The Philadelphia Flyers were lucky when it came to injuries last season. Their Injured Reserve list was a blank sheet, left for depth players to get the odd bump and miss a few games. The group of top-six forwards was left relatively unscathed and because of that, their lines remained somewhat solid throughout one of the best campaigns in recent memory.
Because that group of forwards had their status within the team unquestioned game-to-game, there was limited opportunity to get a really good sense at some depth organization players. It’s not an unfortunate circumstance — the better players got to play more, that’s pretty good — but those curious to see what lesser known forwards were able to do with a larger role, were left wondering.