Once, not that long ago really, the Flyers were such a big team, that the National Hockey League sort of looked the other way when players grabbed a hold of Eric Lindros, John LeClair, Keith Primeau or even Mikael Renberg as they motored through mid-ice or cycled endlessly in the offensive zone.
But that was then and this is now, and these days the Flyers are among the NHL’s smallest. According to James Mirtle’s annual ranking of teams by size and weight, the Flyers were the shortest, and the third lightest in the entire league when the 2016-2017 season began.