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What Cale Makar’s record contract means for the Flyers
Colorado Avalanche star Cale Makar secured his future (and more) with a monumental eight-year, $163.2-million contract last week. It will make him the highest-paid player in the entire NHL when the contract kicks in next year, and it has undoubtedly changed the financial landscape for players across the league. So, what does it mean for the Philadelphia Flyers? We’ve already seen a whole lot of the contractual environment in the NHL change this summer. Whether it was the $18-million AAV o...
Wednesday Morning Fly By: Guess who’s back
*Just as we predicted (by which we mean, heard Cuz say on Charlie and Bill’s podcast), Matvei Michkov is back in the Philadelphia metro region and is already getting work in with his teammates. We love to see it, genuinely. [ BSH ] *Speaking of things that are good and awesome, our boy Porty Marts is turning into the odds-on favorite for the Calder Trophy this season. How freaking awesome would that be?? [ BSH ] *The full ranking, the one that contains Porter Martone in the top spot,...
Predicting the Flyers’ opening night lineup way too early
The calendar has flipped to September and for the first time in nearly 20 years, there will be regular season NHL games played this month. The Philadelphia Flyers open Rookie Camp next Friday, with Training Camp shortly thereafter. They’ll open their preseason slate on Sept. 21 ahead of the season opener on Sept. 30 against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Flyers are in an interesting position, roster-wise at least. In prior years, you could perhaps look at the roster and know where a ha...
Matvei Michkov is back and already training with his Flyers teammates
Everyone can relax now: Matvei Michkov is back in Philadelphia. After PHLY’s Anthony Gargano reported on Monday that the Flyers forward would be back in Philadelphia that night, Michkov and the team confirmed it with photographic evidence on Tuesday afternoon. The boys are back in town. 📍 pic.twitter.com/SWW87oG2lC — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) September 1, 2026 Michkov is back on the ice in Voorhees with a bunch of his teammates. The Flyers also shared pictures of Da...
Everyone expects Porter Martone to win the Calder Trophy
The season hasn’t even started, but it appears that the first impression Philadelphia Flyer winger Porter Martone made on a lot of people hasn’t diminished over the summer. In fact, it might have even grown. Martone is one of the odds-on favorites to win the Calder Trophy, otherwise known as the rookie of the year award. And it’s the general consensus among those willing to put money down on it, and those pundits who have no vested interest in putting their money where their mouths are. A...
3 nightmare scenarios that could derail the Flyers’ season
Heading into a new Philadelphia Flyers season we tend to lean into the optimism. No games have been played yet so we can imagine anything. Training camp hasn’t even started yet so we can imagine a young up-and-coming player grabbing an opportunity with both hands and winning over the coaching staff, so that we have something even more new and more exciting on the roster. Anything is possible. We’ll cover a whole lot of that in the coming weeks, but let’s dive down into the muck of negativ...
Tuesday Morning Fly By: It’s coming home
*The “it” referred to in today’s headline is Matvei Michkov. “Home” is Philadelphia. He will be coming back here. Our long national nightmare is over etc. [ BSH ] *Also got some insight into Michkov’s summer training, and various and sundry other Hot Topics in the mailbag over at The New York Times. [ The Athletic ] *”Whither Matvei Michkov?” isn’t the only question one could ask of the Flyers right now. There are a few pretty important ones the team is going to have to answer as the...
Flyers prospect Jack Berglund is learning through the long road
This season has been, if nothing else, a busy one for Flyers center prospect Jack Berglund. The last calendar year has seen him play at the SHL and U20 levels in Sweden, working hard to carve out a role for himself with his top team, take a spin through the North American game with the Phantoms in the spring, and take detours to represent his country on the national stage at both the World Juniors and World Championships. It’s been a long road, and a somewhat challenging one at times, but...
We finally know when Matvei Michkov will return to Philadelphia
Philadelphia Flyers fans all around the world have been waiting with bated breath. Pacing around their room, carving two-footed tracks into their floors until they hear of the return of Matvei Michkov to the Philadelphia area. Everyone has been hollering about it in whichever way they can. Every single Instagram post or story from Michkov where he is clearly not in Philadelphia has been a dagger through the heart of people who just want him stateside. Every single day, a hellish experienc...
Phantoms Expectations: Ty Murchison rebounds from injury
The Phantoms are heading into this season in need of making some changes to stabilize their defensive game, and while it’s going to take a number of things going right for them to take those necessary steps forward, one hope in all of that is that the return of defenseman Ty Murchison –who put together quite the impressive first stint with the team last year — from injury can help pull things in the right direction for them. How did his 2025-26 season go? Heading into last season, Mu...
3 important Flyers lineup questions ahead of 2026-27 season
The Philadelphia Flyers are entering a pivotal season in their rebuild. After unexpectedly making the playoffs — and winning a round — last year, the team is largely relying on internal improvements to keep the train chugging along this season. While Danny Briere did make a few key moves to raise the Flyers’ floor , it’s going to be on the players who tasted playoff hockey last year to get Philadelphia back there again and raise the ceiling. But how will the lineup look? If you ...
Monday Morning Fly By: Out with the old
*We are just about to turn the calendar page to September, and it sure feels like things are beginning to ramp up already. We’re still a little ways away from things kicking off for the Flyers, but one of their most intriguing prospects in Maksim Sokolovskii is already kind of popping off in the OHL preseason, which is fun. [ BSH ] *Speaking of prospects and the rest of the young core, Danny Briere doesn’t seem to think they’re all the way where they need to be just yet. [ BSH ] *He ...
