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Luke Penning

Temple University Graduate, Former hockey player and coach interested in all things Flyers

Ranking the Flyers’ Last 11 Drafts

Luke Penning | March 29, 2022

Over the last decade, the Philadelphia Flyers have undergone one of the NHL’s more subtle rebuilds. The team never bottomed out following their Stanley Cup Final appearance in 2009-10, but…

Flyers’ Top Undrafted Free Agent Signings of All-Time

Luke Penning | September 6, 2020

In hockey, player development is rarely linear. There are players that are pro-ready coming straight out of the entry draft, while others require more painstaking regimens. As currently constructed, the…

Oskar Lindblom and Optimizing the Flyers’ Lineup

Luke Penning | August 21, 2020

The 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs are well underway and have been an overwhelming success. The Philadelphia Flyers are currently embroiled in a chippy series with the Montreal Canadiens, leading them…

Flyers’ 2020 NHL Draft Targets: Wild Cards

Luke Penning | July 28, 2020

The Stanley Cup Playoffs are now set to begin on Aug. 1, and as a result, the NHL has decided to set a tentative date of Oct. 9 for the…

Flyers’ 2020 NHL Draft Targets: Goalies

Luke Penning | June 12, 2020

The NHL has announced that training camps for the return to play will begin on July 10. Much analysis will be done between now and then on the playoff matchups…

Flyers’ 2020 NHL Draft Targets: Defensemen

Luke Penning | May 31, 2020

It’s official, the NHL is coming back eventually to finish the 2019-20 season. The playoff format has some interesting wrinkles, such as the best-of-five qualifying round and the four-team round-robin…

Flyers’ 2020 NHL Draft Targets: Wingers

Luke Penning | May 26, 2020

Hockey is back! Or it will be soon. The NHL has tentatively agreed to a return to play plan involving a 24-team playoff format but is still ironing out the…

Flyers’ 2020 NHL Draft Targets: Centers

Luke Penning | May 20, 2020

Excitement surrounding the impending NHL draft has begun to heat up. No one yet knows what the draft order will be or even how it will be determined, but the…

Flyers’ 2020 NHL Draft Priorities

Luke Penning | May 13, 2020

The last month has teemed with speculation about the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. We are rapidly approaching the usual time frame for the annual event but with the season still…

Flyers 2020-21 Roster: Who’s on the Bubble?

Luke Penning | April 30, 2020

The 2019-20 NHL season served as a coming-out party of sorts for the Philadelphia Flyers. The calculated approach of former general manager Ron Hextall aided in restocking a baron cupboard…

Flyers’ 2019-20 MVP Candidates

Luke Penning | April 23, 2020

The spread of COVID-19 forced the NHL to put its season on hold beginning on March 12. At the time of the shutdown, no team in the NHL was as…

Flyers’ Backup Options for Hart Are Plentiful

Luke Penning | March 27, 2020

For the first time in decades, the Philadelphia Flyers have a good young starting goaltender with the potential to be a franchise cornerstone. Carter Hart, 21, has established himself as…

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