Tortorella has taken the three previous teams he's coached for at least three years to new heights in his third full season in charge. That includes winning the Stanley Cup with Tampa Bay in 2004.

John Tortorella makes his players play a physical style of hockey -- but he may make an exception regarding Flyers phenom Matvei Michkov.

Team-building was the motive. On a damp day in the woods, the players split up into smaller groups, executing various problem-solving exercises that had nothing to do with hockey. The challenges, some of which involved ropes and pulleys, combined the physical with the mental.

In the final year of a two-year, bridge deal, can Frost, 25, stay out of Tortorella's doghouse and stake his claim to be part of the long-term puzzle in Philadelphia?