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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 ...
Thursday Morning Fly By: Going national
*We’re reaching the very upper echelon of our Top 25 Under 25 ranking! We’ve hit the top-3, and Tyson Foerster is ushering us in. [ BSH ] *Speaking of youngsters, Yegor Zavragin is popping over in the KHL preseason. [ BSH ] *On the topic, though, of no longer so young Flyers, Travis Konecny is still pretty good! But how do the Flyers manage him to keep getting the very best out of him? [ PHLY ] *In other news, the Flyers are going to be on national tv a whole lot this season. Ho...
The Flyers have officially become nationally relevant again
There isn’t much going on in the hockey world in August, but Flyers fans got good and bad news on Wednesday afternoon — and it’s the same piece of news. The NHL released its national broadcast schedule for the 2026-27 season on Wednesday, with the Philadelphia Flyers being one of the teams featured the most. The Flyers will be featured on the national stage a total of 19 times, 11 of which are home games and eight on the road. This is an increase of five games from their 14 national ...
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 3: Tyson Foerster
To be consistently in the top-five of these rankings until aging off the ballot means that Tyson Foerster is expected to be one of the key pieces of this new core in Philadelphia. Danny Briere seems to think so, as Foerster signed a 56.8 million dollar contract with the maximum term allowed on the day he was eligible for the extension less than eight weeks ago. It’s a risk for a player who has just two healthy seasons in the league thus far, but the talent is worth betting on, and the best is ...
Yegor Zavragin is off to a great start in a crucial season
The Philadelphia Flyers season has not started yet. We’re still dozens of days away from rookie camp starting, and then a handful of days more until we actually get to watch NHL players on the ice at training camp to truly get a sense that the season is about to start. But, for one key Flyers prospect, he’s already getting in some games and looking pretty darn good. Yegor Zavragin is a name that has become more and more popular among Flyers fans ever since he was drafted in the third roun...
The Dolly Parton song that best describes each Flyer
The news hit a lot of people hard Tuesday afternoon. Country music legend Dolly Parton passed away. She was 80. Few if any had anything bad to say about the icon, from her rich discography, charity work, and downhome nature that could even warm the hearts of curmudgeons everywhere. There is no direct link between the Flyers and Dolly Parton aside from the fact her 1984 film Rhinestone was directed by Bob Clarke. No, not that Bob Clarke, another guy named Bob Clarke. On a personal note, th...
Wednesday Morning Fly By: Yawn and stretch and try to come to life
*The Flyers’ coaching staff sat down with Jason Myrtetus the other day to talk about all kinds of things, but naturally, there was a lot of talk about the power play. How to improve it, specifically. Because it stinks. Smells bad. Real bad. Anyway they seem to be pinning a lot of hopes on Porter Martone to do this. [ BSH ] *Another guy who might need to come up big to help fix the power play is up at number four on our 25 Under 25: Dry Guy The Fly Guy. [ BSH ] *We are really scraping...
Phantoms Expectations: Alex Ciernik settles in
While this season’s Phantoms team is going to be pretty well stocked with more veteran players to offer the necessary support to keep things rolling through a long and arduous season, this is still set to be quite a young roster that they’re icing this time around. With new — and some quite high profile — faces stepping in up and down the lineup, this will be a team with some intrigue, but there are few individual pieces with more to prove than forward Alex Ciernik, as he jumps into the North ...
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 4: Jamie Drysdale
As we enter into the home stretch of the Top 25 under 25, we meet our highest ranked defender in the smooth skating, surprisingly solid, Jamie Drysdale. A player who was most known for his offense early on in his career, he has rounded out his game and become a truly important piece to the Flyers, both on and off the ice. No. 4: Jamie Drysdale 2025-26 Primary League/Team: Philadelphia Flyers (NHL) 2025-26 Statistics: 78 GP, 8 G, 24 A, 32 PTS Age as of 8/25/2026: 24 Acquired Via: Trad...
Porter Martone to be central to Flyers 2026-27 power play
The Flyers are less than a month away from training camp, and just under three weeks from seeing the Rookie Series taking place in Lehigh Valley. But in a special roundtable interview with Flyers Daily which was released Monday , the Flyers coaching staff stated that winger Porter Martone is going to be part of Philadelphia’s power play this season, and perhaps the catalyst that could start changing things for the better regarding that side of special teams. And assistant coach Jaroslav “...
