What a busy Saturday! Just moments after bidding goodbye to Jakub Voracek and welcoming Cam Atkinson to the City of Brotherly Love, the Flyers were on the clock. After trading their first-round pick away in the Rasmus Ristolainen trade, this was to be their first pick of the Draft, making it that much more important.
They decided to pull the trigger on Finnish forward Samu Tuomaala, who spent last season with Kärpät of the Finnish Elite League.
Given the fact that COVID ripped through the Hockey world last year, players from the European leagues enter the Draft with heavier doses of tape available on them, given that the league’s pressed on while America was just beginning to feel the weight of the pandemic.