*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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
*We’ve spent a lot of time around here talking about why we would not love the Flyers targeting Darnell Nurse in a trade, but we’re also here to hear the counterarguments. [ BSH ]
*It’s a tough question of fit, though. [ Inquirer ]
*And it certainly wouldn’t be a move pursued without serious risk. [ The Athletic]
*In other news: the most recent word in the street is that things are progressing towards a contract extension for Dan Vladar. [ BSH ]
*Away from all of that, we’r...
The Stanley Cup has been handed out. The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 6 by a score of 3-0 to win the series and win the Cup for the first time since 2006. And we know a guy who built that team.
There are incredible stories built into that Hurricanes team: Rod Brind’Amour conquering the NHL and finishing on top, lifting the Cup as both coach and captain in Carolina, and plucky forwards who were cast aside for various reasons coming up to all be dominant for...
While we have come to expect that the Philadelphia Flyers are going to be signing goaltender Dan Vladar to a contract extension on July 1, we now know more specific details about what that new and shiny contract could look like for the Czech goalie.
We have vaguely known what Vladar’s contract is going to be, with it encroaching in the vicinity of a long-term deal and him getting a sizeable increase in salary, but that was just the information we got from some more local reporting. It’s o...
We’re continuing to chip away at our season reviews around here, but before we get too deep into dissecting the seasons of some of the Flyers’ top contributors, it’s worth taking a bit of an intermission to remind ourselves of all of the work that the supporting cast did around them.
The season is long, after all, and to keep the whole operation going, at times, contributions over the shorter term are required from players elsewhere in the organizational ladder. Some of these stopgap impa...
After yesterday’s profile on Elton Hermansson, next up on our board is fellow Swede Alexander Command, a center from Orebro HK.
Command is one of the centers in the murky middle of the first round – the group of Oliver Suvanto, Jack Hextall, and Ilia Morozov. To varying degrees, each of these players represent players with a high-floor and a lower NHL ceiling, where the players need to take sizable steps forward offensively to reach the Top-6 of a lineup.
Like many of the...
*Heck of a game last night, huh? The winning team is now just one single win away from the Stanley Cup. Very exciting! (Can you tell this is being written before the game has ended?) Anyhoo, in case you missed it, we got a little clarity on this whole Leafs’ pick situation that seems unnecessarily confusing because the NHL is ridiculous. [ BSH ]
*The Dylan Larkin saga continues, and perhaps Dylan Larkin doesn’t think the Flyers are the best fit for him but SOMEONE does. [ Inquirer ]
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The Philadelphia Flyers are looking around in the trade market for a defenseman and according to reports are at least interested in Oilers blueliner Darnell Nurse. While it might initially make zero sense, there is a world where it’s a great trade for Philadelphia.
How quickly things change. Two out of the last three seasons, Edmonton defenseman Darnell Nurse was part of a team that went to back-to-back Stanley Cup finals, losing both times to the Panthers. Nurse, now 31, was eating up a ...
On the BSH Draft Board, we’re officially at the spot where the Flyers will pick on Friday, June 26: No. 21. The honor goes to Elton Hermansson on our draft board, a toolsy Swedish right winger who played the majority of the season with MoDo of the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan.
Hermansson is unquestionably in the second tier of this year’s Swedish draft class. Below Ivar Stenberg and Viggo Bjorck, Hermansson fits in a tier with defenseman Malte Gustafsson and Alexander Command in this c...
Since the beginning of June 2025, Philadelphia Flyers general manager Danny Briere has made nearly three dozen moves. The majority of those were contract signings, while the rest involved trading and, in one particular case, a waiver pickup. Some of those signings were signing fairly simple entry-level contracts. Meanwhile, some trades were also of the minor league variety, giving players a fresh start with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms or a place to develop and get playing time. Overall, Briere ...
*It continues to be Peak Rumors Season around here — and everywhere else, really — and this latest trade rumor has huge embarrassing failure written all over it. Danny, do not. [ BSH ]
*Your choice at 20th overall on the BSH Community Draft Board might be the best choice for the Flyers at 21, should he make it there. [ BSH ]
*Speaking of both prospects and rumors, there’s always some weird stuff coming out of the NHL Scouting Combine in Buffalo every year, and this year is r...
