October nears, the preseason schedule is narrowing down, and so is the Flyers' roster picture for opening night.
With a 3-2 shootout win over the Bruins Monday night in Boston, the team completed a home-and-home series of exhibitions that had their standouts, followed by another wave of cuts.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Flyers announced the assignments of 10 players to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms down in the AHL: Forwards Denver Barkey, Alex Bump, Alexis Gendron, and Devin Kaplan; Defensemen Emil Andrae, Helge Grans, Hunter McDonald, and Ty Murchison; and goaltenders Carson Bjarnason and Aleksei Kolosov.
Some of those names are coming in as expected. Bjarnason and Kolosov were always set to be the Phantoms' goaltending tandem, while Sam Ersson and Dan Vladar would start as the NHL duo. O