{"id":256856,"date":"2026-08-01T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256856\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:00:17","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-news-phantoms-lock-up-key-roster-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256856\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers News: Phantoms lock up key roster spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0L5A1349-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heather Cattai \/ Heather Barry Images<\/p>\n<p>*Folks we\u2019re in the doldrums. In case you hadn\u2019t noticed. But fear not, your BSH fam is still out here working hard in the content mines. As a result, you get a full report on the big signings the Flyers made for the Phantoms yesterday. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadstreethockey.com\/post\/phantoms-sign-brady-berard-andrew-perrott-to-one-year-deals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BSH<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>*We also have some thoughts on a few things the Flyers might be able to do to fix their stupid, heretofore unfixable power play. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadstreethockey.com\/post\/3-outside-the-box-ideas-to-fix-the-flyers-power-play-next-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BSH<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>*In case you were not aware of this fact, the Flyers have seven defensemen on the roster. Each and every one of them could stand to fix something. We could all stand to fix something though, don\u2019t you think? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadstreethockey.com\/post\/the-one-thing-every-flyers-defenseman-must-improve-next-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BSH<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>*Next up on the 25 Under 24 ranking is a late round pick from 2025 who is doing what folks tend to do in the Q: scoring some points. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadstreethockey.com\/post\/flyers-2026-top-25-under-25-no-21-nathan-quinn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BSH<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>*Another person who never stops toiling in the content mines is Down Goes Brown, who seems to have an infinite supply of wacky premises for articles. Like this one, one which is the best team to not get a single Hart Trophy vote. What will he come up with next?! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7471546\/2026\/07\/30\/nhl-team-salary-cap-hart-trophy-vote\/?unlocked_article_code=1.1lA.HkXg.tR9QqnDpCk7v&amp;source=athletic_user_shared_gift_article_copylink&amp;smid=url-share-ta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Athletic<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>*And finally, in what can only be described as Peak Summer Content (a list, which is ranked, about something other than hockey. The trifecta, they\u2019re calling it.): every single Spiderman movie ever, ranked. Because everything is sports. Argue about it in the comments. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadstreethockey.com\/post\/ranking-every-spider-man-movie-from-worst-to-best\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BSH<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heather Cattai \/ Heather Barry Images *Folks we\u2019re in the doldrums. In case you hadn\u2019t noticed. But fear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-256856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256856","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=256856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}