The Philadelphia Flyers are starting to turn a corner. They made the Stanley Cup Playoffs and won a round for the first time since 2020, and general manager Danny Briere has the team on the track to contention.
It’s another key offseason for Briere and the Flyers front office, and that starts with the NHL Entry Draft in Buffalo on June 26.
In each of the past few years, the Flyers had multiple first-round picks heading into draft night, and plenty of picks on Day 2 as well. However, ...
When the Philadelphia Flyers dealt Scott Laughton at the 2025 NHL trade deadline, it already looked like a good deal by general manager Daniel Briere. They received Nikita Grebenkin as well as a 2027 first-round pick in exchange for the longtime Flyers forward, a fourth-round pick, and a sixth-round pick.
There were conditions attached to that Leafs’ first-round pick, though, and unless you’ve been living under a rock in recent months, you know how complicated things have gotten with that...
It feels like every week we heard that some team or executive was interested in Owen Tippett . It makes sense– he’s one of the fastest skaters in the league, one of the hardest shots , and was the team leader in goals with 28. He’s got all the ingredients to make an elite player on a team-friendly contract for years to come. The speedy winger doesn’t turn 28 until February of next season, so he’s squarely in his prime with what feels like another level to reach. All of this comes together to m...
The Philadelphia Flyers are going to look for upgrades in certain positions. That’s one of the most obvious statements we can make — as a team that entered the playoffs and actually won a round, will obviously look to improve themselves to get back to that point (and maybe win two rounds) next year. But one of those areas in need of improvement for the Flyers is their blue line and they could be sniffing around a certain Edmonton Oilers defenseman that needs a new home.
Darnell Nurse has ...
Usually, whenever we get the pleasure of talking about a new, exciting Russian prospect, there is an inherent wonder about the naturalization process that their game will have to undergo once they start playing in North America. Ilia Morozov is not one of those players.
Coming up through the American AAA system and the USHL for the two years prior to his NCAA debut, Morozov has been playing on North American ice for much of his development. He burst onto the scene this year with a v...
*We got some actual, honest-to-goodness Flyers-related hockey news, as Danny Briere signed Phantoms favorite Zayde Wisdom to a two-year deal. Love to see it, people really love this kid. [ BSH ]
*Danny B. has been doing a little bit of rounds with the media this week, and yesterday we got the details of his sit down with the fine folks at the Inky. [ Inquirer ]
*Like we’ve said uh… every single day, pretty much, there are two things going right now: trade rumors and draft stuff. We’l...
JP Hurlbert has a very interesting story. He is one of the case studies that people will point out as someone who is getting new opportunities in the new landscape for NHL prospects that has been created because of the NCAA-CHL agreement.
Now that prospects can play in both the CHL and the NCAA — since before a couple years ago, a prospect had to choose just one path since the NCAA deemed the CHL as “playing professional” because of the little allowance players were given — we’re seeing m...
Just as the Flyers have been working on chipping away at their remaining bits of business, so too has their affiliate down in Lehigh Valley. The Phantoms have a little less on deck to tackle this summer, but they’ve got one of their more meaningful bits taken care of early. That is, the team announced this morning that they’ve extended forward Zayde Wisdom to a two-year contract extension.
RE-SIGNED: Zayde Wisdom 🔥Welcome back, Wiz! Read more: https://t.co/7zTZGdt7ag pic.twitter.com/XQitz...
When the Philadelphia Flyers signed Christian Dvorak to his one-year contract last July 1, the idea was the Flyers were putting a short-term bandage on what looked like a significant problem. The center depth would still be an issue moving forward, but at least the Flyers had some semblance of an immediate answer to help Sean Couturier and Noah Cates carry the workload.
The price of $5.4 million AAV was considered a bit steep, particularly for a guy who registered 33 points in 82 games la...
*Game 4 tonight for those of us enjoying (is “enjoying” too strong a word? Consuming? Perceiving? Whatever) the Stanley Cup Final. Big game. Must win for those Canes. Anyhoo, remember how all of us wanted to find a way to trade for Robert Thomas? Turns out the asking price was a little… it was a bit much. [ BSH ]
*It’s getting to be high season for the rumor mill but it seems like the current crop of rumors is drying up completely, at least for us. Like this Dylan Larkin thing is...