The 2024-2025 NHL season is here, and EA Sports ran their annual NHL 25 Stanley Cup predictions with some big results for the Rangers

Summary With the puck dropping on the NHL season in North America tonight — the Flyers don’t play until Friday in Vancouver — we asked our Flyers beat writer Jackie Spiegel and editor Gus Elvin to make their predictions for the Flyers and the NHL as a whole: The Flyers narrowly missed the playoffs last season after stretching their hopes all the way to their final game.

The New York Rangers emerged as Stanley Cup champions, defeating the Edmonton Oilers in seven games as the Oilers fall one-game short again. Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin took home the Vezina and Conn Smythe Trophies. The Boston Bruins and Nashville Predators each had successful seasons, both ultimately losing in the Conference Finals.

Matvei Michkov is in the NHL ahead of schedule after the Philadelphia Flyers got him out of Russia and to North America a little over a year after taking him with the seventh pick in the draft

Fears over getting Matvei Michkov out of Russia, combined with a lack of reliable scouting, led the skilled winger to slip in the 2023 NHL draft. The rebuilding Philadelphia Flyers

The Philadelphia Flyers just missed out on the Stanley Cup playoffs last year – but the fanbase is already optimistic about 2024-25. Not because they’re expected to be serious contenders – they aren’t.