Trail on the Isle is right around the corner, y’all. Or, a.k.a the best Flyers Twitter typo ever – Sh*t the Beach. Since we’ve been discussing prospects we are excited for, let’s do a throwback to last season’s Development Camp. Morgan Frost, Issac Ratcliffe, and Carter Hart’s future has fans excited for what’s to come…
And we’ve moved right along to one of the flashier prospects on our list! It’s Cole Caufield! He’s coming off a historic season in the USDP, and also a historic tournament at the IIHF U18 tournament, indeed, he seems to be smashing scoring records at just about every opportunity BSH 2019 Draft Profile: Cole Caufield…
This morning, the Flyers announced that they have traded for veteran blue-liner Matt Niskanen in a one-for-one swap with the Washington Capitals that sees Radko Gudas head to the nation’s capital. BREAKING: The #Flyers have acquired defenseman Matt Niskanen from the Capitals in exchange for defenseman Radko Gudas. — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) June 14, 2019…
It’s starting to feel like everyone in this draft is coming from the same team, and Matthew Boldy is yet another highly regarded prospect from the US National U18 Team. He is heading into the draft this summer and just like his teammates, Trevor Zegras, Jack Hughes, and Cole Caufield, Boldy is expected to be…
Next up, we take a trip over to the Western Hockey League to have a look at Dylan Cozens. He’s coming off of a pretty remarkable season with the Lethbridge Hurricanes, which saw him finish the regular season tied for 10th in points in the whole of the WHL. He’s one of our more exciting…
We’ll get right to the point on this one: it was a season full of weirdness and inconsistency on the Flyers’ blue line, but Radko Gudas proved to be an exception to this. Indeed, he was one of their most consistent defensemen, if not the most consistent, full stop. He wasn’t always their flashiest player…
With the promotion of Philippe Myers late this past season, the Philadelphia Flyers’ defensive prospect pool has taken a significant hit. With essentially all of the Flyers’ best defense prospects already in the NHL, the need for defense has intensified. The man that could fill that need is the Swedish born defenseman Philip Broberg. He…
Three days ago Chuck Fletcher made another move, this time in an attempt to bolster the Flyers’ defensive corps. In the one-for-one deal, he sent Radko Gudas to Washington and recieved Matt Niskanen in return. The Flyers are also retaining 30% of Gudas’s salary, which results in a $1,005,000 cap hit for one season. By…
June 15 is the first day on the hockey calendar on which teams can put in motion plans to buy a player out of his existing contract, and Chuck Fletcher decided that he was going to waste as little time as possible to do just that with the Flyers’ clear most obvious buyout candidate. Per…
In the modern NHL, the requisite skills that are most coveted by teams are now speed, puck control and the ability to transition quickly from the defensive zone to the offensive zone. I don’t know that anyone in the 2019 NHL draft does that better from the back end than Bowen Byram. When you add…