Resetting the Flyers’ future: Which prospects beyond Porter Martone and draft picks are on the way?

A youth movement is slowly descending on Philly.

Eight players 25 or under are currently with the Flyers, with the injured Tyson Foerster and several others waiting in the wings to join them. In all, 15 of the 23 players on the active roster are under 30, with Travis Sanheim aging out at the end of the month.

As the eighth-youngest team in the NHL (27.17), which rose slightly with the acquisition of 36-year-old Luke Glendening off waivers on Friday, the Flyers’ future is starting to come into focus.

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And it looks like the cupboard is stocked pretty well. The question is: will production from college hockey, juniors, the American Hockey League, and prospects playing abroad translate to the NHL?

Here’s a look at the Flyers’ top 10 prospects and what the team has coming down the pike in terms of future draft picks.

Martone, 19, has come as advertised. Despite the Flyers needing a center, they opted for the winger with the No. 6 overall pick last June, and Martone has rewarded that call by establishing himself as one of the game’s top prospects. Listed at 6-foot-3, 210 pounds, Martone brings size, strength, a big-time shot, playmaking, and, as seen with Michigan State, an edge. He has 23 goals and 46 points in 32 games for the Spartans and notched six goals and nine points while captaining the bronze-medal-winning Canadians at the 2026 World Juniors. He is expected to sign an entry-level contract at the end of his college season.

It took just 26 games into his pro career for the 20-year-old to find himself in the NHL. A third-rounder in 2023, the 5-10, 171-pound Barkey has shown to be a winger with a relentless motor, a high hockey IQ, and a polished 200-foot game. He has three goals and 11 points in 29 games, notching his first two assists at Madison Square Garden in his NHL debut and his first goal against the Edmonton Oilers. Captain of last year’s Memorial Cup-winning London Knights, Barkey has recently found chemistry with fellow youngster Matvei Michkov.

Bump, 22, earned a call-up on Saturday from Lehigh Valley of the American Hockey League after returning from injury and scoring four goals in eight games. In his NHL debut, he showed off immense growth in terms of his wall play and strength on the puck, and used his noted quick release to score his first career goal. A fifth-round pick in 2022, Bump had 26 points (11 goals, 15 assists) in 36 games for Lehigh Valley, and has a goal and an assist in three games since being recalled.

After helping Barkey and London win the Memorial Cup in early June, it’s been a rough start to Bonk’s pro career; however, things are starting to move in the right direction. The 21-year-old blueliner has four goals and 14 points in 31 games with Lehigh Valley after missing almost three months due to injury. “I think his game’s coming along awesome,” Phantoms coach John Snowden recently told The Inquirer. “I think he’s doing so many great things, and we’re seeing the reason why he was a first-round pick.” Bonk got a few practice days in with the Flyers during the Olympic break and responded well to tests from assistant coach Todd Reirden regarding his pace of play. There’s a chance the 6-2, 185-pound right-shot defenseman could get a call-up soon, with it looking more and more like the Flyers will be playing out the string.

Selected 13th overall in 2024, the 19-year-old has twice broken camp with the Flyers, skating four games each time, but hasn’t stuck. Known for his speed, vision, and hockey IQ, which were all highlighted during his AHL stint last year after his junior season ended, the team wants him to shoot more. But he has just seven goals across 38 games between the OHL’s Guelph and Brantford, where he was traded in November. He does have 36 assists, but he delivered a poor showing at World Juniors for Canada, recording one assist and a minus-4 rating.

The one player who has rocketed up the Flyers’ prospect rankings is Berglund. At just 19 years old, the center had 10 points (three goals, seven assists) in seven games as he captained Sweden to gold at World Juniors. He now plays for Färjestad BK in Sweden’s top league, and has four goals and nine points in 38 games. “I thought he was the best player at the World Junior Championship. … Again, it’s a 6-foot-5 center who is going to bring size and grit to our team down the road," Flyers general manager Danny Brière recently told The Inquirer. “So there’s a lot of possibilities, that’s the exciting part.”

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Acquired at the trade deadline from the Minnesota Wild for Bobby Brink, the 6-4, 204-pound blueliner is someone who has been on the Flyers’ radar for some time. A coveted right-shot with size, puck skills, and a booming shot, Jiříček is a bit of a project and has work to do on his skating and two-way game. He has 84 NHL games under his belt, but he has spent most of this season in the minors. In his third organization at 22, he made his Phantoms debut on Saturday, scoring a goal but also contributing to one against. The expectation is that he will get some NHL games before the end of the season, too.

