It was a funny week in the Philadelphia Flyers’ world. One moment we’re hypothesizing which current members of the roster are most likely to be traded by this rebuilding hockey club, and the next we’re suddenly potentially getting the best prospect the team has ever had in decades two years before expected.
Matvei Michkov can come to Philadelphia as early as this summer and start his NHL career in just a handful of months from now. That feels insane to think about considering we were roadmapping the journey to the eventual arrival of the Russian phenom for the 2026-27 season — to then have rumors pop up about SKA St.