The Flyers had to shuffle the blue line again after placing Cam York on injured reserve retroactive to Oct. 8 with an upper-body injury.
Philadelphia announced the move on social media, then turned to the organization’s depth by recalling defenseman Hunter McDonald from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. The club also loaned forward Jack Studnicka and defender Helge Grans to the Phantoms.
York, 25, was hurt in the Flyers’ 2-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Oct. 8. He has appeared in five games in 2026-27 and has been logging 21:49 of ice time per night.
This is York’s seventh season with the Flyers. The left-shot defenseman was selected No. 14 overall in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and has produced 23 goals and 80 assists for 103 points in 314 career regular-season games. He is in the second year of a five-year contract with a $5.15 million cap hit.
McDonald, 24, gets the call after spending the past two seasons with the Phantoms. In parts of four AHL seasons, he has recorded five goals, 25 assists, 30 points and 205 penalty minutes in 153 career regular-season games.
A sixth-round Flyers pick in 2022, the Fairport, N.Y., native played two seasons of college hockey at Northeastern University. Across 58 career NCAA games, McDonald posted two goals, 18 assists, 20 points and 88 penalty minutes.
Philadelphia enters the move at 1-6-3 with five points through 10 games in 2026-27. The Flyers picked up their first win of the season Saturday night, a 3-1 result against Ottawa that featured two-point performances from Matvei Michkov and Porter Martone, plus Trevor Zegras’ second goal of the season.
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