Philadelphia Flyers 2024-25 State of the Franchise: Time to learn just how close the Flyers are to turning the corner

Where do the Philadelphia Flyers stand entering the 2024-25 season? It's not even clear the Philadelphia Flyers themselves know.
That's not to say that the organization's guiding philosophy has changed. They're still very much in rebuild mode -- the rebuild that they officially kicked off by publicly acknowledging its necessity in the wake of Chuck Fletcher and Dave Scott's exits at the end of 2022-23.
It's just that now, the NHL club has the potential to make a very strong case that the rebuild should be a short one.
The Flyers were one of the NHL's biggest pleasant surprises in 2023-24 -- a greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts team that played smart, fast, and hard-working hockey. As a result...