ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. \u2014 The Flyers went with another defenseman to open Day 2 of the 2026 NHL draft.<\/p>\n
In the second round at 53rd overall, the club selected Brek Liske, a 6-foot-1, 190-pounder from the WHL’s Everett Silvertips. The 18-year-old had 24 points (seven goals, 17 assists) and a plus-36 rating in 52 games this season.<\/p>\n
By trading back in the first round Friday night to grab massive defenseman Maksim Sokolovskii<\/a>, the Flyers acquired a second Round 2 pick. They selected again at No. 62, taking goaltender Martin Psohlavec<\/a>.<\/p>\n Liske was the 45th-ranked player on\u00a0EliteProspects.com<\/a>. He was slotted at No. 54 by\u00a0TSN’s Craig Button<\/a> and No. 67 by Daily Faceoff’s Steven Ellis<\/a>.<\/p>\n His father Lonnie Liske is a die-hard Flyers fan, despite being from Beausejour in Manitoba.<\/p>\n “My dad was always a big Flyers fan his whole life and kind of brainwashed me into it,” Liske said on a Zoom interview from his home, while wearing a Flyers jersey. “From a young age, just going to Flyers games, wearing Flyers stuff. I’ve just always been a Flyers fan.”<\/p>\n Liske said his dad has an orange jeep with a Flyers logo as a tire cover.<\/p>\n “I’ve never heard him yell so loud,” Liske said of his father’s reaction to the pick. “There was a big cheer, but I could distinctly hear my dad’s voice. He’s wearing his Flyers jersey very proud right now.”<\/p>\n Liske, a righty shot, had a strong playoff run this season for the Silvertips. He recorded 17 points (four goals, 13 assists) and a plus-25 rating in 18 games.<\/p>\n “I describe my game as a two-way defenseman, I think I defend well,” Liske said. “I can move the puck and make the right plays.”<\/p>\n (More coming …)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. \u2014 The Flyers went with another defenseman to open Day 2 of the 2026 NHL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[97142,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-229832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-flyers-draft","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}