Brent Flahr

Penn State hockey landed a commitment from top prospect Gavin McKenna. As more CHL players make the jump, could Flyers draft pick Porter Martone be next?

There was a clear theme to the Flyers selections this weekend: size and work ethic. The Flyers got bigger and deeper as a result, but time will tell if it all pans out the way they intended.

With 10 days remaining until the NHL Draft, Flyers GM Danny Briere and assistant GM Brent Flahr met with the media for their annual pre-draft availability to discuss their plans with 11 picks in the upcoming draft.

Flyers assistant GM Brent Flahr spoke to the media on Monday on several prospects and their development as rookie camp nears its end.

By the time the second pick of the first round for the Flyers rolled around, the high of selecting a player with the potential of Matvei Michkov was still alive and well.  If Michkov is a swing for the fences, the selection the Flyers made at 22nd overall is more of a conservative pick. Oliver Bonk, a right-handed defenseman […]

Chuck Fletcher has been fired and Danny Briere is the interim GM of the Flyers. The guys discuss on a new YWT Podcast episode.

Flyers interim GM Danny Briere met with the media on Sunday morning and officially went where his predecessor wouldn’t. The Flyers are officially in a rebuild, one that Briere says “needs to be done the right way.”

On Wednesday, you saw that the current regime is incapable of handling a rebuild. They insisted upon an aggressive retool for a fast fix, not the necessary rebuild needed. Now it’s time to start that rebuild anyway, but focus on the front office that has so clearly set the Flyers back.

John Tortorella certainly knew all the right things to say, but doesn’t have much of a filter. What you see is what you get with him, there’s no gray area. That hardly appears to be the case with Flyers management. There’s a lot of gray area right now, in terms of making decisions, who is on board with what, and what the future may hold.