Quick Hits: August 17, 2021

1) The Flyers will hold their 2021 Development Camp at the team training center in Voorhees from August 28 to September 1. Seventeen forwards, 10 defensemen and two goaltenders are slated to attend. Power forward Zayde Wisdom, the team's fourth-round pick in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft is on the attendance roster but will not participate on the ice after recently undergoing shoulder surgery. There are five unaffiliated invitees on the roster; three forwards and two defensemen. The camp roster is as follows:

FORWARDS
Wade Allison
Jon-Randall Avon (camp invitee)
Ethan Burroughs (camp invitee)
Jackson Cates
Elliot Desnoyers
Tyson Foerster
Morgan Frost
Tanner Laczynski
Owen McLaughlin
Connor McLennon
Isaac Ratcliffe
Nolan Ritchie (camp invitee)
Linus Sandin
Matthew Strome
Maksim Sushko
Samu Tuomaala
Zayde Wisdom


DEFENSEMEN
Linus Högberg
Mason Millman
Ethan Samson
Quinn Schmiemann (camp invitee)
Jackson van de Leest (camp invitee)
Wyatte Wylie
Cam York
Egor Zamula
Brian Zanetti
Cooper Zech

GOALIES
Samuel Ersson
Kirill Ustimenko

2)The Flyers have hired Rick Bronwell, formerly with the Minnesota Wild, as the team's new head equipment manager. Bronwell has 25 years of pro hockey experience, including NHL equipment manager stints with the San Jose Sharks and a decade with the Wild. Twenty years ago, he was the equipment manager for the ECHL's now-defunct Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies (today the Adirondack Thunder).

3) August 17 Flyers Alumni birthdays: Pete Peeters (1957), Drew Callander (1956).

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