Flyers’ top prospects making for a strong development system

The plan is to not only get good but stay good. It’s certainly nothing new. The Flyers have been talking about this for a year or two, which is why they have put such an emphasis on their development system. General manager Daniel Briere has made it a point to not only stockpile draft picks but hang onto those young players with the intention of getting them to become future Flyers. Brent Flahr, Briere’s assistant GM, oversees the scouting department and he plays a big role in not only the acquisition of budding talent but keeping an eye on their progress as well. In putting together a list of the team’s top half-dozen prospects at “winter’s halfway point,” we relied on Flahr’s knowledge and...