On one hand, the Flyers are very clearly in the market for a top-line center. We know this because we saw them try to give Leo Carlsson $15 million per year on a restricted free agent offer sheet over the summer.<\/p>\n
Sean Couturier has had a great career in Philadelphia, but he’s not a top-line guy anymore.<\/p>\n
Trevor Zegras has a ton of talent, but his all-around game is not suited for a No. 1 role, and he might not even be at his best at center. <\/p>\n
There is a need, not only for a center, but also for somebody that can just be a difference-maker offensively. As good as they have been defensively over the past few years, generating offense has been a major problem. <\/p>\n
Scheifele would obviously help fix that. <\/p>\n
The question would be whether or not Scheifele, as a 33-year-old center, would fit into the timeframe the Flyers are currently on. They were a playoff team a year ago, and reached the second round, but it might not be a team that is ready to seriously contend right now. Would Scheifele get them closer to taking a big step?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On one hand, the Flyers are very clearly in the market for a top-line center. We know this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-870101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}