The Philadelphia Flyers put themselves at the center of online controversy during the first round of the 2024 NHL Draft, and now they explained their reasoning hours later.
As the Flyers held the 12th-overall pick in their hands, players started to get selected one-by-one and fans started to get a little anxious. Players that were projected to go much higher, began to slip — just like what happens every single year — and then it suddenly becomes a real possibility that the Flyers could be selecting a player that should have been taken much earlier. It happened with Matvei Michkov and we have seen how that turned out.