Report: Flyers re-sign Carl Grundstrom to one-year contract
A veteran rearguard is sticking around the City of Brotherly Love for another year.
According to TSN’s Darren Dreger, the Philadelphia Flyers have re-signed defenseman Carl Grundstrom to a one-year contract. The deal will carry a cap hit of $1 million through the 2026-27 season.
Carl Grundström returns to Philly one year, $1 million.
It’s a slight pay dip for Grundstrom, who is coming off the two-year contract he signed with the San Jose Sharks in July 2024. That deal had an AAV of $1.8 million. He would’ve become an unrestricted free agent had he made it to July 1.
After spending the entire 2024-25 season with the Sharks, the Swedish blueliner, along with Artem Guryev, was traded to the Flyers in October, in exchange for Ryan Ellis’s contract and a sixth-round pick in this year’s NHL Draft. Grundstrom ended up splitting time between Philadelphia and the team’s American Hockey League affiliate, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. In 47 games with the Flyers, he notched nine goals and four assists for 13 points, registering a plus/minus of +7 while averaging just under 12 minutes of ice time per game.
In 19 games with the Phantoms, Grundstrom posted six goals and nine assists for 15 points, with a +5 rating.
Once regarded as a strong defensive prospect, Grundstrom has settled into the role of a third, sometimes second-pair blueliner. He was originally drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the second round of the 2016 draft, but was part of the package sent to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Jake Muzzin in January 2019. After spending six seasons in the Kings’ system, he was then traded to the Sharks for Kyle Burroughs in June 2024.
In 339 regular-season games in the NHL, the 28-year-old has scored 52 goals and 37 assists for 89 points.