The season is nearing a close, good gosh it’s gone fast!!! It feels like yesterday it just started, and yet another hockey season is almost in the books. Morgan Frost is riding high, while some other players, well, just look like they don’t care. Without further delay, here or are answers to your questions.
Stays:
Morgan Frost
Owen Tippett
Noah Cates
Joel Farabee
Nic Deslauriers
Scott Laughton
Brendan Lemieux
Travis Konecny
Cam York
Nick Seeler
Ivan Provorov
Rasmus Ristolainen
Carter Hart
Sam Ersson
Sean Couturier
Cam Atkinson
Ryan Ellis (I do not think he will ever play again, thus this would require just moving his contract, to which this could transpire at the trade deadline)
Goes:
Tony DeAngelo
Travis Sanheim
Wade Allison
Tanner Laczynski
Felix Sandström
Kevin Hayes
JvR
Justin Braun
Prospect Wise- Wyatte Wylie
This is a valid question, considering all the major changes the Flyers will make to the Hockey Ops and team for that matter this season. With the addition of Dan Hilferty it became clear to me that Comcast will not sell the Flyers. They would not have hired a bulldog like Hilferty, and one that has an extensive track record like Dan Hilferty. Let’s revisit this in three to four years at least.
One thing has become clear over the course of the past week and a half, and that is the relationship between John Tortorella and Danny Briere. The two are spending time in the press box together watching some of these games, while going over the future of some of the players and the organization alike. Me thinking that air will be announced as the permanent General Manager sometime after the season concludes. The goal would be to have a permanent General Manager in place at least a month before the draft.
Eric Lindros and Chris Pronger have indeed been rumored to take positions within the organization somehow. Exactly what type of positions are being offered, or if they were offered at all has yet to be determined. Things have kind of cooled off in that department.
it could be a bad idea depending on what job is being offered to them. Pronger does have experience in a Senior Advisor role to the President, that was the title he was given with the Florida Panthers organization, but Lindros has limited experience in some of these roles. Again let’s not jump to conclusions, no one knows exactly what type of role or positions they were being offered.
Goes:
Tony DeAngelo
Travis Sanheim
Wade Allison
Tanner Laczynski
Felix Sandström
Kevin Hayes
JvR
Justin Braun
Prospect Wise- Wyatte Wylie
NHL Draft Targets:
Depending on where the Flyers select. They could target Zach Benson, Leo Carlsson, Adam Fanitlli (If they move up the board Ping Pong Ball Drawing is May 8), Will Smith, Oliver Moore, or Dalibor Dvorsky
Hockey Ops:
President- Ray Shero
Senior Advisor to President- Chris Pronger
GM- Danny Briere
Assistant GM- Korie Chevrie (Would become the 7th woman in history to hold this title). She also interviewed well with the Seattle Kraken, and spent time with the Arizona Coyotes at their rookie camp last Fall.
Senior Advisors- Eric Lindros, Brent Flahr possibly
Here are some notable players with cap to move this offseason, and I would do just that:
Tony DeAngelo
Travis Sanheim
Kevin Hayes
JvR
I would not add many players (Vets), just stockpile youth
Goes:
Tony DeAngelo
Travis Sanheim
Wade Allison
Tanner Laczynski
Felix Sandström
Kevin Hayes
JvR
Justin Braun
Prospect Wise- Wyatte Wylie
Torts will be a Flyers coach next season, 100%
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