Quite the opposite, if you're going to play a lot of young players, you're going to be inconsistent.
I think they're not fixated on winning.
They want to be competitive, b/c it's a better environment for player development, but they're not making moves to make the playoffs by adding veterans.
They absolutely expected to be in the playoff
bubble race, and if they backslide to the bottom 5-8, it's
not what they envisioned. You can already see the panic setting in with the scratches, lines, talk around the team. What says patience about this? And they didn't make moves to add veterans because they already have plenty of veterans they won't move (they just re-signed 2 of their oldest players). That's how Brink and Foerster still get scratched, with Luchanko not playing.
They're also less young than they appear. Luchanko will be sent down; Andrae is on the bench. Their goalies average out as 26 years old but might very well be near the statistical bottom or out of the league. Their youngest defenseman is Drysdale, but he's in his 5th NHL season and might simply be bad. Next is Zamula, and he's on borrowed time. Their 25 year old, 8-year term cornerstone player is a forever inconsistent middle 6 player. Being 27 years old (Konecny) means nothing when they are years away. I think one of Farabee or Frost gets traded for a similarly aged player this season.
If the Flyers were the youngest team in the league, it doesn't matter because it doesn't speak to talent. The Flyers believe they are near their requisite talent level.