Welcome to Between the Pipes, a look at the Philadelphia Flyers and the NHL through linkage.
NHL salary cap number released
The cap ceiling will be $71.4 million dollars next season. The Flyers are at $69.3 million already: [NHL.com] [Kukla's Korner-Paul]
The future in goal
Ron Hextall is very aware of the organization's need to draft a future starting goaltender: [Courier Post Online-Dave Isaac]
Our own Kevin Durso has a profile of a goalie prospect that might interest Hextall: [Flyerdelphia-Kevin Durso] If you want to check out some of this year's prospects, Kevin has profiles for many of the top players.
Wisdom Of Bill
Bill Meltzer weighs in on the NHL Draft, goalie development and the Trial on the Isle: [Hockeybuzz-Bill Meltzer]
2015 NHL Draft
This draft is being compared with the 2003 class, which gave us players like Jeff Carter, Mike Richards, Ryan Getzlaf and Shea Weber to name a few: [Philly.com- Sam Carchidi] [CSNPhilly- Tim Panaccio]
That's all for today, join us on Friday and Saturday as we have in depth NHL Draft coverage for all the Flyers picks and anything else that might happen at the draft.
