what’s been a quiet offseason so far for the Flyers, as they’ve also extended Garnet Hathaway, and re-signed Erik Johnson. Perhaps their biggest signing was getting top prospect Matvei Michkov signed to his entry-level contract, after the belief that the Flyers wouldn’t be able to get him in the NHL for a couple more seasons. They have just over $2 million in projected salary cap space, with only Egor Zamula left among their unsigned restricted free agents.