The Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday agreed to terms with college free agent Kyle Flanagan on a one-year entry-level contract.

He will join Philadelphia's AHL affiliate, the Adirondack Phantoms, on an amateur tryout contract for the remainder of the 2012-13 season.

Defenseman Andrej Sustr, an undrafted free agent who just completed his third season with Nebraska-Omaha, reportedly has signed a two-year entry-level deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning.

TSN's Bob McKenzie reported the signing via Twitter.

The 22-year-old Czech defenseman is 6-foot-8 and 225 pounds and had nine goals and 25 points in 39 games for UNO this season. He announced he was leaving school after the Mavericks were eliminated from the WCHA playoffs.

Sustr represented his country at the 2010 World Junior Championship. He has skated at development camps with the Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers and the Lightning; he attended Tampa Bay's camp last summer.

NEW YORK -- Toronto Maple Leafs forward Joffrey Lupul has been suspended for two games, without pay, for an illegal check to the head of Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman during NHL Game No. 438 in Toronto on Wednesday, March 20, the National Hockey League's Department of Player Safety announced today.

The incident occurred at 0:45 of the third period. Lupul was assessed a two-minute minor for an illegal check to the head (Rule 48).

Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, and based on his average annual salary, Lupul will forfeit $45,945.94. The money goes to the Players' Emergency Assistance Fund.

For a full explanation of the Department of Player Safety's decision, complete with video, please click on the following link: http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?catid=60&id=225238.

The races are tight and several teams are looking for the exact same thing.

Welcome to the lead-up to the 2013 NHL Trade Deadline, where unpredictability rules as the majority of general managers still aren't sure how they will approach things, or even what their approach should be, with only 12 days left before the deadline at 3 p.m. ET on April 3.

NHL.com is here to offer you a trade deadline primer, a look at all 30 teams and what they potentially could do before the final buzzer sounds on this year's trading season.

Here is a peak into the 15 teams in the Western Conference, in alphabetical order:

Anaheim Ducks: No GM has been busier in the past few weeks than Bob Murray, but he was doling out big-money contracts to his own players to make sure he doesn't have to dangle them at the deadline. Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry signed long-term deals and Murray insists he will not have to trade Bobby Ryan to meet his budget. The Ducks now may be considered the favorite in the Western Conference with their recent win against the Chicago Blackhawks, but it's unclear what Murray will want to do at the deadline since his team is pretty well-stocked right now.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Carolina Hurricanes forward Jiri Tlusty has spent his six-year professional career split nearly evenly between Toronto and his current team. Given that the beginning of his NHL career was a constant shuttle between the Maple Leafs and the American Hockey League's Toronto Marlies, those early years are now disappearing from his view.

"I spent [parts of four] years there, and I'm such a different player," Tlusty said. "I've learned so many things from the roles that I've been playing over here."

The 13th pick in the 2006 NHL Draft, Tlusty always knew expectations were high. Equally adept at setting up a scoring chance and finishing one, he also was willing to do hard work deep in the offensive zone.

Every Thursday during the season, Justin Goldman, the Director of Goalie Scouting for McKeen's Hockey and founder of The Goalie Guild, will provide you with an in-depth analysis of fantasy goaltenders in NHL.com's weekly segment: "In the Cage." From updated goalie rankings to guys you should keep a close eye on and much more, Goldman will be your fantasy goalie expert all season long.

Jonathan Bernier

Goalie - LAK

RECORD: 7-2-0
GAA: 1.94 | SVP: 0.923

That includes this month's current stat line of 3-1-0 with a 2.33 GAA and .914 SV%, as well as one of the best games in his career, a 40-save gem in a 3-2 win over the Coyotes Tuesday night.

And since volume (games played, shots faced) is intimately tied to a goalie's fantasy value, when forced to sit behind one of the league's best goalies, every single start and save is that much more important.

TORONTO -- The size of goaltending equipment again was on the docket of the NHL's spring General Managers meeting.

Specifically, the GMs would like to see the size of leg pads used by goalies further regulated.

"It's a project for a goalie to get bigger and try to displace more room in the net," NHL senior executive vice president of hockey operations Colin Campbell said. "You talk to a goalie, they are working on it all the time. Goaltender coaches attack it. We have to make sure we don't expose goalies to injury in how their equipment is fitted. As you can tell, it's a frustrating project, but it is something that has affected the game in the past 10 years.

"[It] is the height of a pad and how it fits a goalie's leg. It's not a simple fix."

Specifically, the managers would like to see a reduction in the height of the goalie pad above the knee, as well as making knee pads more conforming and less bulky. There is a belief that these changes will open room between the legs and result in more opportunities for offense.

Just when Anders Lindback was playing some of his best hockey of the season, the Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender is out indefinitely with a right ankle sprain, according to reports.

Lindback has won three of his past five starts, not allowing more than two goals in any of them and posting a .941 save percentage over that span. He was injured Wednesday in a game he didn't even start -- Lindback relieved Mathieu Garon in the second period against the Toronto Maple Leafs and stopped seven of eight shots before leaving in the third after being hurt.

In his first season with Tampa Bay, the 24-year-old Lindback is 10-7-1 with a 2.88 goals-against average and .903 save percentage.

Sean Day, a 15-year-old defenseman with the Compuware Under-16 hockey team, was granted exceptional player status by Hockey Canada on Thursday.

The decision makes Day eligible for the 2013 Ontario Hockey League Draft; usually the draft is restricted to 16-year-olds.

The 6-foot-2, 194-pound blueliner has three goals and eight assists in 25 games this season with Compuware. Day was born in Belgium to Canadian parents, but currently lives in Rochester, Mich., and has played his minor hockey in the Detroit area, with the Little Caesars and Honeybaked programs before switching to Compuware this season.

"Sean Day should be very proud of himself in attaining exceptional player status," Ontario Hockey Federation executive director Phillip McKee said. "The evaluation process is very extensive and reviews all aspects of the player's life. We all look forward to seeing Sean continue his development as a player and person in the OHL next season."

WINNIPEG -- This prairie city of 750,000 knows a goal scorer when it sees one.

Bobby Hull put the Winnipeg Jets on the pro hockey map and on an instant path to credibility more than 40 years ago. Then Dale Hawerchuk powered the original Jets in the 1980s in their annual Smythe Division battle to keep pace with the Edmonton Oilers, and a 76-goal 1992-93 rookie season still affords Teemu Selanne rock-star status.

Now Jets left wing Evander Kane is motoring past some initial hurdles in a quest to become the next great sniper in Winnipeg hockey history. All members of the NHL's 500-goal club, Hull used his slap shot, Hawerchuk utilized hockey sense and Selanne's hands make him one of the NHL's all-time pure scorers.

Kane scores his goals in his own fashion, an approach that he brings to many areas of his life. The 21-year-old power forward possesses a combination of speed and sheer power that scouts foresaw when the Atlanta Thrashers made the Vancouver native the fourth pick in the 2009 NHL Draft. Kane possesses excellent speed and hands, and he is as apt to crash opposing nets as he is to unleash one of the NHL's most dangerous wrist shots.