One of the bigger surprises of the Flyers’ offseason took place on the first night of the NHL Draft, when Ron Hextall used the team’s second pick to go a bit off the board and take center Jay O’Brien. The pick may have caught the casual viewer a bit off-guard, for one particular reason: while…
It’s officially August, which means it’s time for one of the highlights of our offseason here at Broad Street Hockey: the Philadelphia Flyers Top 25 Under 25 series. Now in its fifth year on the site, the 25 Under 25 has become our primary series in which we take long looks at the young talent…
It’s just about that time, folks. With just one article, we’re closing out our development camp talks, and shifting our focus to the future. That’s right, I said all in one article. And who serves as a better case to help us do this than our pal Pascal Laberge. He had a pretty solid development…
A part of an impressive 2014 Flyers’ draft class, Mark Friedman began his journey into professional hockey with his first full season and started to make a name for himself in the American Hockey League. Coming out of college Friedman was billed as a puck moving defenseman with a bit of a physical edge –…
Prospect talks can get kind of overwhelming sometimes. And understandably so—the Flyers have not just a ton of prospects, but a ton with the potential for very high to respectable upside. It’s a lot to keep track of. It’s easy to feel out of sorts. Who should I be paying the most attention to? There…
Shortly following the first round of the 2018 NHL Draft, Sportsnet’s Jeff Marek and Elliotte Friedman got together to record their 31 Thoughts podcast about what they had just seen unfold. At one point in the podcast, the conversation pivoted towards the Vancouver Canucks’ decision to draft Quinn Hughes at No. 7 over some of…
It’s easy to understand why a player like Danick Martel was overlooked in his draft class, as he’s a left winger under 5’9” who only put up 41 points in 68 games for the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada in the QMJHL back in the 2012-13 season. After being passed over again during the 2013-14 campaign (despite jumping…
It seems like we’ve been waiting on Samuel Morin forever, doesn’t it? Well, we’re going to have to wait a bit longer thanks to a torn ACL that will keep him out for the bulk of the 2018-19 season. Morin, who just turned 23 in July, injured the knee in the Phantoms’ five-overtime marathon playoff…
It’s happening, you guys! For the first time in this summer’s 25 Under 25, we get to talk about a brand new person! How cool is that! In a lot of ways, O’Brien is very new—if you’re not someone who was deep into the draft, you might have been caught like me, looking vaguely around…
The late rounds of the NHL draft have been pretty tough on the Flyers in recent years. Sure, that’s true of most teams to some extent; the vast majority of picks beyond the second or third round of the draft never really amount to anything meaningful (if anything at all) at the NHL level. But…