2025/2026 Season Trade Rumours and Speculation Thread

[Funkhouser]

This team needs a trade ASAP before we crack each other heads open and feast on the goo!

Save us insiders...you're our only hope!

[Sandman]

Garrioch specifically mentioned Blake Coleman as being a fit for the Sens, who will look to make a splash in the trade market.

[gvitaly]

Originally Posted by Sandman

Garrioch specifically mentioned Blake Coleman as being a fit for the Sens, who will look to make a splash in the trade market.

The Sens have been looking for a Coleman type player for about 2 years now, so that makes a ton of sense.

[Royle9]

I did reach out, and while I expected nothing crazy in terms of details out of respect etc, I did get the following:

"Very much still Craig's team"
"Hanlon's stepped in a bit on this one"
"Fully expects movement, its not if its when"

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by gvitaly

The Sens have been looking for a Coleman type player for about 2 years now, so that makes a ton of sense.

They don’t have a lot that is interesting
Obviously Yakemchuk would be great but that seems a reach
Hensler?

[Sandman]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

They don’t have a lot that is interesting
Obviously Yakemchuk would be great but that seems a reach
Hensler?

You took the words right out of my mouth, Jiri. I don’t think there’s any chance they would part with Yakemchuk. Hensler maybe, but I doubt they would do it for an older player like Coles. There’s Ridly Greig, but not looking like anything more than a third-liner these days…

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Royle9

I did reach out, and while I expected nothing crazy in terms of details out of respect etc, I did get the following:

"Very much still Craig's team"
"Hanlon's stepped in a bit on this one"
"Fully expects movement, its not if its when"

Feel bad for Hanlon here, being such a good communications guy. Absolutely sucks to have to clean up your boss’ mess.

Who knows, maybe the media and the season ticket holders turning on Maloney will be exactly what this team needs.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

They don’t have a lot that is interesting
Obviously Yakemchuk would be great but that seems a reach
Hensler?

You could eat half of Coleman’s salary and take MacDermid off their hands and their 2027 1st and maybe even something else since that trade basically only adds 1.3 million to their cap for the next 2 seasons.

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Feel bad for Hanlon here, being such a good communications guy. Absolutely sucks to have to clean up your boss’ mess.

Who knows, maybe the media and the season ticket holders turning on Maloney will be exactly what this team needs.

I mean, as much as you can feel sorry for a guy in an absolutely prized position…

Hard not to feel a bit bad for Maloney. Dude was out there blissfully tap-dancing on the frayed wires of Flames fandom’s collective sanity, completely ignorant of the boomerang laced in verbal shrapnel headed back his way.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

They don’t have a lot that is interesting
Obviously Yakemchuk would be great but that seems a reach
Hensler?

Yeah for a team just coming out of a rebuild their prospect pool is kind of ugly.

Those Debrincat and Chychrun trades were just ugly for them.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

Yeah for a team just coming out of a rebuild their prospect pool is kind of ugly.

Those Debrincat and Chychrun trades were just ugly for them.

And drafting Tyler Boucher at 10

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by ComixZone

I mean, as much as you can feel sorry for a guy in an absolutely prized position…

Hard not to feel a bit bad for Maloney. Dude was out there blissfully tap-dancing on the frayed wires of Flames fandom’s collective sanity, completely ignorant of the boomerang laced in verbal shrapnel headed back his way.

Something about it just doesn’t sit right with me, and part of that is Francis’ claim that Maloney wasn’t aware how his last comments were received.

Even I didn’t think they were very controversial but knew the moment I read them how they’d go over. It’s one thing for Maloney not to know, and maybe someone warned him and he ignored it, or people did know and just didn’t warn him?

There’s just no way nobody in the org saw the reaction play out this way. When you’ve got Francis throwing them under the bus on team-owned radio and even Steinberg voicing serious concern you’ve totally screwed up.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Something about it just doesn’t sit right with me, and part of that is Francis’ claim that Maloney wasn’t aware how his last comments were received.

Even I didn’t think they were very controversial but knew the moment I read them how they’d go over. It’s one thing for Maloney not to know, and maybe someone warned him and he ignored it, or people did know and just didn’t warn him?

There’s just no way nobody in the org saw the reaction play out this way. When you’ve got Francis throwing them under the bus on team-owned radio and even Steinberg voicing serious concern you’ve totally screwed up.

Perhaps Maloney put his foot in his mouth, and when his subordinates (remember, they're all under him on the org chart) spoke up about it, said something like, ‘Don't tell me how to do my job. I can fix this’ – and proceeded to jam his other foot in his mouth. Nobody besides the owners themselves had the authority to stop him.

To my eye and ear, he looks and sounds a lot older than 67. I honestly wonder if he has medical issues that are affecting his judgement.

[gvitaly]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

They don’t have a lot that is interesting
Obviously Yakemchuk would be great but that seems a reach
Hensler?

Maybe Halliday + 2nd?

Halliday could turn into a center that plays a style similar to Frost. His playmaking was always pretty good, if the Flames could improve his skating like they did with Coronato and Zary then he's going to be a good one. He is 23, and the Flames would have 2 years before he has to go through waivers, but I expect him to stay in the NHL. If the Flames move Kadri or Frost this year then he would be competing with Zary for the 3C/PP2 time IMO.