Much has been made of the depth of prospects the Flyers have put together defensively in the past few years. Shayne Gostisbehere has already taken the NHL by storm, and as many as five other young blueliners (Ivan Provorov, Travis Sanheim, Samuel Morin, Robert Hagg, and Phil Myers) who could reasonably be considered somewhere between…
When the Flyers traded down in the first round of the 2016 draft, passing up on the chance to get one of the draft’s two most coveted pure goal scorers in Kieffer Bellows and Julien Gauthier at No. 18 before watching both of them get taken and ultimately selecting German Rubtsov at the 22nd pick,…
Coming off a wildly successful final year in the WHL with the Calgary Hitmen – Fazleev was the team’s top scorer in the 2015-2016 season, scoring 71 points and was honored with the team’s Player of the Year award – Radel Fazleev jumps one spot to number 17 on our ranking, in the same year…
It’s been a long, long journey to where he is now for Pascal Laberge, the French-Canadian forward who was taken with the Flyers’ first of three second-round picks in this past June’s draft. The past few years have been trying for Laberge, who lost his stepmother to cancer while witnessing his father also struggle with…
The goalies we’ve discussed so far in our Flyers Top 25 Under 25 series are guys who came into the Flyers’ system with different kinds of entrances. Merrick Madsen, an honorable mention, was more or less an unknown who may have only been drafted by the team in the sixth round of the 2013 draft…
We’ve seen the Flyers’ prospect pool take huge steps forward in the last three to four years, and the gains they’ve made have come all across the board. After not developing any defensemen for more or less the entire history of the franchise, they’ve got a group of young blueliners as good as that of…
A saying you sometimes hear in discussion of prospects is that prospect development isn’t always linear. Which, in other words, means that there’s no one single path for a player to make his way from “prospect” to “NHL player”, and that some players take different leaps forward in their development at different times. Some make…
As we reach the midway point of our 25 Under 25 countdown, we start to see a shift in the type of player being profiled. Many of the ones we’ve looked at so far (certainly not all 12 of them, but a good number of them) are likely either players who don’t project to be…
Of the Flyers’ group of top defensive prospects — the “Big Four”-turned-“Big Five” featuring a number of talented defensemen taken between the 2012 and 2015 drafts — Robert Hagg was the first of the group to get significant experience in a pro league. He spent about half of his draft season and his entire first…
When Ron Hextall worked his magic earlier this year and sent Vincent Lecavalier and his albatross of a contract to the Los Angeles Kings, it seemed as though he may have made a real steal by getting Jordan Weal in return along with that draft pick. But after spending nearly the entire season in the…