It looks like the Flyers can breathe a sigh of relief before things ramp up for the 2025-26 season.
Tyson Foerster, recovering from an offseason injury, is on track to be ready for the Oct. 9 opener, according to a report Thursday by Bill Meltzer of Hockey Hot Stove. General manager Danny Briere told Meltzer that “everything looks good right now” for Foerster and the young winger “should be ready for the season.”
Foerster had surgery this offseason on his elbow to address an infection that stemmed from an injury he suffered playing for Team Canada at the 2025 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
“He came and saw our doctors and they decided they had to go in and remove the infection,” Briere said July 1. “What I’m finding out is it takes a long time for all the samples to come back negative and that’s what we’re still waiting on, we don’t know.
“At that point, we’ll reevaluate and see if more needs to be done. Or if we’re lucky enough, that’s the end of it and he can move on and be ready for the start of the season. But there’s no guarantee of that, so we’re sitting and waiting right now to see how serious it is or not.”
Losing Foerster over any period of time would have been a loss for the Flyers. The 23-year-old was second on the team last season with 25 goals after putting up 20 as a rookie the previous season. He helped form one of the Flyers’ most effective lines in 2024-25 with Noah Cates and Bobby Brink.
“I think he has always been marked as an offensive guy, a scorer,” former interim head coach Brad Shaw said of Foerster in April. “I’ve been impressed with how he has added to the defensive side with the penalty kill, with how responsible that line plays 5-on-5. We put them out there regularly against the other team’s top unit and they do a fantastic job.”
At the end of May, Foerster signed a new two-year, $7.5 million contract.
“I love it here, it’s great to play here and the guys are great,” he said in April. “I just want to get better every day, really. It could be a short-term deal, it could be long term, but whatever it is, I’m happy to be here.”