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Maksim Sokolovskii is already showing off at Flyers Development Camp
It was the first day of Flyers Development Camp on Monday and it felt good again to see hockey being played again. Even though it’s been a shorter break than we’re used to, seeing actual skates on ice with pucks and sticks instead of thinking about hypothetical trades or reading the latest trade boards or listening to the latest trade rumors. Actual hockey, sort of. In the first instances of development camp, one prospect certainly stood out though: Maksim Sokolovskii. While not ever...
Report: Flyers qualify just 4 RFAs as 6 players head to free agency
The Philadelphia Flyers announced they’re extending qualifying offers to four players. Meanwhile there are six other players in the organization they haven’t. As a result, those six players will become unrestricted free agents. Although the team made the announcement prior to the 5 p.m. Eastern deadline, reports indicated the following players weren’t receiving qualifying offers : Karsen Dorwart, Christian Kyrou, Tucker Robertson, Brett Harrison, Artem Guryev, and Phil Tomasino. As a resu...
Which Flyers RFAs will get qualifying offers and which could leave?
The Philadelphia Flyers need to send a qualifying offer to all of their restricted free agents by 5:00 p.m. on Monday or else those players will then head into unrestricted free agency and be free to sign with whatever team they want. It’s essentially an NHL team checking a box saying “We want to keep you around, let’s continue our contract negotiations into the summer”. This year, the Flyers have a total of 10 restricted free agents they need to send these qualifying offers to, and not a...
Meet the 11 players invited to Flyers Development Camp
The Philadelphia Flyers are hosting their annual development camp this week. It’ll be the first instance where we get to see the newly drafted players on the ice wearing orange and black, seeing who pops and who could be more of a long-term project. We’ll also see some more established prospects like Porter Martone, Denver Barkey, and Alex Bump get to give some of their sage wisdom to the younger (albeit not by that much) players. But, what might be the third or fourth most fun thing at d...
5 players to watch at Flyers Development Camp
After a long and busy weekend of drafting, the Flyers are diving right into it this week, gather their prospects new and old for an equally busy week of action at Development Camp . The Flyers will have some of their exciting big name pieces still participating in this camp — guys like Porter Martone, Denver Barkey, and Alex Bump, who have some meaningful NHL experience under their belts, and who can still learn some things from this camp, to be sure, but who are also players we can reaso...
Monday Morning Fly By: The picks are in
*That’s another NHL Entry Draft in the books, and if nothing else, Danny Briere made sure people noticed what the Flyers were doing. The first move the Flyers made on Friday night was to trade back from 21 to 27 in order to pick up a couple more late round picks and to select, rather predictably, the largest 17 year old to ever live. [ BSH ] *Post first round, Briere explained what he was thinking when he did the thing everyone expected him to do. [ BSH ] *Here’s what the scouting co...
Leafs might have ruined a potential Rasmus Ristolainen trade
The Philadelphia Flyers have a hot commodity in defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen. According to multiple reports, several teams are giving general manager Danny Briere a ring to see what they need to give up to pry the big Finnish blueliner away from Philadelphia. Unfortunately for us and for the Flyers, those inquiring teams just got a whole lot of leverage. The Flyers’ reported asking price, ever since Ristolainen trade rumors started to percolate once again at the last trade deadline,...
Flyers announce 2026 Development Camp roster, schedule
It’s been a busy weekend around here with all of the draft happenings unfolding, and the Flyers won’t be slowing down anytime soon. With all of that business taken care of, the next phase is getting a look at some of these brand new prospects in action. The Flyers’ annual Development Camp will offer just that opportunity. As the Flyers announced on Sunday morning, this year’s camp is set to get underway in short order, opening up with the first of four days’ worth of on-ice sessions on Mo...
How experts graded the Flyers’ 2026 NHL Draft class
With six picks over the weekend at 2026 National Hockey League Draft, the Philadelphia Flyers didn’t wow too many people, but they didn’t seem to be the bottom dwellers when it came to drafting quality prospects. Here then is a handful of reactions from various outlets as to what was good about the Flyers drafting this year, and what wasn’t. ESPN The Flyers selected three defensemen, two goaltenders, and a center. And while ESPN said the team should be praised for being able to trade...
