After a long and busy weekend of drafting, the Flyers are diving right into it this week, gather their prospects new and old for an equally busy week of action at Development Camp.

The Flyers will have some of their exciting big name pieces still participating in this camp — guys like Porter Martone, Denver Barkey, and Alex Bump, who have some meaningful NHL experience under their belts, and who can still learn some things from this camp, to be sure, but who are also players we can reasonably expect to pop in a big way and rise to the top of the group — but there’s no shortage of interesting players to keep an eye on, who might not be getting quite the same fanfare.

Oliver Bonk

Having gotten in for two NHL games this past season, Bonk has a bit more experience than some of the others in this group, but still not quite as much as that trio that we mentioned off the top. And given the time he missed through last year’s camp and the beginning of this regular season, this week will be a good chance for him to return to a normal pace — that is, not jumping on a moving train — and reground with some targeted work on his fundamentals.

All the same, he’s coming off of a very successful rookie season with the Phantoms, which saw him settle nicely into a top of the lineup role with the team, work through some rough spots, and ultimately get adjusted well to the pace of play and tap into a nice bit of production. There’s work still to be done, but he’s rising quickly through the organizational depth chart, and he’ll be an interesting one to watch to see how he looks against some of his peers.

Carson Bjarnason

For fellow Phantoms rookie Bjarnason, the season didn’t go as smoothly as one might have hoped. After a hot start to the year, his play dropped off pretty significantly by season’s end, as for whatever reason, Bjarnason just really seemed to lose his game, and didn’t have the runway in the heat of a playoff push to gain it back.

It can be a little difficult to get a wholly comprehensive feel for the goaltenders in these sessions, so we’re not approaching this with a long list of precise details that we’re looking to see immediately in his game, but rather, the hope here is to see a little more confidence and a little more broad command of the net, now that he’s gotten a bit of time off to rest and regroup after that difficult end to the regular season.

Maksim Sokolovskii

Of this group, of course, the biggest head turner — no pun intended — is bound to be the Flyers’ newest first round pick in defenseman Maksim Sokolovskii. When the pick was announced on Friday, it was immediately a bit of a divisive one, to say the least, but what’s done is done, and there remains a lot of interesting potential around him. This will be the first look that likely most fans and media alike are getting of him, outside of the tape, and while this week’s camp setting can’t provide a completely comprehensive look at his game, but it’s a good place to start.

There’s an acknowledgment coming into this that Sokolovskii is still a bit raw, so we’re managing our expectations here, but this will be a good chance to set the baseline for where he’s at, and to measure from as he goes on. First impressions matter, and we’ll see soon what he’s able to do with this one.

Jack Nesbitt

From this year’s divisive first round pick to last year’s first round pick, it will be particularly interesting to catch up with Nesbitt and see how his fundamentals have progressed over the past year. He had himself a good but not completely stellar season back in the OHL, but is primed to take the next step and jump to the college level with Michigan in the fall. His career is advancing and he’s gaining more opportunities to grow his game against more difficult competition, and this week will be a productive one for him, as he’ll gain some more guidance on how to mold his own game to the college style from the development coaches, and also get the chance to pick the brains of some of his fellow prospects who have come through or are still going through the college ranks. The chance for fans and media to get a look at how he’s progressing will make for an informative week, but those lessons that he’s taking on himself will carry even more weight.

Nathan Quinn

Taken as something of an upside bet in the sixth round of last year’s draft, Quinn took a massive step forward in his second full season in the QMJHL — going from 46 points in 54 games in his draft year to a whopping 34 goals and 73 points in 58 games last season — and put in a lot of good work towards assuring the organization that this bet on him was a good one.

There’s still a lot of developmental work that will need to go into his game, and he’s still set to take the longer route, but he seems to be advancing nicely up that development curve, and he’ll be a particularly interesting player to watch, to see how he stacks up against some of these higher pedigreed peers. He’s been a really pleasant surprise so far, so we’ll see how well he’s able to keep that rolling into this week.