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I don’t know much about these kids, but I’m excited one of them is going to be a Philadelphia Flyer!!
“David Pagnotta: Re NHL 2026 draft: Yeah you’ve got Gavin McKenna but they’re saying, a lot of the scouts are, that the top 5 picks in this draft are gonna be potential superstars – Inside Sports”
Flyer’s 4th line is embarrassing really. The fact ND plays any games is a joke. Still shows the dumb mentality of the flyer’s way. The 3 they use offer next to nothing.
Wonder what vet they bring in to solidify that 4th line. Tocchet will be in his ear.
The 4th line is really meaningless, it’s a huge nothing burger, they’re rebuilding, results at this point are finishing as low in the standings as they can.
It’s even more obvious in the year over year numbers. Lowest attendance in 30 years, except for the lockout year. I think they bought the New Error in Orange until Torts lit a match, threw it in the fuel tank and walked away last year. Without all the Torts drama the focus has shifted back to the on ice product that doesn’t have a Bedard type franchise center to promote/build around and the best young player they have, is hardly playing. But they did get bigger to prepare for that deep run.
Considering how the Flyers are one of the few teams that like to build from the bottom up it is absurd how unproductive they are. That’s multiple flyers coaches/gms who think ND deserves ice time.
Rebuild over without drafting or acquiring a single franchise cornerstone. Flyers roster building at it’s finest.
The rebuild is just starting, don’t buy into their verbal diarrhea about it being over and them hoping the worst is behind them. They secretly want to finish at the bottom again, they just won’t outwardly say it because they still want fans to believe. Exciting times…Lets Go Flyers!!!
The rebuild plan is going to a tee!! They’re still slightly competitive enough to draw in ticket revenue, primarily a gate driven league, but still bad enough that they’ll be selling at the deadline to acquire more quality picks and hopefully get into a top three overall selection. It’s a great time to be a Flyer fan.
I just looked up Anaheim’s lineup to see where their guys were…interesting.
Chris Kreider — Leo Carlsson — Troy Terry
Cutter Gauthier — Mason McTavish — Beckett Sennecke
Nikita Nesterenko — Ryan Poehling — Alex Killorn
Ryan Strome — Mikael Granlund — Frank Vatrano
Jackson LaCombe — Drew Helleson
Olen Zellweger — Jacob Trouba
Pavel Mintyukov — Ian Moore
Lukas Dostal
There’s a lot of “bold” there!!
*Helleson was acquired by trading Ducks draft pick/player Josh Manson to Colorado.
*Gauthier was acquired by trading Ducks draft pick/player Jamie Drysdale to the Flyers.
*Poehling was acquired by trading Ducks draft pick/player Trevor Zegras to the Flyers.-martone will be a stud. IMO he will be the better overall player and have more of an impact than MM.
-nesbitt not exactly lighting it up.
– amico is the 6/7th dman and not getting many minutes. he would have been better served playing juniors 1 year getting top minutes then head to college
– the rest ok starts nothing special so far. see what happens at by the end of the year and the progress made.
* all except martone are years away if they pan out.
brick by brick
Thanks for sharing that, good read. The future is going to be exciting!! If the Flyers can just follow the lead of teams like Anaheim and or Arizona/Utah, good things will come. Just gotta keep building brick by brick like Anaheim did, and then when the time is right, add some good veterans and a quality NHL coach.
2015 – drafted Troy Terry
2018 – drafted Lukas Dostal
2019 – drafted Zegras & Jackson LaCombe
2020 – drafted Drysdale (traded for Cutter), Colangelo & Moore
2021 – drafted McTavish & Zellweger
2022 – drafted Pavel Mintyukov
2023 – drafted Leo Carlsson
2024 – drafted Beckett Sennecke & Stian Solberg
2025 – drafted Roger McQueenBrick by brick they laid down the foundation for a core and then eventually made some good trades and UFA signing, along with an NHL caliber coach. Their current success is 7 or 8 years in the making but they’ve got something nice going on there.
Zegras is going to single handedly ruin my rebuild dreams, what’s wrong with that kid? Didn’t anyone tell him “the plan”?
An actual surprising October, to be honest. I thought Rick Tocchet did a good job keep a low-end skilled team fairly competitive. As the good teams start to rise though, which usually happens, I think you’ll see the Flyers back in the bottom quarter of the league. Which is where they need to be, if we’re being honest with ourselves. Keep drafting and building.
