*It’s been a busy few days around here, with the Flyers opening up their regular season on the road down in Sunrise on Thursday, and came away with a tough loss, all things considered. [PHLY]
*It certainly wasn’t all bad news coming out of that loss, though. After getting back up to speed nicely in the preseason, Noah Cates’ line showed up in a big way for the Flyers in the opener. [BSH]
*It may still only be early in the season, but Jamie Drysdale has certainly made a strong first impression on his new head coach, and he sees a lot of interesting and familiar potential in his blueliner. [BSH]
*The Flyers wrapped up their road trip with a matchup against the Hurricanes on Saturday, and it was certainly an exciting game, even if it didn’t go quite the way they may have hoped. [BSH]
*That overturned goal in overtime was a real gut punch for the Flyers, that’s for sure. [NBCSP]
*Charlie has his own observations on the game, live from Raleigh. [PHLY]
*Bobby Brink stepped up as a huge contributor for them in that loss (even with one goal wiped off the board). [Inquirer]
*That game also saw Nikita Grebenkin make his true Flyers debut, and while he spent most of the game playing down in the lineup, he still managed to make a strong first impression. [BSH]
*It hasn’t been a perfect first pair of games, but the Flyers are still working to build towards something a little more polished and complete. [Inquirer]
*The Phantoms also kicked off their regular season this weekend, and the expectations for the prospects in their lineup are many and they are varied. [PHLY]
*It’s a young team, to be sure, but that youth movement arriving should mean for good news for the Flyers. [BSH]
*It was a big back-to-back weekend for the Phantoms, and they started off with a bang with a win in their opener, and a huge individual effort from Devin Kaplan. [BSH]
*The second game of the weekend, though, wasn’t so kind to them. [BSH]
*But hey! Sunday also brought us some good Phantoms related news all the same — Emil Andrae was held out of the game, which seemed an odd call initially because of how great he looked on Saturday, but that’s because he was being called up to join the Flyers! [BSH]
*Elsewhere in the organization, it was a pretty eventful weekend for some of the Flyers’ top prospects playing in the NCAA. For starters, Porter Martone had himself a pretty solid weekend for his first regular season series with MSU. [BSH]
*And then back in the Hockey East, Jack Murtagh picked up his first collegiate goal on Saturday against Colgate. [BSH]
*And finally, we’ll close this thing out by highlighting some of the Flyers’ top performances of the week. [BSH]
