FWIW here is an interesting rumor. Source is a kind of sketchy. IIRC a few years ago he was close to some Islanders players (mainly through gambling).
https://twitter.com/user/status/1766206042113798314
Ruslan Iskhakov
https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/...php?pid=213751
Seems like it checks off a lot of boxes for the Flames.
23 years old.
Center.
Decent AHL stats.
Russian.
Seems to be buried by oranizational depth
But he is small 5'8''