Since I mentioned him in my recent article about Morgan Frost’s chances to make the Flyers next year, you know I just had to write an article about the one and only Isaac Ratcliffe! If there’s any other prospect I’m incredibly optimistic about, it would have to be Ratcliffe. He’s my favorite forward in the Flyers prospect pool not named Morgan Frost or Joel Farabee, and I think he has potential to be one of the most dominant goal-scorers in the NHL eventually. So, as we did with Frost, let’s examine Ratcliffe’s case for making the Flyers for 2019-20:
For: He is definitely NHL-built
One of the potential knocks against Frost was his size, and there are concerns (whether legitimate or not) that he won’t be NHL ready.