With four players — Samuel Morin, Alex Lyon, Pascal Laberge and Michal Neuvirth — unlikely to start the season on the active roster, this leaves six cuts left for the team to get to the required 23-man limit.
There are several intriguing decisions to be made, not the least of which is paring down a back-of-the-lineup competition involving established veterans and upstarts. Dale Weise, Jordan Weal and Jori Lehtera have faced still challenges for fourth-line/extra man roles by the younger players who continue to emerge from the Flyers system.
Mikhail Vorobyev, the 21-year-old Russian centerman who spent all of last season with the Phantoms, is vying for the third-line center spot.