Flyers select Denver Barkey with 95th overall pick

The picks keep coming! The Flyers have closed out the third round, making their second pick of the round, and selecting Denver Barkey (great name), a center from the London Knights.

This pick is, in short, a fun one. Barkey is 5-foot-8 and brings a nice bit of scoring punch (to the tune of 22 goals and 59 points in 61 games). He’s a plus-skater, with good edgework and overall speed. He plays with good pace, too. He’s a tenacious player, a little bit of an aggitator. The broadcast, for whatever it’s worth, described him as “Travis Konecny-lite.” A number of scouts had him ranked higher than 95th, but we’ve seen a number of teams going after The Big Players earlier in this draft, so the size thing is almost certainly a reason – legitimate or not – for him sliding here.

This pick is a bit of a swing, but that’s what we like to see at this stage, and Barkey could well be an absolute steal for the Flyers at this point.