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Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 8: Yegor Zavragin
As we enter into the top 10 of this year’s Top 25 Under 25, we meet the highest ranked goalie on this year’s list, Yegor Zavragin. After being deemed surplus to requirements with SKA St. Petersburg, Zavragin was traded to Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the KHL offseason, and will once again find himself in a battle for a starting job at the highest level of Russian hockey. No. 8: Yegor Zavragin 2025-26 Primary League/Team: SKA St. Petersburg (KHL)/SKA-VMF St. Petersburg (VHL) 2025-26 Sta...
What sportsbooks think of the Flyers’ Metropolitan Division chances in 2026-27
Nobody rushed for the exits at Xfinity Mobile Arena on April 29. Cam York’s shot found a gap through traffic 2:28 into overtime in Game 6 against the Pittsburgh Penguins , and for a few minutes afterward, nobody in that building seemed to want the night to end. Five years. Five straight springs of watching someone else play meaningful hockey in April while the Flyers cleaned out their lockers early, while a fan base that used to define itself by playoff hockey learned to define itself by its a...
Wednesday Morning Fly By: It finally happened
*OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER! No, not that one. Or the other one you’re hoping for. It’s the Hunter McDonald contract; Danny Briere finally got it done. [ BSH ] *Signing the Phantoms defenseman was Danny B’s final bit of business to take care of this summer. Presumably, he made these calls from the cottage. [ Inquirer ] *Anyhoo, another Big Defensive Prospect, Spencer Gill, is eager to put the last couple of injury-riddled seasons behind him and begin his pro career on the ri...
How Rick Tocchet’s teams performed on the penalty kill in Year 2
The Flyers had a terrible power play, but not a great penalty kill. We take a look at what Tocchet-led teams have done in Tocchet's second year in comparison to his first year with Tampa, Arizona, and Vancouver.
Flyers finally sign Hunter McDonald to two-year contract
Out long national nightmare is over. We were all waiting with bated breath for just when the Philadelphia Flyers were going to re-sign all of their restricted free agents. We were pacing our respective living rooms. A trail has been deeply worn in all of our carpets and our family is concerned for us. We can’t stop fretting. Well, thank goodness we can finally get some peaceful sleep. The Flyers have signed defenseman Hunter McDonald to a two-year contract, as announced by the team on Tue...
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 9: Jack Berglund
It was a productive year for number nine on the Top 25, Jack Berglund. The big left-handed center is up six spots from his winter ranking in early 2026 (and 11 spots from last August), helped by a big showing on the international stage and scoring his first AHL goal towards the end of the season. We thought we might get to see more of him in North America in the 2026-27 year, but he’s just been loaned back to his Swedish Hockey League club , Färjestad BK. Berglund should have a lot of confiden...
Tuesday Morning Fly By: Count’s lost
*Dear reader, your illustrious author’s brain is fried and she has lost count of how many days are left. Please consult Bill Matz for the latest updates on this matter. Anyhoo, while we’re talking counts, we’ve reached the top-10 of this year’s 25 Under 25 and up first at the bottom is Jett Luchanko. A guy who never inspires too much debate, right? [ BSH ] *Have you been wondering how the National Media feels about the Flyers’ offseason? No? Me neither, but folks did the work of ...
Flyers prospect Spencer Gill eager to turn pro
As the next season looms — just one month until the official opening of training camp — inflection points present, big and small, for team and players alike up and down the Flyers’ organizational ladder. Some have more to be made of them than others, and one of the players set to make a less perhaps slightly less publicized pivot is Flyers defense prospect Spencer Gill. Gill, having just wrapped up his time playing in the QMJHL this past spring, is set to graduate up to the pros and...
Flyers Top 25 Under 25, No. 10: Jett Luchanko
As soon as the Philadelphia Flyers selected center Jett Luchanko with the 13th overall pick at the 2024 NHL Draft, it was a controversial decision. Instead of going with the online consensus of defenseman Zeev Buium or Finnish center Konsta Helenius, the Flyers went with the speedy, detailed center out of Guelph. Unfortunately, it’s not looking to hot but there is a world where his stock goes back up to some previous hype levels fairly soon. And now, he’s getting a slight demotion in our ...
Flyers’ Dan Vladar named one of the NHL’s best goaltenders
With a great first impression, a strong playoff run, and a new five-year extension in his back pocket, Flyers goaltender Dan Vladar is having a good 2026. And it seems the NHL Network has given the netminder some kudos in his direction, putting him eighth in the outlet’s Top 10 goaltenders at the present time. Vladar was praised for his consistency and stellar work, with him third in goals-against average overall (2.42) for goaltenders who played a minimum of 35 games. “It was a really im...
Monday Morning Fly By: Pattern, broken
*We’re just about to move into the much-esteemed top-10 of our Top 25 Under 25 ranking, but before we cross over into that, we’ll take a moment to check in with Jack Nesbitt, who’s claimed the 11th spot. [ BSH ] *We’re taking some of this summer downtime as an opportunity to take a bit of a deep dive, looking into how Rick Tocchet’s teams have historically fared in year two on the power play. Can we take anything from this? Let’s get into it. [ BSH ] *But anyway, back to the kids. Th...
How Rick Tocchet’s teams performed on the power play in Year 2
The Flyers enter their second year under head coach Rick Tocchet looking for power play solutions. We look back at what Tocchet-led teams did in year two compared to year one with the man advantage.
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 11: Jack Nesbitt
Just outside of the top-ten on our list is one of the younger players to make an appearance here: Jack Nesbitt. We saw quite the consternation around his selection just over one year ago. With three graduations ahead of him from our previous list, Nesbitt slid up three places from his number 14 placement in the winter edition, and is making the jump to the NCAA for the 2026-27 season. No. 14: Jack Nesbitt 2025-26 Primary League/Team: Windsor Spitfires (OHL) 2025-26 Statistics: 25G ...
