When free agency opens Friday, Flyers general manager Ron Hextall won't have a lot of cap space to make a big splash.
Hextall is committed to building through the draft and, according to Craig Button, he did a spectacular job last weekend in Buffalo.
Button, the highly respected draft expert for TSN in Canada, gives the Flyers high marks for a draft in which they selected 10 players: seven forwards, two defensemen, and a goalie.
He was particularly enamored with the Flyers' first three picks: German Rubtsov, the two-way center from Russia whom Button says reminds him of former NHL star Butch Goring; Pascal Laberge, a tenacious right winger who combines speed with grit; and Carter Hall, a goalie Button calls their "steal of the draft.