[TheScorpion]

yes, the Flames have all these guys locked into contracts at the NHL level next year:

- Mark Giordano
- TJ Brodie
- Travis Hamonic
- Noah Hanifin
- Rasmus Andersson
- Michael Stone
- Juuso Valimaki
- Oliver Kylington

however, before today, the Flames had the following non-NHL d-men locked into contracts for next year:

- Andrew Nielsen

so this is an excellent move, especially with Healey, Valiev, Taormina, and Hogstrom on expiring deals. For next year, I suspect they'll re-up Valiev, make the rumoured Yelesin signing official, and add a couple more bodies on the back-end, maybe even making AOM one of them.