The Philadelphia Flyers Junior Hockey Club (also known as the Philadelphia Flyers Elite or the USPHL Flyers) were a Tier III junior

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team in the

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Premier Division. The franchise was originally based in

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, at the

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. In 2017, the franchise was sold to Delaware Hockey, LLC and it became the Lightning Hockey Club with plans to play in the USPHL's 2017–18 season out of

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. The team was removed from the league's member list in September 2017 prior to ever playing a game. The team was created in 2013 as one of the founding members of the

(USPHL) Premier Division, the highest level at the time for the league. It was owned and operated under the

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NHL team and parent owner

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History

The program was developed by the Philadelphia Flyers in 2013 to provide a junior-level program at the highest level of competition for aspiring hockey players in the

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region. After four seasons in the USPHL Premier Division, the ownership sold the USPHL Flyers to the Lightning Hockey Club. The new owners then relocated the team to

, in 2017. However, the team failed to make it to the start of their first season in Delaware. In addition to entering the USPHL-Premier Division, the Flyers Skate Zone also announced that their Team Comcast 16U and 18U midget teams would participate in the USPHL 16U and 18U Divisions. In 2016, Team Comcast left the USPHL for the Atlantic Youth Hockey League and were renamed Virtua Hockey.

Season-by-season records

References

External links

Flyers' official website

Lightning official website
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