{"id":1741,"date":"2026-06-29T10:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:10:21","slug":"at-first-glance-the-flyers-2026-draft-feels-underwhelming-only-time-will-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1741","title":{"rendered":"At first glance, the Flyers\u2019 2026 draft feels underwhelming. Only time will tell."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>ATLANTIC CITY \u2014 You can be overwhelmed. You can be underwhelmed. Can you ever be just whelmed?<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1739\">The divide between Pa.\u2019s public and private high school sports<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Because that\u2019s the feelings after the Flyers\u2019 2026 draft. It doesn\u2019t feel fantastic. It doesn\u2019t feel terrible. It just feels &#8230; there.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Is that what was conveyed by assistant general manager Brent Flahr, speaking after they wrapped things up?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis draft, I\u2019ll be honest with you, there\u2019s layers, and especially early on, our layers got cleaned out quickly. And I\u2019ve never seen it like that before,\u201d he said. \u201cEven as the draft went along, but we were able to move back in the first, and then we\u2019re able to move around and get players we\u2019re happy with, so it worked out fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s it. It was fine.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s too early to tell where this draft will land because 99% of the time, players need time to develop and grow. And there may have been something in the air because while the gambling floor of the Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino had people testing their luck with the press of a button on a slot machine, on each spin of the roulette wheel, and every roll of the dice, that appears to have permeated upstairs to the Flyers\u2019 draft room as they selected their next generation in the 2026 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The Black and Orange opted for long-term wait-and-see projects. (They love projects, don\u2019t they?) And, to be fair, they have some time with the past few draft classes finally bearing fruit.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Maksim Sokolovskii, the Flyers\u2019 first-rounder who Flahr called \u201ca unicorn,\u201d is a big, mean defenseman who needs to continue building his defensive game while also trying to add some   offense. Goalies Martin Psohlavec and Marek Skleni\u010dka looked great at the U18s for Czechia \u2014 another Flyers trademark \u2014 but are still raw. And second-rounder Brek Liske, probably the best story of the draft, just for the fact that his dad is a diehard Flyers fan, has a solid foundation, but does have to work on his skating \u2014 where have we heard that before?<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1737\">An early morning shooting at a West Philadelphia bar left one worker dead<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Center KJ Sauer missed most of this past season after tearing his posterior cruciate ligament the year prior and  compared his style of play to that of Brady Tkachuk.  Flahr said last week the Flyers could add a small, dynamic defenseman \u2014 but in the later rounds \u2014 and they got Max Laatikainen, a small Finnish defenseman they are hoping still can grow.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Whether they actually see an NHL game is truly a crapshoot anyway. But that\u2019s always the case. In 2020, DobberProspects did a study showing that 60 NHL players from a draft class eventually make it to the NHL, which is less than 27%. TSN director of scouting Craig Button recently told NBC Sports Philadelphia that \u201capproximately 45 players from any draft will play 350 games or more in the NHL.\u201d That\u2019s not a whole lot.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Entering this draft, since Flahr has been at the helm, the Flyers have drafted 50 players. Not counting the two previous classes, although Porter Martone and Jett Luchanko have already played NHL games, 44% have played at least one NHL game. Will this class make it? Who knows.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Now it does feel like they stayed the course and went down the path of previous drafts with a slight twist. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>They again drafted for size \u2014 even though Flahr said Saturday it wasn\u2019t a focus \u2014 with only Laatikainen of the six picks under 6 feet. In the process, they left players like dynamic but risky small defensemen Ryan Lin, Tommy Bleyl, and Xavier Villeneuve on the table in the first round  and talented forwards like the Ruck Twins, Jack Hextall, J.P. Hurlbert and  Brooks Rogowski.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But Flahr and general manager Danny Bri\u00e8re did stress that players drafted today will not help the team in the near future \u2014 so drafting a power-play specialist would not have made the atrocious power play better in the here and now \u2014 and they needed goaltending and defensive depth.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=1735\">Phillies won\u2019t rush Andrew Painter\u2019s return to majors. Instead, it\u2019s about \u2018getting himself\u2019 right.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>It just felt like maybe there were better options? <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But who is to know today what tomorrow brings?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flyers stuck to their usual script of prioritizing size and two-way responsibility over offensive flash. 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