In the not-too-distant past, Joel Farabee was considered the potential heir apparent to Claude Giroux in Philadelphia.

Picked 14th overall in the 2018 entry draft, Farabee played a single year of college hockey (scoring at a near point-per-game pace as a freshman) before jumping into the NHL at just 19 years old.

As a 20-year-old sophomore, he piled up 20 goals and 38 points in the shortened 2020-21 season (55 games). Only established stars James Van Riemsdyk, Jakub Voracek, Sean Couturier and Giroux outscored Farabee for the Flyers that year. He seemed to be on the fast track to stardom.

But over the next four seasons, his progression stalled, hampered by a serious neck injury and an ongoing feud with his coach.

Last year, he was packaged together with Morgan Frost in a deal with the

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