The Flyers are set to start training camp Friday morning in Voorhees, and expectations are much higher than at this time last season.
Some of the optimism is because the Flyers, who lost to the Penguins in the opening round of last season’s playoffs, have a good mix of blossoming young players and proven veterans.
Some of it is because the Flyers had the league’s fifth-most points from Dec. 4 to the end of the regular season in 2017-18.
And some of it is because they signed high-scoring left winger James van Riemsdyk, who is back for his second stint with the Flyers.