Flyers’ top prospects will be on display at development camp beginning Thursday
The Flyers' development camp will feature their eight recent draft picks, along with highly touted prospects like Morgan Frost, Carter Hart and Phil Myers.
The Flyers will have 33 players, including the eight draft picks selected last weekend in Dallas, at their development camp in Voorhees.
The on-ice portion of the five-day camp begins Thursday at the Skate Zone in Voorhees and runs until Monday. The camp is free for fans to attend.
Left winger Joel Farabee and center Jay O'Brien, forwards drafted in the first round Friday, will be among the participants.
"Those guys and others will be coming to development camp for the first time, so for me and the rest of the organization, it's the first real hands-on look," coach Dave Hakstol said.
Goalies Carter Hart and Felix Sandstrom; forwards Morgan Frost, Wade Allison, German Rubtsov, Isaac Ratcliffe and Pascal Laberge; and defenseman Phil Myers are among the top prospects who will be at camp.
Hakstol said he is looking forward "to see the progress the guys have made from one year ago. … You can see it in them personally, you can see it on the ice, and that's how you start projecting where the players are at."
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Camp gets underway following Wednesday's Trial on the Isle in Stone Harbor, N.J. This year's event features a hockey clinic for kids at Stone Harbor Elementary School at 12:30 p.m., a prospect autograph session at the school at 1:15 p.m. and a beach volleyball tournament against the U.S. Coast Guard at the 95th Street beach at 3:30 p.m.
The on-ice portion of the Voorhees camp will have the following ice times on Thursday afternoon: 1:15-2:30 and 3:30-4:45 for skaters, and 12:15-1:30 and 3:45-4:30 for goalies.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday will operate with mostly the same schedule, with different groups of skaters taking the ice for morning practice sessions that start at 9:15 and 10:45, and afternoon sessions that start at 5:30 and 5:45. Ice slots for goaltenders are scheduled at 8 and 9:30 a.m. and 12:45 and 2 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and at 9:15 and 10:45 a.m. on Sunday.
The on-ice portion of the camp will conclude with a three-on-three tournament at 1 p.m. Monday.
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Bernie Parent, Johnny Gaudreau hosting events
Flyers legend Bernie Parent and Calgary Flames star Johnny Gaudreau, a South Jersey native, will be hold fishing and golf tournaments, respectively, next month.
Parent, a Hall of Fame goaltender, will host the inaugural Snider Hockey In-Shore Fishing Challenge at the Canyon Club Marina in Cape May on Friday, July 20.
He is calling it a BYOB event – bring your own boat. A minimum $1,000 donation to Snider Hockey enables a fishing team to have unlimited participants. All entrants can attend the captains' breakfast and post-event, poolside chicken barbecue.
To reserve a boat or sponsor the competition, call Katy Bowers at 215-952-4157 or email her at kbowers@sniderhockey.org.
Gaudreau will host the third annual Johnny Gaudreau Scholarship Golf Tournament to benefit the scholarship fund at Gloucester Catholic High School, which Gaudreau attended.
The tourney will be held Friday, July 27 at the Blue Heron Pines Golf Club in Egg Harbor City. Flyers defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere is one of the celebrities participating.
An online auction of memorabilia items – and chance to play golf with one of the many celebrities – may be found here. For golf info, go here.
Morin signs
The Flyers officially signed defenseman Samuel Morin to a three-year deal Monday that will have an annual $700,000 cap hit.
Limited to just 15 games with the Phantoms and two with the Flyers last season because of injuries, Morin isn't expected to be ready to play until February because he is coming off knee surgery.
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Development camp roster
FORWARDS
No. Player Pos. Ht. Wt.
80 Wade Allison RW 6-2 205
82 Connor Bunnaman C 6-1 207
60 Joel Farabee LW 6-0 164
68 Morgan Frost C/LW 5-11 172
58 Gavin Hain LW 5-11 194
75 Pascal Laberge RW/C 6-1 174
85 Tanner Laczynski C 6-1 190
70 Olle Lycksell C 5-10 163
62 Jay O'Brien C 5-11 176
76 Isaac Ratcliffe LW 6-5 205
63 German Rubtsov C 6-0 187
78 Matthew Strome LW 6-3 201
64 Maksim Sushko RW 6-0 179
81 Carsen Twarynski LW 6-2 201
46 Mikhail Vorobyev C 6-2 207
57 Marcus Westfalt C 6-3 203
DEFENSEMEN
83 David Bernhardt 6-3 191
71 Noah Cates 6-1 179
77 James De Haas 6-4 209
72 David Drake 6-4 181
59 Mark Friedman 5-10 191
74 Adam Ginning 6-3 196
84 Linus Hogberg 6-0 176
73 Wyatt Kalynuk 6-1 174
61 Phil Myers 6-5 209
90 Jack St. Ivany 6-3 198
86 Wyatte Wylie 6-1 192
GOALTENDERS
66 Samuel Ersson 6-2 180
65 Ivan Fedotov 6-7 205
79 Carter Hart 6-1 177
49 Felix Sandstrom 6-2 192
69 Matej Tomek 6-3 180
67 Kirill Ustimenko 6-3 179