The Philadelphia Flyers have traded Ivan Provorov, sending away the defenceman who boycotted the team's Pride night as part of a three-team trade that included the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Los Angeles Kings.
The seventh overall pick of the 2015 draft, the 26-year-old Provorov lands in Columbus and is set to enter the fifth season of a $40.5 million US, six-year contract.
He was the centrepiece Tuesday of the first major move under new Flyers' leadership. There were plenty of moving parts in the three-team deal.
The Flyers already hold the No. 7 pick in this season's draft and now also have the 23rd pick as they start accumulating key assets for long-range success in what is expected to be a deep draft.
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