Philadelphia Flyers: Practicing to begin June 8th

With the NHL activating Phase 2, a few of the Flyers will begin trickling to the Voorhees Skate Zone on Monday.

The Philadelphia Flyers are returning to the ice on Monday, June 8. Well, at least a few of them. On Friday, Chuck Fletcher announced that the team will be opening their practice facility up for players to begin training.

Shayne Gostisbehere, Sean Couturier, Ivan Provorov and Samuel Morin are some of the players expected to join. Most will likely trickle in later as training camp approaches.

While six players doesn’t sound too interesting, the start of Phase 2 of the NHL’s plan is beginning. The sooner more players arrive, the sooner they can start gelling the way that they were before the league wide shut down.

There was no team hotter than the Philadelphia Flyers when playing halted nearly three months ago. Since the All-Star game, Philadelphia’s record was 14-4-1 which pushed them up the standings during the last two months that the league played.

Sometime in the middle of July or early August, the real return to action will begin with a 24 team playoff. Each conference will bring in the top 12 teams. Seeds one through four will receive a bye, but the Flyers will play a round robin competition with the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Washington Capitals to determine their seeding in the next round.

The remaining teams, seeds 5-12, in each conference will play in best-of-5 series. The Philadelphia Flyers end up in a great position. They get to warm up against the best teams in the conference, and they can only move up in the seeding.

It will obviously benefit the team to get more players to Skate Zone in Voorhees, New Jersey quickly. These guys have been apart since March, so this is like starting the next season. If you don’t remember, the Philadelphia Flyers started super slow this year.

We’re all excited to see the Flyers return to the ice, but the practices will be closed to the public. The NHL is taking all precautions to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Stay home and rest easy knowing that our team is preparing to win the Stanley Cup in a small town in Jersey.