Another June 23 and another momumental piece of Flyers history has been added to this date. Matvei Michkov looks like he’s officially done with SKA St. Petersburg of the KHL and is heading to the Philadelphia Flyers two years earlier than expected.
The general consensus is that the plan for rebuilding would not change regardless of if or when Michkov arrived to join the Flyers. It’s clear now though Michkov is definitely on his way. And although it most likely won’t be this July 1 with the amount of dead money the team still on the books, the Flyers today essentially have opened their door a whole lot wider in alluring future top-talent unrestricted free agents, something that hasn’t been said seriously in well over a decade.