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The Philadelphia Flyers won't have Rodrigo Abols back for the upcoming NHL season.
The 30-year old, 6-foot-4 center has signed a contract with SC Bern in Switzerland that will be a three-year pact, according to a press release from that team.
Abols played 42 games for the Flyers in 2025-26.
He finished with three goals, seven assists, 24 blocked shots and 49 hits.
He fractured his right ankle soon after the calendar flipped to 2026, and that kept him out from January 17th onward.
This was just his second NHL season, having also suited up for 22 games (two goals, three assists) with the Flyers in the 2024-25 campaign.
Abols was originally a seventh-round pick by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2016 NHL Draft, but he never signed with them before becoming a free agent and signing an entry-level contract with the Florida Panthers in 2019.
Abols played in the AHL at Springfield and the ECHL at Greenville while under contract with the Panthers before going to play in Switzerland.
He returned to the Flyers on a contract after starring for Latvia at the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, and he split time between AHL Lehigh Valley and the NHL over the last two years.
Now, this could be the end of Abols' NHL journey.
It seems unlikely he'd leave at 30 years old after having a fringe role and then be able to make it back.
He did well for a seventh-round pick to work through the grind and get his chance, but that ankle injury in January really stopped Abols from getting his full footing in the NHL.
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