The current Philadelphia Flyers squad is set to be entrenched in a rebuild for a while, but how would some of the franchise’s legends fare in today’s game? I take a look at five unsung heroes who would adapt best to the NHL in the present-day. For this exercise, I won’t include players who are in the Hockey Hall of Fame, because that’s no fun.
It feels like forever ago that the Philadelphia Flyers were playing the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals. The Flyers lost that series in six games, and they spent much of the years following that playing whack-a-mole trying to fill the holes in their rosters.