The Philadelphia Flyers drew a day matinee towards the Minnesota Wild on Saturday and it bought off to a sizzling begin for the Flyers and one participant specifically — Sean Couturier. Simply over a minute into the sport, the Flyers’ captain pounced on a rebound off the pads of Filip Gustavsson and put it behind the Wild goaltender for the primary aim of the sport and — on a private stage — his five hundredth profession NHL level.
Drafted eighth total in 2011 by the Flyers, Couturier has spent his total profession with the Flyers — a profession that has spanned over 13 seasons to date. Over that span, he has 193 targets and 502 factors by means of 803 common season video games.
Couturier’s finest offensive seasons got here again in 2017-18 and 2018-19 when he had 31 and 33 targets, respectively, with 76 factors every of these two seasons. He took over for Claude Giroux because the captain of the Flyers previous to the 2023-24 season earlier than having his worst offensive season since 2016-17.
CAPTAIN COOTS GETS THE PARTY STARTED EARLY 🚨
Profession level No. 500 for Sean Couturier! pic.twitter.com/ffurphZJkZ
— NBC Sports activities Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) October 26, 2024
Organizationally, he’s amongst the highest gamers in quite a few classes — together with fourth all-time in video games performed for the Flyers (803), seventeenth all-time in targets (193), 14th all-time in assists (309) and sixteenth all-time in factors (502). He additionally sits simply six factors again of Rick Tocchet on the all-time factors record and only one help again of tying John LeClair on the all-time assists record.
He’s the 551st participant all-time to achieve the 500-point plateau and simply the 74th energetic participant to achieve that mark. As for his draft colleagues, he’s the eleventh participant from the 2011 draft to hit 500 profession factors.
Couturier is beneath contract by means of 2030 with a mean annual worth (AAV) of $7.75 million — the best paid participant on the Flyers proper now.
