The Philadelphia Flyers 2024-2025 Season: Progressing Towards Lord Stanley's Cup

[awaz]

Interesting article about offer sheets for next year:

Flyers named as team who could use offer sheets this summer

The Philadelphia Flyers were named as a team that could send out an offer sheet to aggressively improve the roster this NHL offseason.

www.broadstreethockey.com

How offer sheets work:

NHL offer sheet, explained: Compensation, qualifications for signing restricted free agents | Sporting News

Offer sheets aren't as common nowadays as they used to be in the NHL.

www.sportingnews.com

Now, one thing I realized is that you have to offer your own picks and not acquired picks, which is unfortunate.

Current 2025 PHI draft picks:
6 (PHI), 22 (EDM), 26 (COL), 38 (PHI), 41 (ANA), 44 (CLB), 48 (CAL)

So, probably not worth it to sign a player over $4.58M, unless we believe that player will be better than our own 1st round pick this year.
However, probably worth it to take a chance on any player just under $4.58M, because we get that player and only give up a 2nd round pick.
Giving up 38 when we also have 41, isn't a big deal.

"Of course, giving up unprotected draft picks is not easy without knowing if your team is going to be better or not. If it ends up being a top-10 pick next summer..."

This line is the key to me. With the way the Flyers are right now, no way I'd give up the 2026 1st rounder when there's a chance they could win the lottery and draft McKenna. Certainly not for that group of players.

I'm all in for the tank next year. Don't add anything of value this summer, hire a poor sap to coach a sorry team next year, and start turning the corner in 2026-2027. Then you get all 314176 picks they have this summer and hopefully a truly high end 1st rounder from the 2026 draft to start with. Leave Luchanko in juniors. Leave Zavragin in Russia. Let Bonk/Barkey play in the AHL. Shit maybe you do hire Lappy for 1 year just to make sure he doesn't get a chance to "develop" those guys. He can be the sacrificial lamb. Trade Risto.

It's just not time yet to my eyes.

 

[lasgop8]

Why can’t the Flyers keep a good coach?

With Brad Shaw at the helm, the Flyers have now had 24 coaches in their history. Why have they been unable to keep someone with a long tenure?

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[Maverick426h]

"Of course, giving up unprotected draft picks is not easy without knowing if your team is going to be better or not. If it ends up being a top-10 pick next summer..."

This line is the key to me. With the way the Flyers are right now, no way I'd give up the 2026 1st rounder when there's a chance they could win the lottery and draft McKenna. Certainly not for that group of players.

I'm all in for the tank next year. Don't add anything of value this summer, hire a poor sap to coach a sorry team next year, and start turning the corner in 2026-2027. Then you get all 314176 picks they have this summer and hopefully a truly high end 1st rounder from the 2026 draft to start with. Leave Luchanko in juniors. Leave Zavragin in Russia. Let Bonk/Barkey play in the AHL. Shit maybe you do hire Lappy for 1 year just to make sure he doesn't get a chance to "develop" those guys. He can be the sacrificial lamb. Trade Risto.

It's just not time yet to my eyes.

Offer sheeting people this summer obviously makes no sense. Idk about the tank next year, but wtf happened to the tank THIS year? Were the last 9 games of the season THAT valuable for player evaluation entering the offseason? We could've kept Torts for 9 more games, finished 3rd in the draft lottery and THEN fired him. I just don't really understand the logic behind letting him go when we did.

Now we're going to screw off and draft 9th or 10th overall instead of top 3. I just don't get it!! Really, truly, the wins we're getting now over inferior competition are about as meaningless as possible. All we're going to accomplish is potentially getting Michkov the Calder, that's about it. We can often get away with him cheating offensively against these bad teams, but not the rest of the league.

 

[awaz]

Offer sheeting people this summer obviously makes no sense. Idk about the tank next year, but wtf happened to the tank THIS year? Were the last 9 games of the season THAT valuable for player evaluation entering the offseason? We could've kept Torts for 9 more games, finished 3rd in the draft lottery and THEN fired him. I just don't really understand the logic behind letting him go when we did.

Now we're going to screw off and draft 9th or 10th overall instead of top 3. I just don't get it!! Really, truly, the wins we're getting now over inferior competition are about as meaningless as possible. All we're going to accomplish is potentially getting Michkov the Calder, that's about it. We can often get away with him cheating offensively against these bad teams, but not the rest of the league.

