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Bailey’s Daily: Michkov Makes Flyers History; Tristan Jarry Trade Looming?
In Friday’s edition of Bailey’s Daily, we’ll be talking the latest Philadelphia Flyers news, NHL news, stories, highlights, and more from the last day.
Flyers News
Despite the brutal 6-3 loss to the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night, Philadelphia Flyers rookie star Matvei Michkov put his name next to Eric Lindros in the history books in Philadelphia.
With a goal and an assist against the Capitals, Michkov became the first Flyers teenager since James van Riemsdyk to score seven or more points in his first seven games in the NHL.
Other players to have accomplished that feat for the Flyers include Lindros, Peter Zezel, and Rich Sutter.
NHL Central Scouting released its preliminary 2025 NHL Draft rankings on Wednesday, giving 24 players an ‘A’ grade and designating them as a potential first-round pick.
Given the fact that the Flyers are struggling, and the two teams whose first-round picks they own (Edmonton and Colorado) are also struggling, fans are starting to at least turn an eye towards the NHL Draft.
Rookie center Jett Luchanko was a good start, but he and Michkov desperately need a running mate with the elite skills that all the Stanley Cup contending teams have in their arsenals.
How about Michael Misa, who has 15 goals in his first 11 OHL games of the season?
In case you missed it, Michael Leighton, who helped bring the Flyers to the Stanley Cup Final in 2010, has been chosen to join the AHL Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2025.
NHL News
As it relates to Philadelphia and the Flyers, former goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who was infamously traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets for peanuts in 2012, became the 14th goalie in NHL history to reach the 400-win threshold, beating the New York Rangers 3-1 in Madison Square Garden on Thursday night.
Bobrovsky has done pretty well for himself since leaving Philadelphia, racking up 358 regular season wins, winning the Vezina Trophy twice, and bringing the Florida Panthers their first-ever Stanley Cup, making 23 saves on 24 shots in Game 7 against Edmonton back on June 24.
Have you ever heard of a player holding out for a trade in the OHL?
That is exactly what San Jose Sharks prospect Quentin Musty is doing with the Sudbury Wolves, and Sharks GM Mike Grier is not too happy about it.
Musty has not played in a game in over three weeks, and with no end to the impasse in sight, Grier is starting to get into Musty’s agent’s ear about it.
This is becoming a trend these days, don’t you guys think?
Things are also getting ugly out in Pittsburgh, as the Pittsburgh Penguins have sent big-money goalie Tristan Jarry home from a road trip to… work on his form. He has not been out of action long enough to get a conditioning assignment in the AHL, so this situation is peculiar, to say the least.
Jarry, 29, just signed a five-year, $26.9 million contract last July, and no NHL general manager is going to touch that contract with a 10-foot pole as it is.
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Over the last 25 years the first pick in the NHL draft have come from a variety of different leagues:
OHL- 8…..QMJHL-5…..European Leagues- 5…..College -3……WHL -2……USHL -2
In 2017 the Devils passed on Nolan Patrick out of the WHL and took Nico Hischier as the first pick out of the ‘Q”…Flyers picked second.
The rest is history, as they say…
Yes, the hapless Flyers’ GM Ron Hextall did indeed pick second in that 2017 draft, and DID NOT select Norris Trophy winner and future Hall of Fame defenseman Cale Makar, an utterly horrific mistake that will haunt them forever.
5.38 million for five years as the savior GM of the Pens gives out another albatross contract to Jarry. Of course this is just a little bit worse than the contracts given to TK, Coots and Tippett.