Everything Brent Flahr said about the Flyers’ 2026 NHL Draft class
Philadelphia Flyers assistant general manager Brent Flahr spoke with the media Saturday afternoon after the 2026 National Hockey League Draft wrapped up in Buffalo. Flahr said the plan the scouting staff had going into the draft seemed to fall apart early on when the prospects they had targeted began being scooped up. “Our draft board early on it was cleaned,” Flahr said regarding the two-day event . “We had a lot of teams calling trying to trade up to get our pick and it went radio silen...
Report: Darnell Nurse wants to be traded to the Flyers
It certainly feels like the Philadelphia Flyers are going to try to do something to change up their blue line — could that involve trading for Darnell Nurse from the Edmonton Oilers? Nurse does have a full no-movement clause so he’s going to dictate where he ends up getting traded to after his time in Edmonton has almost certainly come to an end. And according to recent reporting, the 31-year-old defenseman has handed a list of just a few teams to the Oilers that he would be open to movin...
Flyers select Max Laatikainen with 213th overall pick in 2026 NHL Draft
And that’s a wrap! The Flyers closed out their 2026 Draft with one final selection, grabbing one more defenseman in Max Laatikainen. 🔶 WELCOME TO PHILLY! 🔶 With the 213th overall pick in the 2026 #NHLDraft , we are proud to select defenseman Max Laatikainen. pic.twitter.com/297y60HtvV — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) June 27, 2026 This Finnish defendseman breaks, in a way, from the mold that the Flyers have set elsewhere in this draft class, as his profile is more that of a...
Roundtable: Would you trade Matvei Michkov for Zach Werenski?
The Philadelphia Flyers could get aggressive this summer and it could involve getting the best defenseman to hit the open market since, well, Quinn Hughes less than a year ago. Zach Werenski could be edging his way out of the Columbus Blue Jackets. The 29-year-old elite blueliner is fresh off of a Norris Trophy win and by all accounts, is sick and tired of spending his career on a team that is rarely (if ever) in the playoff conversation. While it is expected that the big players in the l...
Flyers select KJ Sauer with 136th overall pick in 2026 NHL Draft
The Flyers closed out their fifth round by selecting their first forward of this draft so far, picking up center KJ Sauer out of the Minnesota high school system. 🔶 WELCOME TO PHILLY! 🔶 With the 136th overall pick in the 2026 #NHLDraft , we are proud to select forward KJ Sauer. pic.twitter.com/RXVpZVbVEv — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) June 27, 2026 Sauer is a bit of a weird case, having missed much of this season with injury — and looking like he was still feeling some li...
Flyers just drafted the biggest Flyers fan ever
The first purpose of the NHL Draft is to get some young players in your organization and maybe get the next franchise cornerstone — or maybe get your giant 6-foot-8 defenseman that you hope is good enough to be a No. 4 — and improve the outlook of your team. The second purpose is having some good stories going on. With the 53rd overall pick, the Philadelphia Flyers selected right-handed defenseman Brek Liske from the WHL’s Everett Silvertips. On the surface, it looks like a very good pick...
Flyers select Marek Sklenička with 120th overall pick in 2026 NHL Draft
Don’t look now, folks, but it’s a run on goalies! After using their 62nd overall pick on Czech goaltender Martin Psohlavec, they took a bit of break until late in Round 4 and used their 120th overall pick to draft… another Czech goaltender. 🔶 WELCOME TO PHILLY! 🔶 With the 120th overall pick in the 2026 #NHLDraft , we are proud to select goaltender Marek Sklenička. pic.twitter.com/mJMmfxHyWo — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) June 27, 2026 And while Psohlavec presents as a bit...
Flyers select Martin Psohlavec with 62nd overall pick in 2026 NHL Draft
The Flyers closed out their second round with their second selection of the day, picking up goaltender Martin Psohlavec out of the Czech junior league. 🔶 WELCOME TO PHILLY! 🔶 With the 62nd overall pick in the 2026 #NHLDraft , we are proud to select goaltender Martin Psohlavec. pic.twitter.com/dcSZZ9QtWm — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) June 27, 2026 Their first goalie drafted since 2023, Psohlavec stands out, above all, for his size. Coming in at 6’5 (but still just 185 pou...
