New Delhi, July 2 -- Tyson Foerster's biggest night as a Philadelphia Flyer lasted about four seconds, and the team just paid him for eight years on the strength of it.

The Flyers signed Foerster to an eight-year, 56.8 million dollar contract extension on Wednesday, according to a report from NHL.com, an average annual value of 7.1 million dollars that will begin once his current bridge deal expires after next season. The 24-year-old winger, Philadelphia's first-round pick, 23rd overall, in the 2020 NHL Draft, was entering the final year of a two-year, 7.5 million dollar contract when the team decided not to wait to find out what he would be worth on the open market.

General manager Daniel Briere framed the extension as a bet on the pla...