With 34 players taken in his first four years as the team’s general manager, Ron Hextall had done a pretty good job of restocking the pipeline with plenty of talent before this year’s Entry Draft. Outside of Samuel Morin, however, the Philadelphia Flyers didn’t have many stay-at-home defensemen in the prospect pool. David Drake is still a part of the organization, as he has an AHL deal with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, but it isn’t a guarantee he ever sees NHL action. After taking a pair of forwards in the first round of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, Hextall addressed this issue by taking Adam Ginning, a Swedish left-handed d-man.
The Flyers’ 2018 draft class: Adam Ginning
