Felt like this draft was a bunch of swings. Was pegged as a weak draft so they took raw players with good upside
Makes it that this draft could be a massive failure or one that brings some impact players after Luchanko.
Overall I leave slightly disappointed because Buium fell into their lap & they passed. But I like Luchanko, I like Gill a lot & Ruohonen/Powell have legit upside for later round picks.
I do come away absolutely stoked for next year's draft though. Potentially 6 top 45 picks in a stronger class.
by Flyers7914
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Definitely want to be more in tune with next year’s class, seeing as it’s supposed to be stronger. Love that they drafted 3 centers, clearly their biggest weakness right now. Maybe Berglund and Heikki become viable 3rd line le startable players. Excited for Jett’s speed as a weapon!
I was disappointed they passed on Buium, but appreciated how active and creative Briere and co tried to be even if their attempts at moving up didn’t pan out. Honestly, it leaves me more excited for next year’s draft and what potential there might be with all our picks.
Potentially moving more of the current roster at the trade deadline for 1st round picks would be a good idea considering 2025 is supposed to be more stacked.
Just missing one guy….
Well we needed centers
Pretty boring and fairly disappointing draft but we have no idea how it actually will turn out and we are clearly going all in on 2025 draft (and utilizing those picks in upcoming big moves).
Flyers now have 8 picks in first 3 rounds including 3 1sts. Will no doubt make multiple more asset attaining trades in next year.
That leaves a crazy amount of draft capital to make some moves. Lets see what Briere can pull off in next year …
Bros, the team is in rebuild. We want to go into this season without the thought of winning. We have 6 picks in two rounds in deepest draft in 20 years. I’m absolutely excited to watch MM in his first year transition, while building stock in the picks. 3 first rounds? Awesome!
Just enjoy the next year watching Michkov play and learn. We will be fine. To do this right, we need to suffer a couple seasons.
I can’t provide any worthy analysis, not on name talent alone Jett Luchanko is a stud. What a cool name. And Noah Powell is just the most Bottom 6 American grinder type name I’ve ever heard. I know nothing about him but I would be $10 that’s his profile
It’s underwhelming, honestly. I think you could have done better at the top. Don’t mind Gill or the guys in the middle/late, mainly from the backing of the legitimate scouting guys who do media.
You’re betting a lot on next years draft being deep and having a beat on scouting it well. I’m still hopeful in that regard and don’t think it’s a bad bet.
Ultimately I’ll still be following the next years for the incoming draftees with optimism like always. Hope Luchanko breaks out.
Surprised they didn’t grab a late round goalie again. They seemed to make that a organizational philosophy for awhile now. Always keep a long term project tucked away for a few years cause ya never know.
I am 100% good with this draft as long as we aren’t resigning TK. They punted the rebuild another season, which eats up time TK’s prime
All of you armchair scouts can get fucked. I have faith in Danny
What is with people blasting anyone expressing even slight disappointment in this draft? Stop accusing anyone who had some prospects they liked that the Flyers passed on as being armchair GM’s. 2 things can be true, I trust the Flyers front office to make the right choices AND I can also express disappointment that there was a player I liked that was passed by.
I really like Jett the more I read about him and hope he hits. It sounds like once we were unable to move into the top 10 that we really didn’t see anyone else worth grabbing so I trust them to make the call. As a DU alum I would have been over the moon to get Buium but clearly 12 other teams saw what the Flyers saw in him so hard to get mad about it.
I am really excited for next year and feel like the 2025 draft will really tell us how this rebuild is going to go. The thing I am most worried about is becoming Columbus after they drafted Nash. Just a team wasting the prime of a superstar because we aren’t able to get him the high end help he needs to take us over the top.
I don’t know enough.
These kids are young.
I like Danny so I *choose* to believe that he has a plan. I’m middle-aged so I’m at that point where I want my parents to see something great.
If it fails, that sucks. If it wins, I’m elated. I just want all *of you Philly brothers to be there if the latter comes true.
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