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The Flyers’ pursuit of John Carlson just got more complicated
It’s becoming the worst kept secret that the Philadelphia Flyers are eyeing up free agent defenseman John Carlson. Unfortunately, there’s a new potential hiccup into them landing the offensive blueliner. With July 1 fast approaching, the rumor mill is churning and media around the NHL are starting to connect some dots of players to teams that just make sense. While general manager Danny Briere can’t quite yet say outright which players he is interested in acquiring via free agency, there ...
Who mock drafts have the Flyers taking at 21st overall one week before the NHL Draft
The 2026 NHL Draft is a week away, and the Philadelphia Flyers have one first-round pick to use on Friday night. While there is a chance they make a first-round trade for the third straight year, what we know right now is that Danny Briere & Co. own the 21st overall selection in the upcoming draft. It’s tougher to get a top-of-the-lineup player later in the first round, but teams can still find impact players. The Flyers have done that a few times themselves with the likes of Claude Girou...
5 overage prospects the Flyers could target in the 2026 NHL Draft
Each player making it to the National Hockey League has their own road to get there. Most of the time it’s the junior ranks or NCAA, but others sometimes take a bit longer to develop. As a result, when they are of draft age, they might not be selected, and have the chance to re-enter the draft the following year. It might be complicated to explain, but essentially it boils down to this: if your are born anywhere from Jan. 1 to Sept. 15 of the calendar year, you have a three-year window to be d...
2026 BSH Community Draft Board, No. 27: Marcus Nordmark is an inconsistent high-skilled forward
We’re up to No. 27 on our Draft Board, and the honor goes to Swedish forward Marcus Nordmark. With Djurgardens IF’s J20 Nationell team this past season, Nordmark put up impressive scoring numbers with 38 points in 25 games. When he got a taste of the SHL with Djurgardens, Nordmark put up 1 point in 8 games, but did not look entirely out of place. The puck skills with Nordmark jump off the screen, and he’s a pretty tantalizing package of creativity and dynamic offense that can flip a...
Friday Morning Fly By: One week to go
*The offseason rumor mill keeps on turning, and today we’re shifting our focus to the unfolding Auston Matthews saga up in Toronto, because it would seem that the Flyers are doing the same. [ BSH ] *And, of course, we’re still working to unpack the Flyers’ reported linking to Darnell Nurse. [ PHLY ] *The biggest topic of conversation, though, is the upcoming draft, and there’s still a whole lot left to dig into before we kick things off next week. And at the top of the list would be ...
Report: Flyers monitoring Auston Matthews amid uncertainty with the Leafs
The Philadelphia Flyers are on the hunt. General manager Danny Briere is crouching down in the bushes and ready to pounce on whatever first-line center becomes available for this team to take a major step. And now they’re in the stages of just waiting to see who comes up next. As we all know, the Flyers are missing that massive piece down the middle. They have very good wingers in Travis Konecny and Tyson Foerster and Owen Tippett, and then up-and-coming stars like Porter Martone and Matv...
BSH 2026 Community Draft Board, No. 26: Nikita Klepov is an offensive force
Up next on the BSH Community Draft Board is Nikita Klepov. One of the highest-scoring players in this year’s draft class, Klepov is coming off a season that saw him lead the OHL with 97 points in 67 games. The Michigan State commit has climbed draft boards over the last year and is now widely projected to hear his name called somewhere in the middle of the first round. While opinions vary on exactly where he belongs on draft boards, there’s little debate that he’s one of the more accompli...
How Simon Benoit’s addition affects Flyers’ defense lineup
The Flyers made a big shift to their roster, they announced yesterday , with the move to ship out backup goaltender Sam Ersson and depth defenseman Emil Andrae (along with a third round pick) to Toronto in exchange for Joseph Woll and Simon Benoit. And while the shift in the goaltending situation — the extra stability that Woll can provide them over what Ersson has been able to provide, of late — is certainly the biggest boost and takeaway from this move, but the broader shakeup of the defense...
Thursday Morning Fly By: Draft’s picking up
*We are now just eight calendar days from the NHL Entry Draft so barring anymore spice from Danny Briere, that’s probably all anyone will be talking about. Not us, of course. We’ll also be talking about other stuff, like which teams we think would be most likely to make a trade for Rasmus Ristolainen. [ BSH ] *Speaking of that GMDB spice, Tuesday’s trade has potentially set the Flyers up to have one of the best goalie tandems in the league. Which, considering where they were two years ago...
How Danny Briere turned a Flyers weakness into a major strength
It wasn’t even a year ago, and the Philadelphia Flyers were looking at a goaltending issue that was a major problem at the time, and moving forward. At his year-end interview in the spring of 2025, Flyers general manager Danny Briere acknowledged the goaltending issue was something that couldn’t continue. He had discussions with the trio of keepers — Sam Ersson, Ivan Fedotov, and Aleksei Kolosov — at season’s end that they needed to be better. Much better. Historically, for a team that ha...
5 teams that could trade for Rasmus Ristolainen this offseason
After the Philadelphia Flyers made the first trade of the NHL offseason on Tuesday, acquiring goaltender Joseph Woll and defenseman Simon Benoit from the Toronto Maple Leafs, there is an innate feeling that suddenly a wave of moves are going to be made between now and the 2026 NHL Draft. So, why not think about some potential fits for arguably the likeliest member of the Flyers to be traded? Rasmus Ristolainen is not guaranteed to be traded before next season. With one year left on his co...
5 potential steals the Flyers could land at 53rd overall
The 2026 NHL Draft is just around the corner now that the Stanley Cup has been handed out. We can all start thinking about which prospects we want the Philadelphia Flyers to take and how upset we might get if they don’t select one of our favorite teenagers. But who are those prospects we would love for our Flyers to grab and be the envy of all 31 other fan bases in a couple years? Who are some draft-eligible players that people will be questioning why they weren’t taken dozens of spots hi...
2026 BSH Community Draft Board, No. 25: Mathis Preston is the home-run swing
It’s extremely cliche at point, but it makes sense to sort of slot each prospect for the upcoming NHL Draft into little archetypes and how team and public scouts view the player and what his potential could be. Little tiny buckets — whether it’s a big, slow defenseman, the surprisingly mobile big defenseman, the tiny offensive winger, the dog-on-a-bone winger who is also small, the super defensive European center that is projectable — that you can just try and plop down each player into and wh...
Wednesday Morning Fly By: Oh hey the fun began
*Well, didn’t take long for Danny Briere to kick off his Summer Plans! Yesterday we learned that the Flyers made their first move of the offseason and it is looking like a win for our boys. [ BSH ] *So let’s meet our new guys! We’ve got a pianist and a coffee connoisseur; exactly what you’d expect from a couple of NHL hockey players. [ Inquirer ] *Of course when there’s a trade, there’s gotta be a Trade Grade. So let’s see how The Experts think the Flyers fared with this one. [ The A...
Backup goalies are the new wave, and the Flyers are buying in
In Philadelphia, finding a quality starting goaltender has been a tall task across several iterations of the front office. The Flyers think they have their answer in Dan Vladar. After making 61 starts between the regular season and playoffs, Vladar appears to be on the verge of extending his contract to spend seven total seasons between the pipes in Philadelphia. With injuries, wear and tear, and other variables, it’s fair to question how sustainable that level of play will be for Vladar. To w...
BSH 2026 Community Draft Board, No. 24: Jack Hextall is one of the smartest centers in the class
Moving forward on the Draft Board, we’ve arrived at Jack Hextall, a name that’s very familiar to the Flyers organization. If you’re thinking about former Flyers goaltender and much maligned general manager Ron Hextall, well he’s Jack Hextall’s Dad’s cousin. It’s a distant relation, but it’s a relation nonetheless. If the Flyers were to select Hextall at No. 21, there would be quite the discourse about the Flyers selecting another Hextall. That might be a bit unfair to Jac...
Report: Flyers drawing trade interest from 3 teams for Owen Tippett
Oh look, Owen Tippett is getting a whole lot of attention from other NHL teams as they try to pry the talented winger from the Philadelphia Flyers before next season. It has been no secret that the Flyers could use Tippett in a substantial deal to address one of their major positional needs — a top-six center or a top-four defenseman — but it does not seem like the Flyers are too eager to move him out just because teams are calling. And who just are those teams? We got some new names intr...
