Updated: Friday, 9:30 a.m.
It appears the Flyers could be adding a Swedish forward to the mix in 2020-21.
Linus Sandin, a 23-year-old who played in the Swedish Elite League during 2019-20, intends to sign with the Flyers, according to a report Thursday night by Sportsnet Canada’s Chris Johnston.
Nothing is official as a contract has not been signed, per the report, so a potential deal could fall through.
"We have no comments at all on the rumor," Sandin's agent Michael Rosell said Friday to NBC Sports Philadelphia.
A 6-foot-1, 209-pound winger, Sandin finished tied for third in the SHL this past season with 19 goals. He scored 36 points in 51 games for HV71.
During 2019-20, the Flyers had five prospects play in the SHL (Olle Lycksell, Linus Hogberg, Adam Ginning, David Bernhardt, Samuel Ersson), so they scout the league well and see it a lot.
Oskar Lindblom and Robert Hagg are also SHL products. Lindblom went from being a 2014 fifth-round pick to winning 2016-17 SHL Forward of the Year with 47 points (22 goals, 25 assists) in 52 games for Brynäs IF as a 20-year-old. Hagg shares the same hometown of Uppsala as Sandin, who is the brother of Rasmus Sandin, a 2018 first-round pick of the Maple Leafs.
Sandin, who went undrafted and turns 24 years old in May, is considered to have bottom-six NHL potential.
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