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Making sense of the fourth line carousel

In case you missed it, yesterday the Flyers made another roster move, sending German Rubtsov down to Lehigh Valley and recalling Mikhail Vorobyev. If you feel like you’re getting whiplash from trying to keep up with all of these prospects going up and down, this wouldn’t be unreasonable—this marks the fifth move the Flyers have made to shuffle players between their team and the AHL squad, and yes, that’s kind of a lot.

And in a way, this isn’t much of a surprise—Chuck Fletcher told us before the season started that he anticipated there being quite a bit of fluidity and movement of players between the Flyers and Phantoms to start the season, and he’s certainly delivered on this promise.