Danny Briere reluctant to trade Flyers’ first-round pick ahead of 2026 NHL Draft
The Philadelphia Flyers enter the 2026 NHL Draft next week in Buffalo with four picks in total. They did have five on Monday. Does that change any of their strategy? Flyers general manager Danny Briere and assistant general manager Brent Flahr spoke with the media on Tuesday afternoon. The trade Tuesday between Toronto and Philadelphia saw the Flyers acquire defenseman Simon Benoit and goalie Joseph Woll in exchange for Sam Ersson, Emil Andrae and a third-round pick in this upcoming draft...
Flyers acquire Joseph Woll and Simon Benoit in trade with the Maple Leafs
The Philadelphia Flyers have made the first substantial trade of the NHL offseason and they have got their perfect tandem partner for Dan Vladar, and physical defenseman. Announced by the team on Tuesday morning, the Flyers have acquired goaltender Joseph Woll and defenseman Simon Benoit from the Toronto Maple Leafs. In exchange, the Flyers sent goalie Sam Ersson, defenseman Emil Andrae, and a 2026 third-round pick up to Toronto. BREAKING: We have acquired goaltender Joseph Woll an...
Which 2026 NHL Draft prospects remind experts of Flyers players?
Every year, the extensive scouting team at Elite Prospects releases their annual draft guide . It’s a massive collection of a year’s worth of scouting reports, stat tracking, and projections about what a draft-eligible player could be in the NHL. It’s an impressive body of work that is a must-read for anyone who wants to know about any player in the draft. For each player rated with a first or a second round grade, Elite Prospects offers an NHL-level comparable for the prospect. In ...
Tuesday Morning Fly By: Now the real fun begins
*Now the the last game of the NHL season was one whole entire day ago, it is safe to say that the offseason has officially begun. Which means Things are going to start happening, and one of the first things that happens each offseason is the buyout window opening. In case you didn’t know, 48 hours after the last game finishes, the window opens. Here’s a few guys the Flyers could buyout, if they really wanted to. [ BSH ] *One of the things that is cool about the Carolina Hurricanes winning...
5 defensemen who could be perfect fits for the Flyers at 21st overall
The Philadelphia Flyers have lately been targeting centers with their first-round picks. General manager Danny Briere even said recently that center is still a position of need for them in their organization, so they might just do the same thing for the 2026 NHL Draft. But, what if they decide to go with the other positional need? Sure, the current NHL roster has three very capable top-four defensemen and the pipeline has some interesting names like Oliver Bonk, David Jiricek, and someone...
Could these 3 Flyers be buyout candidates this summer?
The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Vegas Golden Knights Sunday night, winning their second Stanley Cup in franchise history and giving former Flyers Sean Walker, Shayne Gostisbehere, and Nic Deslauriers their first Stanley Cup rings. The season is officially over, but the offseason is on the cusp of starting. The first buyout window for contracts begins on Tuesday evening, 48 hours after the final game of the playoffs. That buyout window will start Tuesday night and carry on for two wee...
3 lessons the Flyers can’t afford to ignore from the Stanley Cup champion Hurricanes
The 2025-26 NHL season is over, and the Carolina Hurricanes have been named Stanley Cup Champions. We’re a little biased of course, but we are certainly happy with the result. And there are lessons to learn from their journey. As we all know, the NHL is a little bit of a copycat league. It might be cliche at this point, but after the Florida Panthers just went back-to-back, we saw teams try to get some more physicality in their lineup (as they learned the wrong lessons from that incredibl...
BSH 2026 Community Draft Board, No. 23: Maddox Dagenais could be a steal
Despite very little fanfare heading into his second QMJHL season, Maddox Dagenais has taken the all important draft year jump, and cemented himself in the conversation as a top-20 pick in this year’s draft. Dagenais probably profiles as more of a winger rather than a centerman, but he has the size and full-ice impact to play up the middle if necessary. His breakout year with the Quebec Remparts had scouts perking up throughout the season, and if he can continue on this developmental...
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