Taylor Leier Position: Forward (Left Wing) Birthdate: February 15, 1994 (21) Acquired Via: 2014 NHL Draft – Round 4, Pick 117 2014-15 Team/League: Lehigh Valley Phantoms, AHL – 13 G, 18 A in 73 GP Nationality: Canadian (Saskatoon, SK) Size: 5’10”, 174 Contract Status: Signed on entry-level contract through 2017 Ranking in August 2014 25…
Poll 100 Flyers fans and ask them which out of the team’s “big five” of defensive prospects — Shayne Gostisbehere, Samuel Morin, Robert Hagg, Travis Sanheim, and Ivan Provorov — that they’re most excited about, and I’d guess that four out of those five names would largely dominate the conversation. And, on the surface, it’s…
When the Philadelphia Flyers selected Nicolas Aube-Kubel with the 48th pick in the 2014 NHL Draft, there was reason to be cautiously optimistic about the organization’s newest forward prospect. Despite minimal even strength and power play ice time in the QMJHL, Aube-Kubel still managed to post solid scoring numbers and flash high-end offensive instincts. Aube-Kubel…
Nick Cousins Position: Forward (Center) Birthdate: July 20, 1993 (22) Acquired Via: 2011 NHL Draft – Round 3, Pick 68 2014-15 Team/League: Lehigh Valley Phantoms, AHL – 22 G, 34 A in 64 GP Nationality: Canadian (Belleville, ON) Size: 5’10”, 169 Contract Status: Signed on entry-level contract through 2016 Ranking in August 2014 25 Under…
A little over a year ago, Travis Sanheim was barely on the radar of even the most knowledgeable Philadelphia Flyers fans. The team was expected to take a forward in the 2014 first round, and Sanheim was a defenseman still trying to carve out a spot for himself among the draft’s top prospects. What a…
At this time not even a year ago, Scott Laughton was, by most accounts, the Flyers‘ top prospect outside of the NHL, and there was simply no debating that he was the team’s best forward prospect. We had him sitting up at No. 3 in our 25 under 25 last summer, only behind two known…
In the long, frustrating year that was the 2014-15 hockey season, we had plenty of disappointments as Flyers fans. But in my eyes, one of the biggest disappointments — at least in terms of my interest in watching bad hockey — was the season-ending injury suffered by Phantoms defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere. Shayne Gostisbehere Position: Defenseman…
Yesterday, we took a look at the 35 forwards who started training camp with the Flyers, breaking down their odds of being on the NHL team when camp breaks in early October. Today, we’ll be doing the same for the 21 defensemen on the camp roster, giving a brief rundown of where they stand now…
The Lehigh Valley Phantoms will open their second season on Saturday, October 10 when they host the Syracuse Crunch at PPL Center in their 2015-16 opener. It’s also the 20th season in the history of the Phantoms franchise, which has called Philadelphia and Glens Falls, N.Y. home in the past. The American Hockey League released…
If Robert Hagg, whom Kurt profiled at No. 9 yesterday morning, happens to be the least heralded of the Flyers‘ high-end defensive prospects, then Samuel Morin’s got to be on the opposite end of that spectrum, at least from public perception. There’s a certain level of hype brought along with being the first upper-echelon defensive…