Luke Penning
Temple University Graduate, Former hockey player and coach interested in all things Flyers
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Flyers' 2020 NHL Draft Targets: Wingers
May 26th, 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 details regarding dates and locations. This course of action has been lauded by droves of hockey-deprived fans but has piled more uncertainty on the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. James...
Flyers' 2020 Draft Targets: Centers
May 20th, 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 prospects ranking boards are set and scouting season is in full swing. Related: 2009 NHL Entry Draft - 5 Forgotten Picks The Philadelphia Flyers are deep at virtually all...
Flyers' 2020 NHL Draft Priorities
May 13th, 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 on hold, it has yet to be determined how the draft order will be decided and when the draft will happen. Related: Pennsylvania Hockey - A Long, Proud...
Flyers 2020-21 Roster: Who's on the Bubble?
April 30th, 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 of prospects over the last five years, but new GM Chuck Fletcher has taken things a step further. The team and its players finally made good on their...
Flyers' 2019-20 MVP Candidates
April 23rd, 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 hot as the Philadelphia Flyers. They had won nine of their last ten games and seemed poised for a lengthy playoff run. With the fate of their most successful season in the last decade hanging in...
Flyers' Top Undrafted Free Agent Signings of All-Time
April 15th, 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 NHL Entry Draft consists of seven rounds, 217 total selections. Even with the abundance of scouting resources utilized by teams today,...
