Flyers trade Andrei Kuzmenko to Los Angeles for 2027 third round pick

The Philadelphia Flyers have made their first deal on deadline day. And it’s a player who spent just 37 days with the club.

Andrei Kuzmenko, acquired by general manager Daniel Briere and the Flyers in the late January deal that sent Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee to Calgary, now heads to a new — and much warmer — locale in Los Angeles. Flyers head coach John Tortorella confirmed the trade.

In return for Kuzmenko, the Flyers received a 2027 third round pick from Los Angeles, retaining 50 percent of Kuzmenko’s $5.5 million cap hit in the process. The Flyers also shipped out a 2025 seventh round pick to complete the deal.

The trade of Kuzmenko serves to close the book on the Farabee/Frost deal. Kuzmenko was a pending UFA, and while the Flyers remained open publicly to the idea of re-signing Kuzmenko, as a 29-year old winger already jettisoned by two teams, it always seemed unlikely that he fit in the team’s future plans. Now, the guts of the package in return for Farabee and Frost is a 2025 second round pick, a 2027 third round pick, and Jakob Pelletier.

More on this trade — and the rest of the Flyers work at the trade deadline — will be on ALLPHLY.com in the coming hours.