This certainly is a busy time of year for the Flyers and their fans alike. With the craziness of the draft now over and done with, and the potentially lively day of the opening of free agency on the horizon, the Flyers have announced that they’ll be jumping right into their annual Development Camp to close out a frenetic week.
Development Camp will open with its first day of on-ice sessions on Wednesday July 2, and will carry into Thursday. We’ll then see a nice little day off for the Fourth of July on Friday, and then things will resume for both days of the weekend. The complete schedule is below:
| DATE | TEAM | DEFENSE/FORWARDS | FULL TEAM |
| Wed., July 2 | JonesBriere | 8:30-9:15 a.m.10:45-11:30 a.m. | 9:30-10:30 a.m.11:45-12:45 a.m. |
| Thurs., July 3 | BriereJones | 8:30-9:15 a.m.10:45-11:30 a.m. | 9:30-10:30 a.m.11:45-12:45 a.m. |
| Fri., July 4 | NO | ON | ICE |
| Sat., July 5 | BriereJones | 8:30-9:15 a.m.9:30-10:15 a.m. | 1:30 p.m.(both teams) |
| Sun., July 6 | 5-on-5 Scrimmage | 6:00 p.m. |
Because of the volume of skaters being brought in again this year, we’ll see the players split up into groups through the first three days, to keep things a little more manageable, when the focus will be drill-style activities. But on Sunday, though, we’ll see the groups all coming together again for a 5-on-5 tournament to close out the camp, which is always a fun one. All sessions will be, as always, free and open to the public.
The Flyers will be bringing a pretty loaded group to the ice this time around. Most excitingly, this will be fans’ first opportunity to get eyes on members of this most recent draft class, headlined by first round picks Porter Martone and Jack Nesbitt, as well as some of the second round steals in Jack Murtagh and Shane Vansaghi (but not Carter Amico, who’s still working his way back from the knee injury). We want to keep expectations reasonable for their very first development camp (which is taking place after an already pretty whirlwind weekend), but it will be nice to get an introduction, all the same.
It will also be a good chance to check in with some of the development camp returnees, like Jett Luchanko and Alex Bump, fresh off of their AHL debuts, as well as Denver Barkey, Oliver Bonk, and Carson Bjarnason, as they head into theirs.
Whoever you’re there to see, it’s bound to be a nice bit of action (and a little more hockey to sustain us as we get deep into summer).
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