The Flyers trimmed their training camp group by 15 players on Saturday, and the first wave of cuts didn’t bring any real surprises.
After three days of a shortened camp and an intrasquad scrimmage Saturday morning, Philadelphia has the team off Sunday before returning to work Monday. Before that next round of ice time, the club sent eight players to Lehigh Valley and loaned seven more back to junior teams.
Headed to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms are forwards Brady Berard, Alex Ciernik, Devin Kaplan, Owen McLaughlin, Ilya Pautov and Zayde Wisdom, along with defensemen Jackson Edward and Andrew Perrott.
The Flyers also sent Nathan Quinn, KJ Sauer, Brek Liske, Maksim Sokolovskii, Luke Vlooswyk, Martin Psohlavec and Marek Sklenicka back to their junior clubs.
Most of those names spent the first two days in Group C, while Groups A and B were the players with a legitimate path to the NHL roster. Perrott was the exception among the Phantoms-bound defensemen, as he was the only one from that group who showed up in Group A or B. That may simply have been done to balance out the blue line in Group B.
The two biggest draft names in the junior group were Sokolovskii and Liske, both of whom skated with Group A early in camp. Sokolovskii, in particular, turned heads with a few strong moments.
Liske spent his two days paired with Ty Murchison, while Sokolovskii was alongside Rasmus Ristolainen - a pairing that would make life difficult for just about anyone who tried to challenge them down low.
Sokolovskii is headed back to the London Knights for his second season in the OHL. In 44 games last season, he posted eight points, 49 penalty minutes and a plus-10 rating, and he finished the year stronger than he started it. He is committed to the University of Maine for the 2027-28 season.
Liske returns to the Everett Silvertips for his third full season. He appeared in three games with Everett in 2023-24 and recorded two points, then played 66 games in 2024-25 and 52 games last year.
His best stretch came later in the season, especially while playing alongside the presumptive 2027 first overall pick Landon Dupont. Liske finished the regular season with 24 points and then produced 17 points in 18 playoff games for Everett. With Dupont spending his draft year at the University of Michigan, Liske will have a different setup ahead of him this season.
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