2025-26 Player Grades: Denver Barkey became the Flyers’ best kept secret

Denver Barkey wasn’t supposed to be part of the plan. He began his first professional season this year in the American Hockey League with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, after a storied junior career with the London Knights compelled the Flyers to take him with 95th overall pick in 2023. After the diminutive forward put up 16 points in his first 26 games in the AHL, and Tyson Foerster went down with injury in early-December, Barkey was one of the names called up to try and fill the gaping hole