For the longest time, the crease in Philadelphia was being turned over more than an unwanted Christmas gift. Robert Esche, Brian Boucher, Michael Leighton, Steve Mason, even short-timers like Rob Zepp and Cal Heeter saw time in net for the Flyers.
Those days seem to be over, hopefully.
However, we now enter a period in time where that same uncertainty in net for the Philadelphia Flyers is trickling down to their minor league affiliate in the AHL, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. After the dust settled on General Manager Chuck Fletcher’s first offseason at the helm, the Phantoms have four eligible netminders that could man the crease.