​Amid a winless 0-2-2 start to the season, the Philadelphia Flyers made a surprise transaction on Tuesday, signing veteran free agent winger Michael Bunting to a one-year contract worth $1.2 million. That will, however, invariably have a trickle effect on the rest of the lineup moving forward.As has been discussed often throughout the last several years, the Flyers have a stocked cupboard full of wingers on the NHL roster, in the minors, and in the prospect pipeline.No matter which way the Bunting signing gets sliced, someone is losing a spot in the lineup and ice time, and that someone obviously is not going to be a player like Tyson Foerster, Travis Konecny, Matvei Michkov, Porter Martone, or Owen Tippett.Instead, youngsters like Alex Bump, Denver Barkey, and Nikita Grebenkin will be hit with the shrapnel of the surprise signing, and Bump, who has already been benched during games and healthy scratched this season, seems destined for the AHL, especially when including the context of his unimpressive preseason and training camp.Barkey had been injured up until Sunday’s practice, and Grebenkin has taken Barkey’s place on injured reserve.To turn the tide, the Flyers are first adding some veteran experience with Bunting, a player who plays with sandpaper and can bring offensive value in the right situation.Flyers Need Big Simon Edvinsson Trade to Shake Up Slumping RosterWith Simon Edvinsson looking for a trade, the Philadelphia Flyers have the perfect opportunity to right the ship and change the narrative.Presumably, the Flyers are hoping they can coax some of that scoring out of Bunting, who has two 50+ point seasons under his belt, but hasn’t achieved that since 2023-24.At his best, Bunting was able to be that stabilizing, complementary force for more talented players.Early in his career, the scrappy winger played alongside Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner, owning a 65% expected goal share in 557 minutes in 2021-22, and 57.3% of the expected goal share in 282.5 minutes in 2022-23.With William Nylander replacing Marner for 101 more minutes in 2022-23, the results were 0.6% worse, so virtually the same.In 2023-24, Bunting scored 19 points in 21 games with Pittsburgh, spending 193 minutes at 5-on-5 with Evgeni Malkin and Rickard Rakell, a trio that owned 60% of the expected goal share, per MoneyPuck.During his time in Carolina, before being shipped off to Pittsburgh, Bunting owned 59.9% of the expected goal share playing alongside Jack Drury and Martin Necas.Last season, in spite of how mediocre the Nashville Predators were, Bunting, Erik Haula, and Luke Evangelista owned 61.3% of the expected goal share in 124 minutes together.This is all to say that, yes, the Flyers can absolutely get some good value of Bunting when he is paired up with the right linemates… and if the Flyers as a team start playing real hockey.The following lineup is my educated guess on what I think the Flyers will end up doing, not necessarily what I would personally do:Flyers