Danny Briere explains why the Flyers never did a full teardown rebuild
The most divisive thing within the Philadelphia Flyers fan base is whether or not this current rebuilding plan is going to work. Instead of going with the typical rebuild in the NHL, where a team trades just about everything valuable on their team or any player over the age of 25, to then absolutely suck for at least three or four seasons, draft very high to get elite prospects and then build their new team around that, the Flyers did something much more unorthodox. The Flyers decided to ...
Danny Briere has one major concern about the Flyers’ young core
The Philadelphia Flyers are heading into the 2026-27 NHL season as one of the league’s youngest teams and are coming off their first playoff appearance in six years. That is, of course, the Flyers’ entire situation boiled down to its most concentrated form and looking at that anyone would be highly anticipating what this team is going to look like for the next several months. Porter Martone, Matvei Michkov, Denver Barkey, and Alex Bump is the group that is going to be at the front of ever...
3 Flyers who could move up the lineup next season
The Flyers will most likely bring a bevy of players with them to training camp. Some of them will be there for a few days, getting a taste of what a NHL training camp runs like, and enjoy the experience before heading back to junior, or Lehigh Valley. Others will survive the first few cuts and be on the bubble to surprise the organization. And then there are those who are guaranteed to be on the club barring a calamity or some season-ending injury. There are a handful of players currently...
Phantoms Expectations: Riley Thompson finds his role
The Phantoms have seen their fair amount of roster turnover as they head into this next season, and while this certainly gives the mix an air of mystery, it also opens the door for some newcomers to step in and take hold of one of the more major roles, still sitting vacant. Forward Riley Thompson, brought in as a college free agent at the end of last season, got his first taste of AHL action during the team’s stretch run last spring, and though there were some real positives shown in that...
Maksim Sokolovskii starts his pivotal season with a bang
Maksim Sokolovskii is already showing off and proving some doubters wrong. When the Philadelphia Flyers selected the 6-foot-8 defenseman out of the London Knights at 27th overall a couple months ago, eyes were rolling from all over the fan base. It appeared that the Flyers just went back to their well of getting the biggest guy in the draft class to try and make the next Chris Pronger or just get all mean and physical again instead of trying to get a better team to win more hockey games. ...
The Flyers took key steps to raise their floor this offseason
It ended up being a lackluster offseason for the Philadelphia Flyers, all things considered. The Leo Carlsson offer sheet ended up being a swing and a miss by Danny Briere and the Flyers, and while perhaps fans can take some joy in forcing the Anaheim Ducks into a bind, that ultimately does nothing for the hockey team playing in Philadelphia. After getting Matvei Michkov to North America earlier than expected in 2024, and landing Trevor Zegras in a trade last offseason — along with s...
These 4 Phantoms could be the Flyers’ first call-ups
If some NHL team out there during a season didn’t have to do any roster management and their front office basically just kicked back and put their feet up as all 23 players on their roster remained healthy and were good enough to never be questioned, that would be pretty cool. Unfortunately, players get hurt and players also suck so bad that they need to be replaced. For the Philadelphia Flyers, some of their success last year can be attributed to staying relatively healthy. Tyson Foerste...
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 1: Porter Martone
We have a new Flyer on top of the Under 25 hill. After two consecutive seasons seeing winger Matvei Michkov as the cream of the crop, Porter Martone is now Philadelphia’s top prospect under 25 years old. Martone had a whirlwind 2025-26, but finished it off in a way you couldn’t even write a script for. We take a look at what made Martone so darn impressive, and what has us salivating over what’s on the horizon in his first full rookie year. No. 1: Porter Martone 2025-26 Primary Leagu...
Are the Flyers the NHL’s best team without a true superstar?
The Philadelphia Flyers returned to the playoffs for the first time in six years last season without a true star skater. Before we get into things, the definition of a “star player” isn’t black and white. It really is a subjective thing. However, we can take an objective look at a subjective list of rankings. Over the course of August, NHL Network put out its rankings of the top 20 players at each skater position — center , winger , and defenseman — along with the top 10 goalies. The...
Ranking every Flyers move from the 2026 offseason
With training camp getting closer, and the season opener a little over one month away, it’s probably a good time to take stock regarding what Philadelphia Flyers general manager Danny Briere did (and did not do in one circumstance) regarding the roster. There were a few things that were essentially filling up some cupboards in terms of their American Hockey League affiliate in Lehigh Valley. But in other instances, Briere managed to get a lot of business done at a time when some other teams ar...
Friday Morning Fly By: September is nigh
*Welcome to last weekend of August, fam. Meaning September is mere days away. And what happens in September? Hockey, baby! That’s what! Anyhoo, what better on a Friday morning than to go through every single Flyers prospect and think about where they’re going to play this season. That seems fun, no? [ BSH ] *Speaking of what’s going to happen this season, here’s a list of some guys who the Flyers are really going to need to step it up after someone lackluster results in 2025-26. [ Inquire...
Where every Flyers prospect is expected to play next season
The Philadelphia Flyers are no doubt going to have an interesting 2026-27 season. They could make the playoffs and build off of their overperformance last season, or take a slight step back as more and more young players take larger roles and we look towards the future. Part of looking to that future is getting a good look on some key prospects, but where are these prospects going to be playing next season? In some act of organization, we’ve decided to compile a list of every single ...
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 2: Matvei Michkov
It’ll be an interesting, quasi-make-or-break season for the Russian winger after a 2025-26 that didn’t live up to some expectations. Matvei Michkov is entering his third season in the National Hockey League. And it might just be the most important of his young, blossoming career. After a 2025-26 campaign that got off on the wrong foot, and concluded with consecutive healthy scratches in the playoffs, it’s imperative that Michkov wipes the slate clean and gets going in the right direction ...
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