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Charlie/Alex emails: With the 2025 NHL Draft looming, what should the Flyers do with their arsenal of early picks?

June 23, 2025

Jun 28, 2024; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Jett Luchanko is selected by the Philadelphia Flyers with the 13th overall pick in the first round of the 2024 NHL Draft at The Sphere. Mandatory Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports

In an article modeled after Zach Berman and Bo Wulf’s email series features, Charlie and Alex Appleyard trade emails regarding the looming NHL Draft and their thoughts on how the Flyers might approach it and should approach it. Here is the transcript:
Charlie: On Friday, barring some out-of-nowhere set of circumstances, the Philadelphia Flyers will be on the clock with their highest draft pick of the Daniel Briere era, at No. 6. For any organization, such a pick is an important event. For the Flyers, who seemingly have little interest in picking this high again? It could be franchise-defining.
The general assumption is that both of Matthew Schaefer (the presumptive No. 1 overall pick) and Mi...

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