Selected by the Florida Panthers with the No. 10 pick in the 2017 NHL Draft, Tippett was traded to Philadelphia by Florida on March 19, 2022, along with a first-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft or 2025 NHL Draft and a third-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, for forward Claude Giroux. The Panthers also received forward prospects Connor Bunnaman and German Rubtsov and a fifth-round pick in the 2024 draft in the trade.
Tippett set NHL career-highs with 27 goals, 22 assists and 49 points in 77 games last season with the Flyers.
In five NHL seasons with the Panthers and Flyers, Tippett has 119 points (63 goals, 56 assists) in 238 regular-season games. He had four points (one goal, three assists) in six games in his only appearance in the Stanley Cup Playoffs with Florida in 2021.
