If there’s one thing Chuck Fletcher has been able to do in his short tenure in the general manager role so far is chipping away at the team’s dead weight. This offseason, he’ll likely move on to bigger things, such as adding a top-six forward and/or a top-four defenseman.
However, that doesn’t mean the bottom of the forward corps doesn’t need to continue to be improved.
And that doesn’t mean that Phil Varone and Corban Knight haven’t performed admirably in their roles. Here’s a rundown of some of the fourth-liners that have plagued the Flyers’ fourth line in the past few years: Chris VandeVelde, Jori Lehtera, Dale Weise, Ryan White, Boyd Gordon, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare.