2025/2026 Season Trade Rumours and Speculation Thread

[ResAlien]

Has this team ever flipped someone like that? I suspect Whitecloud is here until next year as are Coleman and Kadri. Rasmus was the only must move guy. I assume management views the others as needing a blow your socks off offer to send them anywhere and I'd be surprised if anyone was willing to do that

[Toonage]

Friedman likes to parrot the line "the best indicator of future behavior is past behavior".

The Flames traditionally keep their players to the bitter end unless they demand out.

I asked a similar question of Whitecloud and I think the best we all came up with was the waiving of Anton Stralman.

That said, I'm still very hopeful they actually are proactive with moving players with some term left (Coleman specifically).

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Toonage

Friedman likes to parrot the line "the best indicator of future behavior is past behavior".

The Flames traditionally keep their players to the bitter end unless they demand out.

I asked a similar question of Whitecloud and I think the best we all came up with was the waiving of Anton Stralman.

That said, I'm still very hopeful they actually are proactive with moving players with some term left (Coleman specifically).

I don't think you can attribute past behaviour of previous GMs to Conroy. But the Flames acquired Eddie Lack in the offseason and traded him in same year.

[Toonage]

I thought we had all wiped Eddie Lack from our collective memories. Well done.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Toonage

I thought we had all wiped Eddie Lack from our collective memories. Well done.

I have fond memories of Lack (on Vancouver).

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Legend of Lack - 4 games played as a Flame

Never forget.

[topfiverecords]

Eddie Lack's dad

[getbak]

The Flames acquired their franchise goalie when they traded for Eddie Lack...

2017-Jun-29: Eddie Lack, Ryan Murphy, and round 7 pick in the 2019 draft (Dustin Wolf) from Carolina to Calgary for Keegan Kanzig and round 6 pick in the 2019 draft (Kevin Wall)

Kanzig and Wall never played any NHL games. Murphy was bought out the day after the trade, and Lack played 4 games with the Flames before being traded for Dalton Prout, who played 20 unmemorable games for the Flames.

If not for Wolf, this would have been one of the most uneventful trades in Flames history.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Roughneck

With the Flames projected to need to spend $15M in 2027-28 just to reach the cap floor I don't think Huberdeau's contract is giving enough grief to give up an asset to get rid of it at this point, either.

It's that last 2-3 years where Huberdeau's contract is going to potentially have an awful affect on the franchise. If Huberdeau, with a more talented team around him, can return to being a 60+ player, it won't be the worst contract out there, as 60 point players will be earning $8 million/year by that point.

There's a chance that could happen. Our leading scorer has 35 points in 52 games this year, and Huberdeau is no the type of player to thrive getting points jamming pucks into the net.

If Huberdeau continues to play the way he is this year, he could end up takin up a roster space that a better player could have and be a total negative.

I guess we'll see how things go, but for now he's leading the tank and helping the team reach the floor. The worse the Flames are for the next couple of years, the better off the franchise is long term. And Huberdeau definitely helps in that regard.

[ComixZone]

Hopefully the losses continue to pile up, and The Rebiggler and Conroy realize that their “core” that they love is garbage, and we do see more trades.

Dreger has been pretty adamant that Kadri is more likely to get traded than not. Hopefully it comes to fruition…because it really has to. Flames need to turn these veterans over.

[Naitix]

Even though im happy with the Vegas deal, man its so annoying how close we were to an absolutely robbery with Boston. Lohrei + Poitras + 1st would be nice. There is no way Andersson get close to 9 per year from Vegas I would think

[dino7c]

You still pretending the Flames tried to win this year and failed? Look at their summer this was Conroy's plan all along

[GioforPM]

^ Huberdeau's contract, if bought out 3 years early (after next season), saves $2.4 in the first year, -$100K in the second, and $4.4 in the third. It's actually the most cost effective time to buy him out aside from his very last year. And still not really that effective.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Naitix

Even though im happy with the Vegas deal, man its so annoying how close we were to an absolutely robbery with Boston. Lohrei + Poitras + 1st would be nice. There is no way Andersson get close to 9 per year from Vegas I would think

Only real difference is the 2nd instead of Poitras.

