Weekly Buzz: The Dog Days Of Summer For The Flyers – Broad Street Buzz

This week’s serving of Broad Street Buzz content you might have missed.

We began the week with another prospect list, ranking the Top 5 defensemen currently in the Philadelphia Flyers system.

The week-long 2019 World Junior Summer Showcase kicked off, and some of the Flyers prospects participating in the event got off to great starts.

A few Flyers players didn’t perform well during the 2018-19 season, so we looked at which of them could rebound in 2019-20.

Restricted Free Agent defenseman Ivan Provorov still remains without a contract at the time this article was written, and we speculated on what he could potentially receive from Philadelphia in his new deal.

It’s possible that General Manager Chuck Fletcher played his cards too early and prevented the Flyers from making smarter moves this offseason.

Gritty and Flyers Captain Claude Giroux have an outstanding friendship together which should keep on getting stronger as time goes on.

Forward prospect Joel Farabee impressed in more ways than one as the World Junior Summer Showcase continued to roll along.

The Flyers finally handed out jersey numbers to some of their new acquisitions, so you can now comfortably buy 50 Justin Braun and Tyler Pitlick jerseys for your friends and family.

Morgan Frost, along with Farabee and others, will likely have an opportunity to crack the Flyers roster out of camp and here’s what he’ll need to do to set himself apart from the pack.

Our newest writer Wyatt Long broke down which Flyers players could have breakout campaigns for the team this upcoming season.

Almost every team in the Metro got better on paper, so where do the Flyers rank among them with training camp about a month away?

The Lehigh Valley Phantoms will be flushed with prospects in 2019-20, and a couple of them should have standout years in the Valley.

Every Philadelphia prospect that took part in the WJSS showed flashes of brilliance during the exhibition tournament.

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August has arrived, meaning we’ve entered the dogs days of summer. The Flyers still have moves to make in re-signing Provorov and Travis Konecny, so it shouldn’t be a completely quiet month for the Orange and Black.

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