Quick Hits: August 17, 2021
1) The Flyers will hold their 2021 Development Camp at the team training center in Voorhees from August 28 to September 1. Seventeen forwards, 10 defensemen and two goaltenders are slated to attend. Power forward Zayde Wisdom, the team's fourth-round pick in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft is on the attendance roster but will not participate on the ice after recently undergoing shoulder surgery. There are five unaffiliated invitees on the roster; three forwards and two defensemen. The camp roster is as follows:
FORWARDS Wade Allison Jon-Randall Avon (camp invitee) Ethan Burroughs (camp invitee) Jackson Cates Elliot Desnoyers Tyson Foerster Morgan Frost Tanner Laczynski Owen McLaughlin Connor McLennon Isaac Ratcliffe Nolan Ritchie (camp invitee) Linus Sandin Matthew Strome Maksim Sushko Samu Tuomaala Zayde Wisdom
DEFENSEMEN Linus Högberg Mason Millman Ethan Samson Quinn Schmiemann (camp invitee) Jackson van de Leest (camp invitee) Wyatte Wylie Cam York Egor Zamula Brian Zanetti Cooper Zech
GOALIES Samuel Ersson Kirill Ustimenko
2)The Flyers have hired Rick Bronwell, formerly with the Minnesota Wild, as the team's new head equipment manager. Bronwell has 25 years of pro hockey experience, including NHL equipment manager stints with the San Jose Sharks and a decade with the Wild. Twenty years ago, he was the equipment manager for the ECHL's now-defunct Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies (today the Adirondack Thunder).
3) August 17 Flyers Alumni birthdays: Pete Peeters (1957), Drew Callander (1956).