[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by blankall

It's that last 2-3 years where Huberdeau's contract is going to potentially have an awful affect on the franchise. If Huberdeau, with a more talented team around him, can return to being a 60+ player, it won't be the worst contract out there, as 60 point players will be earning $8 million/year by that point.

There's a chance that could happen. Our leading scorer has 35 points in 52 games this year, and Huberdeau is no the type of player to thrive getting points jamming pucks into the net.

If Huberdeau continues to play the way he is this year, he could end up takin up a roster space that a better player could have and be a total negative.

I guess we'll see how things go, but for now he's leading the tank and helping the team reach the floor. The worse the Flames are for the next couple of years, the better off the franchise is long term. And Huberdeau definitely helps in that regard.

Seems unlikely to matter even by the end of it unless the Flames go hog wild with trades or free agents.

Pretty well any from here on out will be cheap until Huberdeau's contract end. Wolf, Bahl and Coronato are signed through the end of Huberdeau's contract, so you'd only have guys like Gridin, Parekh, Honzek and Kuznetsov in terms of roster players who may have big salary increases over what's left of Huberdeau's contract.

[Royle9]

Originally Posted by getbak

Have you heard anything about the likelihood of either flipping Whitecloud or if acquiring him has opened the door to possibly moving another right-shot D?

The short answer is its complicated.
Flexibility is the the one word answer I got when I asked about that scenario shortly after the trade happened.

The Flames are obviously very high on him, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record and triggering some of us here including myself, management and ownership LOVE when someone is happy to be here and wants to be apart of a rebiggle.

However, to break it down further from what I've heard, they wouldn't rule out trading him for the right price/offer if someone steps up and sends one. There's lots of interest, but I think right now nobody has tabled anything worth what they'd be willing to give up Zach for. With that said, I think they would explore moving a Hanley or Pachal with the offers out there right now instead.

Love it or hate it, Craig values guys who want to be here and share in his vision for what he wants the Flames to be. So when he makes a trade for a guy who then comes out and is excited to be apart of this team, I think it muddles up the water a bit, but doesn't completely rule it out. If a team steps up and offers a late 1st or something then I think he pulls the trigger.

Little bit off topic, but I will add that the Flames don't appear to be chasing that Maloney "salvage the year" mode idea any more, I think the writing is finally on the wall.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Bourque's Twin

This is why it’s critical we suck for 2 seasons and we’re halfway there on one. Having Wolf, McKenna, DuPont, Parekh, Gridin, Reschny, Coronato plus plus would set us up to be a contender.

Love that lineup. If the Flames could somehow get a top line centre in there, that would likely seal the deal.

[rhino]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

^ Huberdeau's contract, if bought out 3 years early (after next season), saves $2.4 in the first year, -$100K in the second, and $4.4 in the third. It's actually the most cost effective time to buy him out aside from his very last year. And still not really that effective.

Cap shouldn’t be an issue in the next 4 years….. why buy him out other than a roster spot?

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by blankall

It's that last 2-3 years where Huberdeau's contract is going to potentially have an awful affect on the franchise. If Huberdeau, with a more talented team around him, can return to being a 60+ player, it won't be the worst contract out there, as 60 point players will be earning $8 million/year by that point.

There's a chance that could happen. Our leading scorer has 35 points in 52 games this year, and Huberdeau is no the type of player to thrive getting points jamming pucks into the net.

If Huberdeau continues to play the way he is this year, he could end up takin up a roster space that a better player could have and be a total negative.

I guess we'll see how things go, but for now he's leading the tank and helping the team reach the floor. The worse the Flames are for the next couple of years, the better off the franchise is long term. And Huberdeau definitely helps in that regard.

Except a player getting 60points getting 1st line playing time and 1st PP time is nit oarticulary good, and neither is his team.

And Huberdeau has been a 60 point player on Calgary once in 4 seasons. And he’s not getting any younger.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by rhino

Cap shouldn’t be an issue in the next 4 years….. why buy him out other than a roster spot?

That's the only reason.