Flyers place Tyson Foerster on injured reserve with lower-body injury

The Philadelphia Flyers have placed forward Tyson Foerster on their injured reserve list as he recovers from a lower-body injury, the club announced Monday afternoon.

Foerster, 23, sustained the injury during Saturday’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs after blocking a shot by defenseman Morgan Rielly. The 6’2″ right wing left in the first period but returned to finish the game, notching a goal late in regulation time to help the Flyers win by a 5-2 final score.

The Flyers have now placed Foerster on injured reserve retroactive to Nov. 1, meaning he will be eligible to return to the lineup as soon as their game against the Ottawa Senators this coming Saturday. In a corresponding move on Monday, the Flyers recalled defenseman Emil Andrae from the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms.

Through 11 games with the Flyers this season, Foerster has collected four goals and seven points.

A first-round pick (No. 23 overall) of the Flyers in the 2020 NHL Draft, Foerster spent his junior career with the OHL’s Barrie Colts. He made his professional debut with Lehigh Valley in the 2020-21 season and appeared in his first eight NHL games with the Flyers in 2022-23.

As a rookie with the Flyers in the 2023-24 season, Foerster collected 20 goals and 33 points in 77 games. The Alliston, Ontario product increased his output to 25 goals and 43 points in 81 games the following season, prompting the Flyers to sign him to a new two-year, $3.75 million-AAV contract as a restricted free agent.

After their 2-1 loss to the Calgary Flames on Sunday evening, the Flyers currently occupy eighth place in the Metropolitan Division and 16th in the Eastern Conference with a 6-5-1 record and 13 points through 12 games. The Flyers have not qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs since 2020.

Through 177 career NHL games over parts of four seasons with the Flyers, Foerster has amassed 52 goals, 90 points, and 101 penalty minutes. He holds a minus-2 rating for his career to date.