Bryan Berard to tryout with Flyers

From Kevin Allen of USA Today:

Meanwhile, Bryan Berard, unable to secure a contract from any NHL team, has agreed to attend the Philadelphia Flyers’ training camp on a tryout basis. Berard, whose career was derailed several years ago when he was blinded by an errant stick, played last season for the New York Islanders. But he has bounced around since making a comeback from the eye injury.

Read the entire entry from Mucking and Grinding here.

The Flyers already have Kimmo Timonen and Mike Richards to quarter back the first pp unit and they have Braydon Coburn to quarterback the second, so I am not really sure where Berard fits in, as he is strictly an offensive defenseman.