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NHL 15: Philly Flyers Regular Season Part 1(Year 5)

Taking breaks in-between seasons longer than any active TV show, it's the Philly Flyers GM Mode!

Finally, the Philly Flyers GM Mode returns to my blog. It's been about four months, but I've returned to this series ready to continue forward. When we left off, we'd just lost the Stanley Cup Finals to the Colorado Avs, and I was pretty upset. Let's start off the return of the series with the annual Prospect Watch.

Prospect Watch(top 15 prospects not currently on the NHL team):
1. Logan Brown, center, 20 years old, 75 overall, 4 1/2 yellow star potential
2. Cale Fleury, defenseman, 19 years old, 65 overall, 4 1/2 yellow star potential
3. Logan Flodell, goalie, 21 years old, 78 overall, 4 1/2 yellow star potential
4. Ivan Provorov, defenseman, 21 years old, 73 overall, 4 1/2 red star potential
5. Samuel Morin, defenseman, 23 years old, 79 overall, 4 yellow star potential
6. Evan Weinger, right winger, 21 years old, 77 overall, 4 yellow star potential
7. Alexis Pepin, left winger, 22 years old, 77 overall, 4 yellow star potential
8. Evan Smith, goalie, 21 years old, 75 overall, 4 yellow star potential
9. Spencer Watson, right winger, 22 years old, 78 overall, 4 red star potential
10. Glenn Gawdin, center, 21 years old, 77 overall, 4 red star potential
11. Nick Merkley, center, 21 years old, 73 overall, 4 red star potential
12. Olivier Galipeau, defenseman, 21 years old, 71 overall, 4 red star potential
13. Philippe Burrows, left winger, 20 years old, 70 overall, 4 red star potential
14. Kyle Makismovich, left winger, 20 years old, 68 overall, 4 red star potential
15. Marshall Shantz, right winger, 19 years old, 67 overall, 4 red star potential

We continue to have a stacked list of prospects, a sign of how bad we were at the start of this series, with Logan Brown and Cale Fleury leading the way. Brown looks close to being ready, but I might hold him and the other Logan, Logan Flodell, back for Cale Fleury. All three debuting at the same time would be awesome.

Here is a reminder of what our lines look like:

Forwards
Burakovsky(85)-Giroux(90)-Voracek(90)
Duclair(83)-Horvat(85)-Forsberg(86)
Perlini(83)-Couturier(85)-Versteeg(81)
Lemieux(80)-Corneil(80)-Reaves(80)

Defensemen
Ekman-Larsson(86)-Jones(86)
Gostisbehere(85)-Hagg(85)
Pettersson(83)-Meloche(82)

Goalies
Campbell(89)
Schmidmeyer(82)

A new name to the lineup is Johnny Corneil, filling the 4th line center. He's an offensively minded center, but has enough hockey awareness to play some defense, and can bang on the 4th line.

The start of the season wasn't kind to us, as we played the champs and the Lightning, the team we beat in the Eastern Conference Finals, 4 times in the first 2 months. Another long term injury to Claude Giroux, and a beat up defense, led to a 17-14-3 record to end 2018.

We got Giroux back in January, and turned our season around. From the end of January to mid February, we rolled out an impressive 12 game winning streak. We entered March, and the trade deadline, with a record of 34-21-5, good for 73 points, putting us right in the midst of the playoff race. Here are the team stat leaders:

Goals: Jakub Voracek, 37
Assists: Jakub Voracek, 34
Plus/Minus: Shayne Gostisbehere, +12
PIMS: Ryan Reaves, 104
Wins: Jack Campbell, 29

Led by a strong season from Jakub Voracek, the Flyers are right in it. Next post, we got into the trade deadline. Will deals be made? Tune in next time!

-Henry



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