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Phantoms Expectations: Noah Powell finds his game
The Phantoms have made some notable shifts in their projected roster for this season, adding an extra level of veteran support, but there will be no shortage of rookies still in the mix to balance them out. And one of the most intriguing cases for this season is Noah Powell, who’s made the jump to the pros after a winding, somewhat unconventional, development journey, to date, and is looking to find a greater definition to his game at this new destination. How did his 2025-26 season go? ...
Predicting whether every Flyer will be better or worse in 2026-27
The Philadelphia Flyers are in a weird place right now. Without much evidence of anything for how next season will go, we have a wide array of possibilities going through our head. Could they suddenly put everything together, with all the young players fulfilling their potential, and battle for the top spot in the division? It’s possible. Could they also be one of the worst teams in the NHL just because of some lack of true star power and other teams surging past them because of the offseason ...
Friday Morning Fly By: Main character energy
*The Flyers’ beat over at The Failing New York Times sat down with coach Rick Tocchet — in Rittenhouse Square! Very important that you know this detail — and we learned some stuff. Nothing earth-shattering was revealed, but definitely some interesting tidbits. [ The Athletic ] *Naturally, there is one subject discussed during this interview that has become the Main Thing. Guess what it is. You’ll never guess. [ TSN ] *Anyhoo, yesterday’s Big News was the release of the full rookie ca...
Flyers release Rookie Camp roster and schedule
The Flyers announced the players who will be attending next week’s training camp , as well as the schedule which runs from Sept. 11 through to Sept. 16, including the two games against the New York Rangers next weekend. The next generation is going camping! ⛺️ Check out this year’s Rookie Camp roster and schedule. #LetsGoFlyers — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) September 3, 2026 The 27-man roster includes 16 forwards, eight blueliners, and a trio of goaltenders. Leading the fo...
Tyson Foerster’s new contract looks even more like a steal now
When Philadelphia Flyers general manager Danny Briere finished negotiating an eight-year, $56.8 million deal with Tyson Foerster days prior to the Leo Carlsson offer sheet, many were surprised. With Jamie Drysdale and Trevor Zegras still without deals, and needing deals before salary arbitration cases began, getting Foerster locked up for eight years appeared to be a feather in Briere’s cap. The deal most likely appears it will be the last eight-year contract Briere will be signing for some ti...
5 Flyers who could be gone by the end of the season
Transactions are the lifeblood of being a sports fan. Sure, we love watching the games and thinking about cool players and other stuff, but conjuring up some moves that your favorite team can make at the trade deadline, or what potential free agent they can sign, or how some young prospect they just drafted is going to change the team, is just so rooted into our being. The Philadelphia Flyers are probably going to make some trades throughout this upcoming season. They could be a collectio...
Thursday Morning Fly By: Organizational shuffle
*It’s still another week or so before things start to really pick up around here, but we did get a small bit of news to tide us over until before the big happenings start coming. Well, it’s actually a whole lot of small bits of news, as the Flyers announced a bevy of changes to their operations staffing. [ BSH ] *Last year was a huge one for Flyers goaltender Dan Vladar, but what can we reasonably expect to see from in this coming new season? [ PHLY ] *Corey Pronman’s digging into so...
Flyers overhaul Hockey Operations staff with several hirings
It wasn’t a huge signing or trade, but the Philadelphia Flyers have altered their staff significantly when it comes to trainers, therapists, conditioning coaches, and equipment managers. And some changes in coaching and development. OFFICIAL: We have made the following changes to our hockey operations staff for the 2026-27 season. https://t.co/3In5SRW9Ho — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) September 2, 2026 In an announcement today , the Flyers announced Alex Ambrose has bee...
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. ...
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