LeBrun on Flyers' expected trade deadline activity level

Pierre LeBrun was on Montreal’s TSN 690 on Tuesday evening.

On if the Flyers will be active at the trade deadline:

"Not nearly as active as – I mean, I do think they’ll make a couple of moves, but I don’t think they’ll be nearly as active as they planned to be if - well, as they hoped to be, I would say, in the offseason.

“They have to revamp their blueline. They do have kids coming. Sam Morin comes to mind. There are prospects coming. But they have got to become a better defensive team. They have two of the top 5 scorers in the league, but yet probably don’t produce as much offense as they could team-wide because they spend too much time in their zone. Look for that tonight when you’re watching the Habs-Flyers game. They really struggle at transition at times and a lot of it starts with their issues on the blueline.

“So I think that’ll be an area of emphasis, probably even more so in June than now, but that’s where the focus and the work has to be for Philadelphia, is to be a quicker team and a more talented team on the back end.”

Source: TSN 690/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey

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