Philadelphia Flyers Continue To Make Trade Offers

The Philadelphia Flyers have had quite the offseason, and there's plenty of rumors going around that general manager Daniel Briere has been working the phones.

According to multiple reports, the Flyers are shopping for defencemen, and recently, have been very aggressive with their trade offers. Briere turned the NHL on it's head this summer by signing Leo Carlsson to a lucrative offer sheet, and reportedly since, has been laser focused on trying to land NHL proven blueliners.

Marco D'Amico: Re Flyers: They've been looking for a defenseman all summer, they were in on John Carlsson, they were very interested in Darnell Nurse, I've been told they've kicked tires on Alexander Romanov.

The Flyers have $13.7 million in cap space to work with, so Briere can be creative as he'd like. They also have six draft picks in the first four rounds of next year's draft, and they also have two first-round picks the year after. Throw in some talented young forwards, intriguing top prospects, and Briere shouldn't have any issues tracking down some talent.

The issue becomes who's available, and the latest rumor is a move with the Montreal Canadiens about Arber Xhekaj. The restricted free-agent defenceman is one of the toughest customers in the league, and seems to have Flyers' hockey written all over him. There's also Zach Whitecloud in Calgary, who many teams have inquired about, but so far the Flames haven't budged. On a lesser scale, the Toronto Maple Leafs are open to moving former Flyer, Philippe Myers, so perhaps there's a smaller deal to be completed there.

Briere is making offers, we'll see if he adds some more talent before training camp.