It’s beginning to look a lot like hockey season in the Delaware Valley, as the Philadelphia Flyers have revealed their Training Camp roster and schedule ahead of the 2024-25 campaign.
Training camp kicks off on Thursday, September 19th at Flyers Training Center in Voorhees, New Jersey and will run for exactly two weeks through Thursday, October 3rd. Training camp will also feature seven preseason games for the Flyers, beginning on Sunday, September 22nd against the Washington Capitals.
32 forwards, 20 defensemen, and 6 goaltenders will be in attendance at camp.
2024 FLYERS TRAINING CAMP ROSTER
FORWARDS
#10 Bobby Brink
#11 Travis Konecny
#14 Sean Couturier
#15 Olle Lycksell
#17 Jett Luchanko
#18 Rodrigo Ābols
#19 Garnet Hathaway
#20 Cooper Marody
#21 Scott Laughton
#25 Ryan Poehling
#27 Noah Cates
#39 Matvei Michkov
#43 Oscar Eklind
#44 Nicolas Deslauriers
#46 Sawyer Boulton
#48 Morgan Frost
#49 Rhett Gardner
#56 Samu Tuomaala
#58 Nick Capone
#60 Zayde Wisdom
#62 Josh Zakreski
#63 Massimo Rizzo
#71 Tyson Foerster
#73 Elliot Desnoyers
#74 Owen Tippett
#78 Jacob Gaucher
#83 Matt Miller
#85 J-R Avon
#86 Joel Farabee
#90 Anthony Richard
#91 Brendan Furry
#92 Alexis Gendron
DEFENSEMEN
#3 Helge Grans
#5 Egor Zamula
#6 Travis Sanheim
#8 Cam York
#9 Jamie Drysdale
#13 Adam Ginning
#23 Ronnie Attard
#24 Nick Seeler
#36 Emil Andrae
#37 Louie Belpedio
#41 Hunter McDonald
#42 Spencer Gill
#55 Rasmus Ristolainen
#59 Oliver Bonk
#61 Emile Chouinard
#65 Carter Sotheran
#67 Sam Sedley
#75 Ethan Samson
#76 Matteo Mann
#77 Erik Johnson
GOALTENDERS
#32 Eetu Mäkiniemi
#33 Sam Ersson
#34 Sam Hillebrandt
#40 Cal Petersen
#64 Carson Bjarnason
#82 Ivan Fedotov
Boulton, Capone, Furry, Gaucher, Miller, Chouinard, and Sedley are on AHL contracts with Lehigh Valley. Mäkiniemi is on a Professional Tryout agreement, and Hillebrandt and Zakreski are on Amateur Tryout agreements.
Some notable omissions from the roster are forward Denver Barkey and goaltender Alexei Kolosov. Barkey has missed all of Rookie Camp after he dealt with a bout of mononucleosis, but he is regaining his strength and could be cleared for contact by the end of the week, and he should be ready for his upcoming season with OHL London.
Kolosov has yet to return to North America after going back to his native Belarus after being unhappy with the Phantoms last season. Flyers General Manager Daniel Brière spoke on the situation on Tuesday morning.
“I guess we can still hope he decides to show up at some point if he wants to play hockey. We hope that he changes his mind and decides to come, but it’s not looking like it at this point. It is what it is, we have to move on. We hope that he would want to compete for a job. When you look at the way we’re built right now, there’s an opportunity there for him to, the way we saw it, is probably start in the American [Hockey] League. Most teams around the league use their third goalie or fourth goalie so he’d be in a competition with the guys that we have to play some games this year. I think on his end it’s more about he wants to be guaranteed a spot in the NHL. If not, he prefers to stay over there and that’s not the way we see it.”
The next two weeks will be interesting to look at as young prospects like Jett Luchanko and Matvei Michkov will try to make their mark with the veterans of the team like Travis Konecny, Sean Couturier, and Scott Laughton, among others as the Flyers trim their roster down ahead of their season opener on October 11th against the Vancouver Canucks.