2 trades the Flyers can make with the Wild next season
The Philadelphia Flyers are trying to be a team that regularly contends for the playoffs and once their young players grow into their primes, they can potentially challenge for the Stanley Cup. That’s the plan but right now, we’re still in the first of several steps to that goal. While in the infancy of this next stage, some trades could happen to potentially push them along — to provide a little jolt towards being taken a little more seriously. While we’ve already had a glance at a coupl...
Friday Morning Fly By: It’s 47 days now
*I spared you an Andrew MacDonald jumpscare this morning; you’re welcome. Anyhoo, it’s always fun to get the fam together to discuss some things, speculate and whatnot, so we had a little discussion about who we think will be the biggest surprise for the Flyers this season. [ BSH ] *Speaking of surprises, what I thought was a nepo baby selection — that of Cole Knuble — has turned into a potentially nice little pick for the Flyers way late in the 2023 draft. [ NBC Sports Philly ] ...
Roundtable: Who will be the Flyers’ biggest surprise next season?
The 2026-27 season is a big one for the Philadelphia Flyers. After making the playoffs for the first time in six years with one of the youngest rosters in the NHL, there are loads of questions that we are going to ask and not find out the answer to until all 84 games have been played. One of those questions just so happens to be which player might just pop out and surprise us all. It might not be a breakout season or anything, but who is the player that we’re all expecting to be just fine...
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 12: David Jiricek
It was a trying, arduous season for defenseman (and former sixth-overall pick) David Jiricek. The hope is with a new club and a fresh start the blueliner is capable of turning over a new leaf and being a young, impactful defender on Philadelphia’s back end. No. 12: David Jiricek 2025/26 Primary League/Team: Minnesota Wild (NHL), Lehigh Valley Phantoms (AHL) 2025/26 Statistics: 0 G, 0 A in 25 games (MIN), 2 G, 11 A in 13 GP (LHV) Age as of 9/15/2026: 22 Acquired Via: Trade with Minnes...
Bobby Clarke turns 77: The best and worst of the Flyers icon
On Aug. 13, 1949, Robert Earle Clarke was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba. He battled the odds, overcame diabetes, and became the face of the Philadelphia Flyers for the better part of the first half of the franchise’s roughly 60-year history. He’s also the only Flyers captain to lead the team to Stanley Cup, and leads the team in games (for now), assists, points, short-handed goals, and even plus/minus (+507). But for all of his greatness on the ice while playing for the club, there were also som...
Thursday Morning Fly By: HBD Mr. Clarke
*Today’s Bobby Clarke’s birthday. Did you know that? Happy birthday, Clarkie. Here’s hoping you’re in Florida playing golf or something. [ BSH ] *Anyway hey how about another complaint about how it’s mid-August and no one in the hockey universe is working, not even Charlie, and as such I have a dearth of links to present to you wonderful people? No? Well sorry, I’ve already kind of complained about it. Anyway we are 48 days out from the start of the season now, and up to lucky number 13 o...
“It’s all opportunity, right?”: Flyers prospect Carson Bjarnason refining outlook into second pro season
The 2025-26 season was a pretty major one for Flyers goaltending prospect Carson Bjarnason. Having wrapped up quite a successful junior career the previous spring, he set his sights on the professional game, looking to make a strong first impression in the next step forward in his playing career. And while Bjarnason stepped up in a big way for the Phantoms through the first half of the season, much of the second half saw things shift on him , and inconsistencies creeping in as he worked t...
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 13: Nikita Grebenkin
We’re at the point of the exercise where NHL regulars begin to appear, with the first being Nikita Grebenkin. After making his Flyers debut this past season, Grebenkin will look to build on his rookie campaign and become a true lineup mainstay. He showed enough in his first season to establish himself as an NHL-caliber player, but there are still questions about how much more his game can develop. No. 13: Nikita Grebenkin 2025-26 Primary League/Team: Philadelphia (NHL) 2025-26 Stati...
Wednesday Morning Fly By: We’re at 49 days to go
*Thanks to friend of the blog Bill Matz we are back to counting days accurately, because apparently that is hard. Anyway there’s been one single piece of news in the past many days, so let’s look a little deeper at what the Jack Berglund loan means for the Flyers as a whole. [ Flyers ] *While we’re digging deeper into things, we dug into what Rick Tocchet’s former teams have looked like in his second year as head coach, from an offensive perspective. The results will shock you (you will n...
Flyers reportedly interested in Alexander Romanov amid trade talks
This summer the Flyers have been tied to a number of different defensemen. The two topping the list were John Carlson and Darnell Nurse, both of which Philadelphia general manager Danny Briere was hoping to land in free agency. As well all know Carlson signed with Tampa Bay, while Nurse ended up with the Sharks. So Briere came up empty-handed. Also, the situation with Rasmus Ristolainen — in the final year of his contract and with no plans for Briere to re-sign him — has meant Philadelphia pos...
5 young players the Flyers could steal off waivers before next season
The beginning of the NHL season involves all 32 teams jumping through different hoops as they get ready for actual games to be played and for their roster to be finalized. First, it’s rookie camp to look at a bunch of prospects before they eventually go back to playing for their respective teams and strive to get better. Then, actual camp starts. Some young players will be involved but the roster is largely decided except a couple of positional battles that you could consider. Once the te...
How Rick Tocchet’s teams performed offensively in Year 2
Rick Tocchet's second year with different clubs hasn't resulted in offensive explosions. We take a look at how his teams have fared in year two, and how that information could influence the Flyers in 2026-27.
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