2025/2026 Season Trade Rumours and Speculation Thread

[Flamesfan05]

Originally Posted by YyjFlames

Yakemchuk is at least three years from reaching that ceiling and may never get there. Andersson is at peak and will be for the next four-five years or more.

Tkachuk's contract expires in three years, and if they're not making long playoff runs in the next two, they'll be where Calgary was around 2021 and 2022 with their core jumping ship and pushing them back into a longer term rebuild.

That's why.

That makes sense

Still they have Sanderson and Chabot who can be as good if not better than Andersson, I don’t think they need to sell their future for someone like that yet

[YyjFlames]

Originally Posted by Flamesfan05

That makes sense

Still they have Sanderson and Chabot who can be as good if not better than Andersson, I don’t think they need to sell their future for someone like that yet

Those guys are both lefties. They really don't have a top pairing RD at the NHL level.

I don't see this getting done because Andersson would have to want to go there and sign an extension, but the fit and timing is all kinds of right.

[3thirty]

All three (4,20,91) are playing well which is good to see. I know they look at the history of a player, but playing well now can't help but increase the value.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by gvitaly

I'm not trying to take away from your point, but they picked Sid in the 2005 draft, which was the draft right after the lockout. I believe they had something like a 1/16 chance to get Sid, which is my long way of saying those lucky SOBs.

If anything then Pittsburgh tanked to get Fluery, when they finished 2nd last in the standings. Even when Florida won the Fluery draft lottery, PIT traded for that pick. They continued the tank in the following year when they finished last in the Ovechkin/Malkin draft.

They did finish dead last the season before the lockout and would have likely gotten 1st OA the next year if not for the lockout. Of course after the lockout, other teams didn't want to use that season to determine the odds, at which time would have made it very likely Pittsburgh would receive the 1st OA under the rules at the time. It always struck me funny that even with the post-lockout 1/16 odds, they still got the 1st OA anyway. I think it's one of those things that fuels the conspiracy theory about that draft being rigged. It was just so unlikely to work out like that.

Some teams just get all the luck.

[Royle9]

Greetings from Mexico!

Calgary was very high on Yakemchuk during the draft, I wouldn’t be surprised if they made a move for him if available.
He’s definitely not in the short term plans for Ottawa, if they could some how convince Rasmus to sign there long term that would be something I could see them interested in.

Otherwise not a lot of updates, still the 3 hot names out there and just waiting for Calgary to green light it. No teams making hard offers yet, just lots of teams keeping tabs on if our guys are available.

I suspect anyone could be available for the right price, outside of the untouchable young guys. Flames open to young roster players but preference to A+ prospects and picks, Calgary has its eyes on a number of guys early on, I’ve been told there’s 5-6 guys they like who are probably expected to go top 10.