Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Flyers beat the New York Rangers in a shootout at home Saturday night, and now have won four of their last five games.

Preseason action for the Philadelphia Flyers begins in less than three weeks, with the regular season set to commence a mere two weeks after that.

Hopes are high for a Flyers squad that finished third in the tightly contested Metropolitan Division a season ago before taking the eventual Eastern Conference champion New York Rangers to the brink in their opening-round playoff series.

It's taken a few years, but the Philadelphia Flyers have slowly stockpiled one of the more encouraging prospect pools in the Eastern Conference.

The Flyers aren't overloaded with high-end prospect talent but instead, feature a deep core of solid up-and-comers at virtually every position.

Some names are already familiar to fans in Philadelphia.

Forwards such as Scott Laughton and Jason Akeson have already made their NHL debuts and figure to be in the hunt for regular minutes in the upcoming 2014-15 season.

The Philadelphia Flyers have had a host of highlight-makers in the team's 47-year history.

But the orange and black have arguably never had a more dynamic set of highlight-makers than the City of Brotherly Love and its fans have seen over the last 10 years.

It's been one of the most back-and-forth, up-and-down and entertaining decades in Flyers' history, and it's been showcased by some of the most exciting players in team history.

All in all, the Philadelphia Flyers' roster for the upcoming 2014-15 season is awfully similar to last year's squad.

Nine of the team's top 10 point producers from a season ago are set to return, while Steve Mason and Ray Emery are both back between the pipes providing Philadelphia with a stability in goal the Orange and Black haven't enjoyed in years.

For the first time in a long time, the prospect pool for the Philadelphia Flyers is well stocked and awfully encouraging.

On the heels of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, the Flyers have now chosen a player in the first and second round of the draft in three straight years for the first time in more than 25 years.

After a 10th-place finish in the Eastern Conference following the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season, the Philadelphia Flyers rebounded last year with 42 victories en route to a sixth-place finish in the East and the team's 17th postseason appearance in the last 20 years.

Much went right for the Flyers last season.

The Philadelphia Flyers have had some incredible goal scorers in their 47-year history.

Snipers who could bury pucks from just about anywhere. Playmakers who could turn nothing into something. And power forwards who could routinely finish in and around the front of the net.

But rather than simply outline the five greatest goal scorers in team history, this breakdown will dig a bit deeper.

Overall, it's been a relatively uneventful offseason so far for the Philadelphia Flyers.

As presently constituted, the Philadelphia Flyers roster for the 2014-15 season looks awfully similar to last year's squad.