The Broad Street Blog

CSN Philly is report­ing that the Fly­ers have signed defense­man Chris Pronger to a multi-year con­tract exten­sion. It will be for 7 years and $35 million, 

Pronger was acquired on June 26th in a trade with the Ana­heim Ducks for Jof­fery Lupul, Luca Sbisa and two first round picks. Con­sid­er­ing they high price that was paid, many were con­cerned that the move could only amount to Pronger being a one year rental player since his cur­rent con­tract has only one year remain­ing. Now, not only do the Fly­ers have him locked up long term, the con­tract will lower his cap hit after this season:

The con­tract is front loaded in order to keep it cap friendly. It is struc­tured sim­i­lar to the deal signed by Mike Richards, also a client of agent Pat Morris…Pronger’s cap num­ber this sea­son is $6.25 mil­lion, but for the next seven sea­sons will be slightly less than $5 mil­lion.