2025/2026 Season Trade Rumours and Speculation Thread

[Burn13]

Originally Posted by Muta

Only thing I'd like Conroy to do with free agents is give Pelletier another shot here, and that's it. If that doesn't happen, I'd be fine with doing absolutely nothing here - and so far so good.

Former first rounder 5yrs in the minors finally cracks Flames lineup on the 4th line. No thanks.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by TOfan

I’m sure Pelletier is a good kid and nice to have in the room org. That said, here’s our current organizational depth chart (in no particular order) for LHS wingers.

Huberdeau
Coleman
Zary
Farabee
Sharangovich
Lomberg
Posposil
Basha
Gridin
Battaglia
Stromgren


….theres not room for him on the Wranglers, let alone the Flames.

Fair, but that's seven NHL wingers and there's eight winger spots for next season. Pelletier and Stromgren competing for that last spot would not be a bad thing at all. Also, nothing wrong with having even more depth; injuries will definitely happen. And as you also mention, Pelletier would be good for the locker room; he bleeds the red and yellow, he's indicated as such - one should never discount that dynamic either.

[ComixZone]

Conroy availability coming up…

[TOfan]

Originally Posted by Muta

Fair, but that's seven NHL wingers and there's eight winger spots for next season. Pelletier and Stromgren competing for that last spot would not be a bad thing at all. Also, nothing wrong with having even more depth; injuries will definitely happen. And as you also mention, Pelletier would be good for the locker room; he bleeds the red and yellow, he's indicated as such - one should never discount that dynamic either.

Well, I only counted the LHS wingers, if we want to include RHS, you can add Coronato and Klapka. Pelletier’s not taking either of those spots.

Frankly, I think Pelletier is a bad fit for the Flames and for himself. He is an undersized winger who isn’t particularly dangerous as a scoring threat. He would have to be an excellent defensive player to leap frog the guys who already passed him while he was here.

[kyuss275]

Originally Posted by ComixZone

Conroy availability coming up…

Haha calling it a day. Good for him

[ICRed]

Originally Posted by Muta

Fair, but that's seven NHL wingers and there's eight winger spots for next season. Pelletier and Stromgren competing for that last spot would not be a bad thing at all. Also, nothing wrong with having even more depth; injuries will definitely happen. And as you also mention, Pelletier would be good for the locker room; he bleeds the red and yellow, he's indicated as such - one should never discount that dynamic either.

List is missing Klapka

[Muta]

Originally Posted by TOfan

Frankly, I think Pelletier is a bad fit for the Flames and for himself. He is an undersized winger who isn’t particularly dangerous as a scoring threat. He would have to be an excellent defensive player to leap frog the guys who already passed him while he was here.

Agree to disagree (which is totally fine). He was coming into his own with us, very evidently, right before the trade happened. I feel he'd be a solid addition, especially with the mantra of how the team wants to play the game here and to have players that want to be here - as long as he's aware he would still have have to earn a spot (like everyone else), and not just given one.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by Muta

Fair, but that's seven NHL wingers and there's eight winger spots for next season. Pelletier and Stromgren competing for that last spot would not be a bad thing at all. Also, nothing wrong with having even more depth; injuries will definitely happen. And as you also mention, Pelletier would be good for the locker room; he bleeds the red and yellow, he's indicated as such - one should never discount that dynamic either.

That's just the LWers.

Coronato, Klapka and others would be on the list as RWers as well.

Way more space for a Tomasino type than a Pelletier

[Lewis_D]

Originally Posted by ComixZone

Conroy availability coming up…

I wonder if he gives us an update on Prosvetov. I imagine probably some visa related stuff or something holding that up if it is indeed happening?

[Niemo]

Insiders......is there any Coleman chatter?

[Royle9]

Originally Posted by Niemo

Insiders......is there any Coleman chatter?

Only thing I’ve heard was that Dallas inquired.
Not even sure if Craig’s made him available, nor what a return would look like.
Dallas also keeping tabs on Rasmus.

[dammage79]

Was just reading the Avs are in on Ehlers and if they get Ehlers they're going to move Necas. IMO, keeping some assets to acquire Mecas would be saavy. Necas would be a good fit on RW and C.

[Ped]

Sabres trade Sam Lafferty to Chicago for a 6th. This is the third time the Hawks have acquired Lafferty.

[ComixZone]

Salim thread:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940167608785150097

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940168063963611588

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940168490994081825

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940169065273888816

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940169898380144850

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940170294075027890

Kind of does shine a light on the fact that players have held all the power under Conroy’s time here, and the organization has benefitted very little from it thus far.

If Ras really is here in September, it’ll be hard not to look at Conroy and just say “well, he’s not developing as a GM because he’s making the same mistakes over and over”

[MikePatton]

Originally Posted by Ped

Sabres trade Sam Lafferty to Chicago for a 6th. This is the third time the Hawks have acquired Lafferty.

Perhaps for a laff? Comedy they say works best in threes.

[Niemo]

Thanks Royle. Ras (50%) + Coleman + Grushnikov package to Dallas would be fun.

Lian Bischel + Future 1st unprotected + 2nd + 2nd

Probably too much from Dallas?

[dammage79]

I don't like how Salim paints the picture of the Flames. It's not real and heavily sensationalistic. "Something's wrong with Calgary and I think it's worse than they're letting on"

[traptor]

Originally Posted by ComixZone

Salim thread:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940167608785150097

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940168063963611588

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940168490994081825

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940169065273888816

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940169898380144850

https://twitter.com/user/status/1940170294075027890

Kind of does shine a light on the fact that players have held all the power under Conroy’s time here, and the organization has benefitted very little from it thus far.

If Ras really is here in September, it’ll be hard not to look at Conroy and just say “well, he’s not developing as a GM because he’s making the same mistakes over and over”

Yeah do love those response from CC.


Feels very limp, like we're just at the whims of the players.

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by dammage79

I don't like how Salim paints the picture of the Flames. It's not real and heavily sensationalistic. "Something's wrong with Calgary and I think it's worse than they're letting on"

I don’t think there’s anything in that thread that is sensationalizing anything.

It just is how it has been.

Conroy even talking about the Marner situation and how you either take less in a trade or keep the player and extract last minute value in a sign and trade?

That’s not exactly the most inspiring thing to see as a fan.

What is the messaging to the fans here? In his post draft interview, he even says it’s hard to replicate Florida because they had high picks.

…so that’s just it? “We can’t be the best because the best had top picks” (there’s me sensationalizing something)

[traptor]

Originally Posted by dammage79

I don't like how Salim paints the picture of the Flames. It's not real and heavily sensationalistic. "Something's wrong with Calgary and I think it's worse than they're letting on"

YYeah i dont love his framing either.


Like we're resetting our core, ofcourse we dont want to keep a bunch of UFA longterm.


But to be fair to Salim, the organization has framed it like they've tried to keep all these guys to some degree and just havnt agreed on contracts.