{"id":791141,"date":"2026-07-29T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/791141\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:44:16","slug":"nhl-free-agents-2026-rumors-and-predictions-for-flyers-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/791141\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Free Agents 2026 Rumors and Predictions for Flyers, Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\"><a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DailyFaceoff\/status\/2080050252661567889?t=836\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">David Pagnotta<\/a> reported that teams are interested in restricted free agent Arber Xhekaj. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The 25-year-old is a bruising, intimidating force with great strength and a punishing slap shot. He is an enforcer that teams need to help set a tone and protect the blue line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">His physicality is his greatest asset and one that contending teams would love to have, hence the interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">One of those teams, according to Pagnotta, is Philadelphia. While that contradicts Di Marco&#8217;s report about the Flyers, it is certainly an addition the team would not mind adding yet this offseason as it looks to build on the upward momentum it experienced following its first playoff berth since 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Pagnotta reported that teams are interested in restricted free agent Arber Xhekaj. The 25-year-old is a bruising,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-791141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}