🚨 The Philadelphia Flyers have been stuck in mediocrity for years, and it’s time to ask the tough question: can their fans handle the pain of a total rebuild? 🚨
In this video, we dive into the possibility of the Flyers tearing it all down and starting from scratch. From trading away beloved players to tanking for top draft picks, we explore the potential consequences of a full-scale rebuild. Flyers fans, are you ready to endure the short-term pain for the potential of long-term gain? Let’s discuss!
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Good work guys love these pods always entertaining and informative
I am totally in favor of starting from scratch. Since 2009, every Stanley Cup winning team has had a major contributor that was a top 4 pick with the exception of Boston, who although they had Seguin, he was not an integral part of that team. Penguins had Fleury, Malkin, Crosby, and Staal, Chicago had Toews and Kane, LA had Doughty, Caps had Ovechkin and Backstrom, Blues had Pietrangelo, Tampa had Stamkos and Hedman, Colorado had MacKinnon, Landeskog, and Makar, Vegas had Eichel, and Florida had Barkov, Ekblad, Reinhart, and Bennett.
Obviously most of these teams added good players around them, but these players formed the base. It doesn't guarantee a Cup (many teams have not won the Cup in spite of having top picks – Buffalo comes to mind), but 15 of the last 16 Cups have players drafted that high, which means if you want to win, the odds say you need to get top 4 picks. Even other teams that have top picks at least have become competitive – NJ, Edmonton, Toronto, for example.
I want the Flyers to get several top 4 picks to help make them a continually competitive team. Sadly, Philly doesn't do this, so the team will continue to flounder about.
There are good things like jamie, catesy, bobby development. there are lots of meh ones like close to none return for frost and beezer. Powerplay is at bottom for second year straight. Torts keeps repeating for xxx time players need to be more consistent, what it actually means? Probably nothing much at this point.
Tk tippet are meh but for a lot of money. Cant see how this organisation can be successful with being nice and no pressure to everyone. how you expect top players to come and be part of this mess. How its any better than last season. How many more rebuild season is needed?
If you look how much monet flyers spend and what they have , its ridiculous. Stopped watching it at all, not expecting any significant progress after 25 draft
let's hope things can start to go right for the Flyers. It's hard to be positive given all the things that have gone wrong with this franchise. It seems like they are jinxed – Nolan Patrick, Cutter, Carter Hart, the Couts injury after signing him to a long-term contract. And the problem is Hextall was rebuilding in 2014. So really this has been going on forever. At best you can say give Briere a chance, but there a plenty of reasons to be skeptical.
I think you guys are spot on with that Hart chatter. There are unsubstantiated rumors that the charges will be dropped.
There is a bit of potential in future draft, it will take years to see full potential of guys from future draft. Most likely we will not get anyone close to Mitch anytime soon. Supposedly 2025 was about strong center picks but now stories are mixed. Below draft list for last 5 years, just to watch it and think what happend in the past
In 2020, the Flyers made 5 selections, focusing on forwards and defensemen:
1st round, 23rd overall: Tyson Foerster (RW)
2nd round, 54th overall: Emil Andrae (D)
4th round, 94th overall: Zayde Wisdom (RW)
5th round, 135th overall: Elliot Desnoyers (LW)
6th round, 178th overall: Connor McClennon (RW)
2021 Draft Picks
In 2021, the Flyers selected 6 players, including a goaltender and several defensemen:
2nd round, 46th overall: Samu Tuomaala (RW)
3rd round, 78th overall: Aleksei Kolosov (G)
4th round, 110th overall: Brian Zanetti (D)
5th round, 158th overall: Ty Murchison (D)
6th round, 174th overall: Ethan Samson (D)
7th round, 206th overall: Owen McLaughlin (C)
2022 Draft Picks
The 2022 draft saw 6 picks, with a strong first-round selection and additional depth players:
1st round, 5th overall: Cutter Gauthier (LW)
3rd round, 69th overall: Devin Kaplan (RW)
5th round, 133rd overall: Alex Bump (LW)
6th round, 165th overall: Hunter McDonald (D)
7th round, 197th overall: Santeri Sulku (LW)
7th round, 220th overall: Alexis Gendron (RW)
2023 Draft Picks
In 2023, the Flyers had 10 picks, the highest in this period, including two first-round selections:
1st round, 7th overall: Matvei Michkov (F)
1st round, 22nd overall: Oliver Bonk (D)
2nd round, 51st overall: Carson Bjarnason (G)
3rd round, 87th overall: Yegor Zavragin (G)
3rd round, 95th overall: Denver Barkey (F)
4th round, 103rd overall: Cole Knuble (F)
4th round, 120th overall: Alex Ciernik (F)
5th round, 135th overall: Carter Sotheran (D)
6th round, 172nd overall: Ryan MacPherson (F)
7th round, 199th overall: Matteo Mann (D)
2024 Draft Picks
In 2024, the Flyers selected 7 players, with a focus on forwards and defensemen:
1st round, 13th overall: Jett Luchanko (F)
2nd round, 51st overall: Jack Berglund (F)
2nd round, 59th overall: Spencer Gill (D)
4th round, 107th overall: Heikki Ruohonen (F)
5th round, 148th overall: Noah Powell (F)
6th round, 173rd overall: Ilya Pautov (F)
7th round, 205th overall: Austin Moline (D)
I’m so excited to see what they do with all these picks, but bottom line they desperately need to nail them.
About the rebuild, Jack is Spot On. last year was a booby trap #buckelup