5 random players you forgot were on the Philadelphia Flyers

The Philadelphia Flyers have a storied history full of notable names and franchise heroes. Yet for all those players on the Mount Rushmore of Flyers hockey, there are just as many skaters that make you say, “Who?”

With over 50 years of professional hockey having been played in the City of Brotherly Love, fans have been fortunate to have been graced by the play of skaters like Bobby Clarke, Bernie Parent, Ron Hextall, Eric Lindros and Claude Giroux. Many of these players have come to define what it means to be a Flyer in each decade of the team’s history.

However, as with any franchise, the Flyers have had more than their fair shares of duds and wishful do-overs since 1967.

Few can forget Adam Oates — at one point thought to be the missing piece of a Cup-contending Flyers squad — and his underwhelming half-season tenure in Philadelphia. Or Ilya Bryzgalov, the goaltender who was supposed to fill a “humongous big” hole in the Flyers crease but ultimately saw his time with the orange and black end in one of the biggest compliance buyouts in NHL history.

But what about the players that just seem out of place? The ones that you could bring up to a Flyers fan of any era and they’d either think you were crazy, or have a Jimmy Neutron-esque brain blast as a flood of random highlights come surging through their head.

Sure, the two aforementioned  moves were bad, but they weren’t necessarily forgettable, nor were the players involved. In a way, they live in an elevated position in the collective memory of the fanbase because they were so bad.

Instead, in this article we’ll be looking at a handful of players that suited up for the Flyers, but for whatever reason didn’t quite leave a lasting impact during their tenure.