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The 20-year-old goalie is not expected in Philly any time soon; he has one year left on a three-year Kontinental Hockey League deal signed in May 2024. Zavragin just rejoined SKA St. Petersburg, where he has a 5-7-0 record, 2.63 goals-against average, .919 save percentage, and one shutout. When deployed in the VHL, Russia’s second-highest league, he is 9-6-2 with a 1.40 GAA, .951 save percentage, and four shutouts this season.

The fourth member of the Flyers’ 2023 draft class to turn pro in North America, alongside Matvei Michkov, Bonk, and Barkey, the second-rounder has shown poise in net. Cool, calm, and collected, Bjarnason, 20, is 12-9-4 with a 3.35 GAA and .879 save percentage behind a Phantoms club that has had an up-and-down season. “It hasn’t been like every game’s been perfect and everything else, but it’s part of the process, and part of that learning will make him a better goalie at this level [in the NHL] to deal with things,” Flyers assistant general manager Alyn McCauley told The Inquirer about the 6-4, 205-pound goalie. “ … And I just, I like his approach, like the personality he has. He’s a likable [kid] … But game-time is game-time, and he reins it in, and he’s very focused.”

Another project, which the Flyers knew when they traded up to draft him this past June, Nesbitt is someone the organization believes can develop into a well-rounded 2C. The 19-year-old has 18 goals and 46 points in 49 games, with 15 of his points coming on the man advantage, for Windsor of the OHL. A big kid at 6-5, 185 pounds, Nesbitt still needs to fill out, but showed what he can bring at development camp as he drove to the net and created time and space. Nesbitt, who has won 57.7% of his faceoffs, has two-way potential and has also shown this season that he can be mean, as Brière pointed out. He was suspended for three games in November for fighting.

Others to watch: Defenseman Spencer Gill returned in February from an upper-body injury (two goals and nine points in 11 games for Blainville-Boisbriand of the QMJHL); center Heikki Ruohonen (six goals and 17 points in 25 games for Harvard); right wing Shane Vansaghi (three goals and 10 points in 32 games for Michigan State); defenseman Ty Murchison, who is out for the season with an upper-body injury (three NHL games, two goals and six points in 29 games with Phantoms; defenseman Hunter McDonald (six assists in 49 games for Phantoms); center Cole Knuble (nine goals and 31 points in 36 games for Notre Dame); winger Max Westergård (nine goals and 30 points in 20 games for Frölunda HC U20 in Sweden); center Nathan Quinn (32 goals and 69 points in 54 games for Quebec of QMJHL); defenseman Carter Amico (left Boston University and has one goal and seven points for Muskegon of the United States Hockey League); left wing Jack Murtagh (five goals and 10 points in 34 games for BU); center Matthew Gard (traded to Seattle and has 16 goals and 31 points overall in 50 games in the Western Hockey League); and defenseman Luke Vlooswyk (traded to Everett and has one goal and 11 points in 58 WHL games).

After a glut of picks in June 2025, the Flyers have just five picks in 2026. They own their picks in the first three rounds and the seventh round, but do not have any in the fourth or fifth rounds.

In the sixth round, they traded their own with Ryan Ellis’ contract to the San Jose Sharks for defensive prospect Artem Guryev and forward Carl Grundström. However, they had already acquired the Columbus Blue Jackets’ sixth-rounder for goalie Ivan Fedotov.

The Flyers have nine picks across six of the seven rounds, without a pick in the sixth round. They have one selection in each of the second, fourth, and fifth rounds.

First round: On paper, Philly has both its own pick, and the Toronto Maple Leafs’ selection as part of the Scott Laughton swap at the 2025 deadline.

But that Leafs pick is not guaranteed.

Toronto traded its first-round selection in 2026 to the Boston Bruins with center Fraser Minten and a 2025 fourth-rounder for defenseman Brandon Carlo. The first-rounder is top-five protected, and right now, if the season ended entering Tuesday, they would get the No. 7 pick. The draft lottery decides the order, and they could rise into the top five.

If the Leafs’ pick is in the top five this year, the Flyers’ No. 1 could slide to 2028 because, if the 2027 pick ends up in the top 10, the Leafs can then give it to Boston and give the Flyers an unprotected 2028 pick.

Third round: The Flyers have two picks, including the Los Angeles Kings’ selection that came over in the deal that sent Andrei Kuzmenko west last March.

The Flyers have their own and a pick from Los Angeles as part of the Kuzmenko deal.

Seventh round: The Flyers have their own pick and the one they acquired for Nic Deslauriers from the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday.

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