Bingo. Most of the draft stuff out there says there's a big drop after Schaefer, Misa, Hagens, Marone, and Frondell. Flyers playing their way right out of those guys being available.

Team is just depressing these days tbh.

 

[Maverick426h]

Bingo. Most of the draft stuff out there says there's a big drop after Schaefer, Misa, Hagens, Marone, and Frondell. Flyers playing their way right out of those guys being available.

Team is just depressing these days tbh.

Yeah, it fucking pisses me off beyond belief...Lol I am laughing out loud, but crying deep inside. I can't for the life of me understand what the benefit is in winning these last 9 games. Making the playoffs is a virtual impossibility, but passing Anaheim, Shitsburgh, NYI and even Detroit in the standings is definitely possible.

We were on track to draft 3rd or 4th overall and now we could literally end up drafting 12th overall, perhaps even worse. What in the ACTUAL FUCK!?!?

 

[Maverick426h]

You can maybe add Caleb Desnoyers to your list, but yes, if there's a big drop off after the first 5-6 prospects (as everyone expects), then we just completely fucked ourselves out of a potential All-Star, top of the lineup player!!! And all for what!?! To find out that we can beat the worst teams in the Nhl repeatedly when the games are no longer meaningful!?!

I just cannot fathom it at all.

 

[lasgop8]

And as crazy as it sounds, this is the mismanagement of this team that gets me irked!

Be prepared for an 8-10th pick in the draft.

Posted this on March 14th its been a pattern of this organization so there should be no surprises.

 

[Maverick426h]

Posted this on March 14th its been a pattern of this organization so there should be no surprises.

You're not wrong, however, Torts getting fired changed the trajectory of this team. We were absolutely going to pick top 5. You were going to be wrong and then you got lucky (or unlucky), depending on how you look at it.

 

[Maverick426h]

We were scoring 1.75 goals per game in the last 12 games that Torts coached. Yes, it's a much smaller sample size, but since he's been gone, we are scoring 5 goals per game. The same fucking players.

We can debate how the schedule is lighter now, but during that 12 game stretch, we got destroyed by Chicago and Seattle, two of the worst teams in the league.

As much as I don't want to see anyone tank, that was exactly what we WERE doing until he got fired.

Now, the entire franchise has been jolted and looks like they actually have something to play for, which they really don't...Lol

 

[Maverick426h]

Perhaps the plan was to tank all along, then Gary Bettman called up Danny B and told him we'd regret it if we finished top 5 in the draft lottery. Sort of like in the movie "42" when the commissioner Happy Chandler calls up Branch Rickey and says he's suspending the Dodgers' manager Leo Durocher for a year.

 

[Sparhawk]

 

[Maverick426h]

Another thing. Why

In my opinion, drafting 10th overall now is more likely than 4th. Unless there's a sudden change in tactic, that ship has sailed. Our schedule is easier and now we're actually scoring goals. I do find it incredibly odd that we have no games in 9 of the next 11 days.

 

[Chris p Bacon]

"Of course, giving up unprotected draft picks is not easy without knowing if your team is going to be better or not. If it ends up being a top-10 pick next summer..."

This line is the key to me. With the way the Flyers are right now, no way I'd give up the 2026 1st rounder when there's a chance they could win the lottery and draft McKenna. Certainly not for that group of players.

I'm all in for the tank next year. Don't add anything of value this summer, hire a poor sap to coach a sorry team next year, and start turning the corner in 2026-2027. Then you get all 314176 picks they have this summer and hopefully a truly high end 1st rounder from the 2026 draft to start with. Leave Luchanko in juniors. Leave Zavragin in Russia. Let Bonk/Barkey play in the AHL. Shit maybe you do hire Lappy for 1 year just to make sure he doesn't get a chance to "develop" those guys. He can be the sacrificial lamb. Trade Risto.

It's just not time yet to my eyes.

This unfortunately is a story book ending and this is the Flyers organization, so....

 

[lasgop8]

Its not easy being me!

 

[lasgop8]

2025 NHL Mock Draft with Lottery Simulator | Tankathon

2025 NHL Mock Draft with lottery simulator to see where the top NHL prospects could be drafted. Order updated after every game. Some team needs are factored into each draft simulation result

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[purdue81]

Happy April.

 

[lasgop8]

Happy April.

Happy April fools day!!

 

[Chris p Bacon]

Happy April fools day!!

That's what this is, just like how Bill Murray was stuck in a repeating Groundhog day, our Organization has been stuck in April 1st for over a decade!