Tuesday Morning Fly By: Getting closer
*Can you believe next week is September? It feels unbelievable. The unrelenting passage of time, amirite? Anyhoo, as we inch closer to things like training camp and preseason and such, have a look at this dive into the Flyers as a whole and how they plan to take a step forward after finally getting back into the playoffs last season. [ Flyers ] *One guy in particular that we’re looking forward to seeing take a step forward during this upcoming season is Denver Barkey, who impressed the he...
Heikki Ruohonen is making the grade
The last couple of years for Heikki Ruohonen have been, if nothing else, active. The center, drafted by the Flyers in fourth round of the 2024 draft, has certainly been racking up the miles travelled — having moved on from his playing career in Finland at the close of his draft year, his journey took him for a brief sojourn to Muskegon of the USHL before, with detours to represent his country on the international stage interspersed, landing at Harvard, where he’s just wrapped up his freshman y...
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 5: Denver Barkey
The final week of Top 25 Under 25 ranking is unfolding before us, and we’re moving into the top-5 with Denver Barkey. One of the Flyers’ more underrated prospects, he made an immediate high impact for the Phantoms in his rookie season and earned a quick recall to the big club, but the next challenge lies ahead — now that he’s tasted the NHL job, he works to keep it. No. 5 Denver Barkey 2025-26 Primary League/Team: Lehigh Valley (AHL), Philadelphia (NHL) 2025-26 Statistics: 7 G, 16 ...
Monday Morning Fly By: End of August
*We’re getting into our last full week of August, and actual hockey happenings are just around the corner! So we’ll begin here with a quick reminder of some important dates coming up, for those still needing to fill out the planners and whatnot. [ NBCSP ] *Checking back in with our Top 25 Under 25 ranking (which is nearing its conclusion already!) we’ve got Alex Bump clocking in at the sixth spot. [ BSH ] *Even more on Bump and some of the Flyers’ most exciting prospects herein. [ NH...
EA Sports really got the Flyers’ NHL 27 ratings wrong
While we’re twiddling our thumbs for the new Philadelphia Flyers season to start — or just have any semblance of professional hockey on our screens — some might opt to buy the latest installment of the NHL franchise by EA Sports for their respective video game console. It gives us a little jolt of excitement to get something hockey-related back in our minds once again as we gear up for several more months of Flyers hockey. NHL 27 isn’t out until September 11 but we’re getting little inkli...
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 6 Alex Bump
As we draw toward the end of this exercise, Alex Bump comes in just outside the top five at No. 6. His first full professional season was an exciting climb, beginning in Lehigh Valley before eventually earning an opportunity with the Flyers. No. 6 Alex Bump 2025-26 Primary League/Team: Lehigh Valley (AHL), Philadelphia (NHL) 2025-26 Statistics: 11 G, 15 A in 36 games (LHV), 5 G, 4 A in 17 games (PHI) Age as of 9/15/2026: 22 Acquired Via: 2022 NHL Draft — Round...
One bold prediction for each Flyer in 2026-27
With the countdown to the season opener less than six weeks away, and training camp less than a month from starting, it’s a good time to see what might be in the cards for each Flyer on the roster for the 2026-27 season. But let’s push the envelop a bit, and set the bar a little higher than usual. Here then is one bold prediction for each Flyers player regarding the upcoming 84-game season. Some might be a bit lofty. Of course, if every one of these predictions became reality, the Flyers would...
Friday Morning Fly By: And now, it’s 40
*The countdown thing is tired, right? I know. But headlines are hard in the dog days of August. Stop yelling at me! Anyhoo, every now and again one of these infernal ranked lists that we keep linking to says Good Stuff about the Flyers, and that makes it fun. For all of us! [ BSH ] *Speaking of the August dregs, we’re bored. So we’re doing wild speculation with a little side of ridiculous ideas. Don’t be so serious about it it’s fun. [ BSH ] *Shane Vansaghi won’t have Porter Martone ...
Flyers 2026 Top 25 Under 25, No. 7: Oliver Bonk
Breaking into the professional game last season, Oliver Bonk’s trajectory might have been a little stilted at times — through no fault of his own — but the work he’s done to continue to build up his stock has been undeniable. Already on the fast track to AHL graduation, Bonk is set to enter a critical sophomore year with the Phantoms this fall, continuing to polish out his game and refine his case as the Flyers’ next man up. No. 7: Oliver Bonk 2025-26 Primary League/Team: Lehigh...
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