Ugly, ugly, hockey right there. I think there may have been a team party on Saturday night or something? :0
One team I really love to beat, I don’t care if we lose every game for the rest of the year, just beat the Leafs. 😂
Too much drama in here associated with him and the Flyers. They gave him another chance to showcase himself and it didn’t work out, there’s also nothing wrong with going back and playing Junior at 19 years old, he just turned 19 August 21st. Last season he only played 46 games in Junior, 9 in the AHL and 4 in the NHL, go down and play a lot of minutes and get better. I don’t know what the big deal is from a fan perspective, this is still a very young kid.
The issues have nothing to do with the player and everything to do with the Flyers. The kid was a galaxy brain pick on the heels of the Cutter screwup. If he had been drafted a few picks later and spent the last 2 years honing his craft in OHL (and possibly College) nobody would care because that’s where he should’ve been drafted and where he should be playing.
The Flyers haven’t had a franchise defenseman in forever but they desperately need one. One falls into their lap, all the draft experts, everyone not part of the Flyers agrees. He has every award known to man in college but DB compares him to Emil Andrae (who the Flyers treat like dog poop when it comes to playing time in the NHL) and refuses to draft him for a 5’11” 200 ft player who loves the weight room with limited upside (best estimate 3rd line).
Instead of letting the kid develop, DB immediately signs him and puts him on the NHL roster and promotes the crap out of the kid including him being the “youngest player to ever make the Flyers roster” despite him not being ready. The kid can’t develop in College because DB signed him to a pro contract. Another strike against the front office who likes to complain that he’s too good for the OHL but has no other option.
They put him on the team again this year despite him missing 3 months of the offseason and not looking particularly great in the preseason. Put him on the team anyway to help develop his offensive skills and then proceed to put him on 4th line and press box in equal measure before low key sending him back to the OHL.
All of this while the player they should’ve drafted (and need) and consensus top 3-5 prospect in the world for each of the last 2 years Zeev, is QBing the NHLs #1 pp even if he is going through some growing pains. The guy they said was the reason they couldn’t draft Zeev? No matter how well he plays, does not seem to factor into the Flyers plans. On merit alone, Andrae should’ve been with the Flyers and playing.
Am i wrong on any of that?
So anyway, yea, it’s all about the drama with the Flyers. Was it coincidence they benched Jett when they played Zeev so the 2 young players wouldn’t have a head to head easy comparison that would embarrass the Flyers? Drama.
I get that y’all are frustrated with the organization, there hasn’t been much to cheer about over the past 10 years with poor ownership and management since Mr. Snider passed away. But this isn’t as big a deal in my mind as you are making it out to be. The center ice position is a position of weakness within the organization and needs to be addressed, that’s why I have no issues with them swinging at a few young guys given the lack of talent at that position within the organization and how I personally believe it’s an absolute key to having a winning franchise. It’s not the only key, but it’s a major major one, for me. Look at any successful franchise and you can see they have strength and depth down the middle.
Heck, look at 2009, 2010, 2011, the Flyers had Richards, Carter and a very young Giroux, who aren’t exactly Crosby & Malkin, or Sakic & Forsberg, or Yzerman & Fedorov, or Bergeron & Krejci, etc. etc. but they were a big part of getting to the finals in 2010. There was obviously more to it than that (Pronger) but you gotta be strong down the middle. Anyways…I digress.
There’s lot of 19/20/21 year old kids throughout the history of the draft who’ve had a hard time getting a spot on NHL rosters because of the 20 year old AHL rule, which they are changing because of that, or they’re just not quite good enough for the NHL but they’re also perhaps too good for junior. Look at Connor Geekie in Tampa, last year he played 50 games and then got send down, this year he played 6 games and then got sent down again. Marco Rossi got sent down two years in a row to the AHL because he wasn’t ready.
Jett just turned 19 in August, he’s still a VERY young player…things will be fine with him.
Ten games in last year, the Flyers were 3-6-1. This year, they’re 6-3-1. The turnaround has been remarkable.
Coaching_101 🙂
Through 9 games they’re kind of in the muddle middle area we all thought they’d be in. There’s a new coach and new systems to learn, and there’s a serious lack of high-end talent, but they’re managing to hang around and be tough to play against, which can be both fun and boring to watch. Let’s Go Flyers!!!
prove it
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Tavares has only been top 10 once in the past ten years, 2017 he finished 8th in voting.