Flyers select Brek Liske with 53rd overall pick in 2026 NHL Draft
And we’re off! With their first pick of Day 2 of the draft, the 53rd overall pick, the Flyers have selected right-shooting defender Brek Liske out of Everett of the WHL. 🔶 WELCOME TO PHILLY! 🔶 With the 53rd overall pick in the 2026 #NHLDraft , we are proud to select Brek Liske. pic.twitter.com/3VTsGqun8p — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) June 27, 2026 Liske brings a nicely rounded game — he’s not terribly flashy in any one area, but he does a lot of things quite well. He’s s...
2026 NHL Draft, Rounds 2-7 open discussion thread
After a wild — but not wholly unexpected — unfolding of events through the first round, we’re right back at it again today for the final six rounds of the draft. The Flyers picked up a bit more ammunition for themselves last night, and that opens the door for things to get a little bit more interesting around here, and we’ll see soon what they end up getting up to. Start time: 11:00 a.m. How to watch: 📺: ESPN, ESPN+ Pregame reading The big headline from yesterday — no pun inte...
Danny Briere explains why Flyers drafted Maksim Sokolovskii
Although they moved down six slots and acquired two additional draft picks for Saturday, Philadelphia Flyers general manager Danny Briere says he thinks London Knights defenseman Maksim Sokolovskii will take some time to develop. But believes it will be well worth the wait. The Flyers selected Sokolovskii with the twenty-seventh overall pick, sliding down a half dozen slots after San Jose traded their first-round, second-round, and fourth-round selections. The blueliner is 6’7″ and 240 po...
Report: Flyers emerge as a potential Zach Werenski trade destination
In the middle of the first round of the 2026 NHL Draft, a little bit of a miniature bombshell was dropped by The Athletic’s Pierre LeBrun. The NHL insider has been all over the Zach Werenski story over there for the Columbus Blue Jackets and he just decided to put out a list of teams who are almost certainly going to call if the reigning Norris Trophy winner is available in a trade. While it is expected that the true Stanley Cup contenders who could certainly use a No. 1 defenseman like W...
What scouts are saying about the Flyers taking Maksim Sokolovskii at 27th overall
The Philadelphia Flyers picked a whole lot later than we are used to and they utilized this 27th overall pick — after a trade down from pick No. 21 with the San Jose Sharks — to select London Knights defenseman Maksim Sokolovskii. He’s a big boy as the 6-foot-7 blueliner was taken off the pile of young prospects and taken by the Flyers to add to their increasingly large pile of players whose main characteristic is that they have size. Sokolovskii is simply going for someone who is bigger ...
Flyers trade back, select Maksim Sokolovskii with the 27th overall pick
With the 21st pick of the 2026 NHL draft, the Philadelphia Flyers have selected … Nobody. After some speculation that the Flyers could trade back a few spots in order to accrue some more picks later on in the draft, they ended up doing just that, sending their 21st overall selection to the San Jose Sharks for the 27th overall selection, the 62nd overall selection, and the 120th overall selection. With the resulting 27th overall pick, the Flyers would then select Maksim Sokolovs...
2026 NHL Draft, Round 1 open discussion thread
It’s Draft Day at last! We’ll be getting rolling in a little while here, but before we do, here’s a rundown on everything you need to know, heading into the first round. Start time: 7:00 p.m. How to watch: 📺: ESPN, ESPN+ Pregame reading Need to brush up on the details of some of these soon to be drafted players? Check out our Community Draft Board hub, with our final reader voted ranking and links to every profile we’ve written up, to date It’s still a big mystery what th...
Flyers linked to smooth-skating defender Tommy Bleyl on Draft Day
Draft Day is upon us, and like every year, there’s a host of mocks and rumors floating around that are trying to decipher who the Flyers are going to be taking with their first round pick. The Athletic’s Kevin Kurz noted in a brief draft day report that The Athletic’s Corey Pronman has heard rumblings that the Flyers have been linked with Moncton defenseman Tommy Bleyl, especially if they are to make a trade that drops them closer to the end of the first round. The 6-foot, 170-...
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