The Flyers got a 3-1 win they needed in Vancouver. NBC Sports Philadelphia's cameras caught Matvei Michkov and Nick Seeler in a heated exchange on the bench. Twelve days after Seeler talked postgame about a "me, me, me" team, and named nobody, the tape is already sitting next to those comments. A fractured room, or a pulse? The people in it have not said.
Dylan Larkin will not waive for Philadelphia. So the reported plan is for the Flyers to help his trade happen anyway, ship out Owen Tippett, eat a contract, and walk away with a top prospect and a first-round pick. Clever. Also, completely unconfirmed.
Michkov leads the NHL in shooting percentage at 42.9 among skaters with 20 or more shots, and he is taking fewer shots each year, 2.5 a game as a rookie and 1.4 now. The Flyers need the goals. The sample is 15 games, and the finishing rate is nowhere near his first two seasons.
The Flyers own their 2027 first-round pick and, for now, Toronto's too. The cap room is projected, and one of the two numbers rests on a salary cap the league has only estimated.
