Luke Penning
Temple University Graduate, Former hockey player and coach interested in all things Flyers
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Flyers' 2020 NHL Draft Targets: Goalies
June 12th, 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 and each team’s chances. The draft has effectively been placed on the backburner, but with so many prospects to dissect, we continue on to look at some goaltenders. This...
Flyers' 2020 NHL Draft Targets: Defensemen
May 31st, 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 involving the top-four seeded teams in each conference. With the return to action looming, scouts around the league breathe a sigh of...
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 NHL 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...
