Throughout the 2018-19 season, both here on HockeyBuzz and via the Philadelphia Flyers website and Flyers Radio 24/7 as well as social media -- I will track the progress of Flyers' prospects in junior and collegiate hockey as well as the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
As anyone who follows prospects and NHL Draft candidates can attest, it's a massive undertaking to track multiple leagues simultaneously, even in terms of keeping track of who is playing on a given night. Each year, I create a daily calendar of games of interest.
This coming season, the Flyers only have five prospects in the CHL (four in the Ontario Hockey League and one in the Western Hockey League); none of whom play in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. On the flip side, a record number of Flyers prospects will play U.S. collegiate hockey in 2018-19.
I got a big assist from Matt Kardos, who was referred to me by Bill Clement, in pulling together all of the related schedule links for my use. He saved me a lot of online legwork to collect all the links I needed to pull together the schedules for each team. I figured that the one-stop collection of schedule links may also be of interest to some readers.
Note: I did not include a schedule for Russian goalie Kirill Ustimenko (Dinamo St. Petersburg) because it is undetermined how much, if any, time he spends this season with the parent team in the VHL (Russian minor league) and how often he will dress for the junior team in the VHL. Likewise, goalie Ivan Fedotov could see time as a VHL starter for Toros Neftekamsk or a KHL backup for Salavat Yulaev Ufa. Lastly, 24-year-old Severstal Cherepovets (KHL) defenseman Valeri Vasiliev's NHL rights technically still belong to the Flyers, who drafted him in 2012) but he is unlikely to ever be signed.
AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE Lehigh Valley Phantoms: Carter Hart, Philippe Myers, German Rubtsov, Mikhail Vorobyev, Pascal Laberge, Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Mike Vecchione, Mark Friedman, David Kase, Danick Martel, Connor Bunnaman, Alex Lyon, Anthony Stolarz, Reece Willcox, Cole Bardreau, Tyrell Goulbourne, Carsen Twarynski, Radel Fazleev.
ECHL Reading Royals: May have a Flyers entry-level contracted player or two on the roster at some juncture.
ONTARIO HOCKEY LEAGUE Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds: Morgan Frost Guelph Storm: Isaac Ratcliffe Hamilton Bulldogs: Matthew Strome Owen Sound Attack: Maksim Sushko
WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE Everett Silvertips: Wyatte Wylie
NCAA Western Michigan: Wade Allison Ohio State: Tanner Laczynski Boston Unversity: Joel Farabee Providence College: Jay O'Brien Minnesota Duluth: Noah Cates North Dakota: Gavin Hain Wisconsin: Wyatt Kalynuk Yale: Jack St. Ivany Nebraska-Omaha: Matej Tomek Michigan: Brendan Warren
SHL (Sweden) Linköpings HC: Olle Lycksell, Adam Ginning HV71: Felix Sandström Và¤xjo Lakers: Linus Högberg Brynà¤s IF: Marcus Westfà¤lt Djurgà¥rdens IF: David Berhardt
Allsvenskan (Sweden, lower division) Và¤sterà¥s: Samuel Ersson