The Philadelphia Flyers are heading into a team-shaping 2025 NHL Draft. Could acquiring Trevor Zegras earlier change their plans?
Before this week, it seemed as if the Philadelphia Flyers were going to have one mission entering the 2025 NHL Entry Draft: stockpile center after center.
With seven picks in the first two rounds at the time, there was no doubt that at least four of those selections were going to be used on players who have at least a chance at developing into an NHL center. But the hockey world is always moving, and GM Daniel Briere felt as if there was an opportunity to acquire a depressed asset, (in this case, that may have been literal) and pounced.