I’ve been chronicling my top five list of the greatest European Flyers of all time — talking about their time with the Flyers, career legacy, and what might have been. It was tough to narrow it down to five, and there are plenty of (very) honorable mentions.
We now approach the final place on the list of the greatest Flyers from Europe. However, for today’s article, I will not write about one player, but two.
# 1 Pelle Eklund and Ilkka Sinisalo
When I was planning out this series of articles, looking back on the plethora of European talent that has graced Philadelphia, I just couldn’t separate Eklund and Sinisalo in Flyers history.