[News] Flames cut 8 players. 61 remain in camp

[sureLoss]

https://www.nhl.com/flames/news/flam...?tid=282300716

The Calgary Flames announced today that they have assigned the following eight players to their respective junior clubs: Jake Christiansen (Everett/WHL), D'Artagnan Joly (Baie-Comeau/QMJHL), Igor Merezhko (Lethbridge/WHL), Brayden Pachal (Prince Albert/WHL), Merrick Rippon (Ottawa/OHL), Milos Roman (Vancouver/WHL), Adam Ruzicka (Sarnia/OHL), and Dmitry Zavgorodniy (Rimouski/QMJHL).

Calgary has 61 players remaining at training camp (7x goalies, 20x defensemen, 34x forwards).

[Ozy_Flame]

Interesting. I thought Ruzicka and Big Z would have made it through the first round of cuts.

[killer_carlson]

I thought Ruzicka and zavgorodny would have made it another week.

Ruzicka hopefully gets some good skating instruction this year.

[The Boy Wonder]

was impressed with Zavgorodny but I guess this just gives him more time to get ready for OHL season since he was going back anyways

[TheIronMaiden]

Makes sense that all the CHL players were cut. The regular season starts tomorrow for the WHL.

[sureLoss]

Here is what is left:

* indicates waivers exempt

Goalies 7
31 Glass PTO
32 Gillies *
33 Rittich
41 Smith
70 Schneider *
72 McDonald *
82 Parsons *


Defence 20
4 Andersson *
5 Giordano
6 Prout
7 Brodie
24 Hamonic
26 Stone
36 Paliotta AHL *
37 Siemens PTO
38 Samuelsson PTO
42 Valimaki *
43 Falk PTO
46 Hogstrom *
55 Hanifin
58 Kylington *
61 Kulak
68 Ollas Mattsson AHL *
71 Svedberg PTO
84 O'Brien AHL *
85 Healey *
96 Sproul PTO


Forwards 34
10 Ryan
11 Backlund
13 Gaudreau
15 Foo *
16 Peluso
18 Neal
19 Tkachuk
20 Lazar
21 Hathaway
23 Monahan
27 Czarnik
28 Lindholm
39 Rychel
44 Graovac
45 Klimchuk
47 Phillips *
48 Fischer AHL unsigned draft pick *
49 Shaw PTO
50 Ehliz *
51 Sabourin PTO
53 Robinson
54 Brule PTO
56 Lomberg *
59 Dube *
60 Pollock *
67 Frolik
77 Jankowski
79 McMurty AHL *
80 Gawdin *
88 Mangipane *
89 Quine
90 Auger PTO
93 Bennett
97 Ernst ATO *

2018-09-13 Cuts
Frakas ATO returned to junior

2018-09-20 Cuts
57 Christansen ATO * returned to junior
52 Joly unsigned draft pick * returned to junior
98 Merezhko ATO * returned to junior
83 Pachal ATO * returned to junior
87 Rippon ATO * returned to junior
65 Roman unsigned draft pick * returned to junior
63 Ruzicka unsigned draft pick * returned to junior
78 Zavgorodniy unsigned draft pick * returned to junior

[Funkhouser]

So is it Big Z or Lil' Z??

[PugnaciousIntern]

Meh. Although I agree that those two played well, in the end of the day they were never going to play for the club to start the season and training camp isn't the time to throw players bones for good work that despite being impressive, isn't good enough to meet the final goal - selecting the team members and building cohesiveness within those final players.

I'm a fan of big and early cuts.

[Resolute 14]

Seven goalies still in camp makes no sense whatsoever.

[Flames Draft Watcher]

Nothing surprising. None of those junior players were pushing to make the team

[Jiri Hrdina]

When does the AHL camp open? I suspect when that happens there would be another big round?

[keenan87]

I think we will see a massive group of players cut after the next game.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Funkhouser

So is it Big Z or Lil' Z??

Medium Z?

[sureLoss]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

When does the AHL camp open? I suspect when that happens there would be another big round?

Starting tomorrow you can put players on waivers for assignment to the AHL.

I believe AHL camps will start next week.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by keenan87

I think we will see a massive group of players cut after the next game.

It probably will depend on how long it takes the main roster to recover from their jet lag. I can imagine that they Flames Guaranteed some of the PTOs a set number of games. With 6 preseason games remaining it is likely that we wont see a massive cut for the next couple of games.

[dammage79]

Surprised at Zav. But he is 18. He showed well enough IMO. Lots to get excited about there. Plus he's going to play on a line with 2020 potential 1st OA pick Lafreniere. So he should be having a couple of killer seasons in the Q

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

Seven goalies still in camp makes no sense whatsoever.

I really hope they aren't seriously considering Glass as a challenger for the backup position.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

Seven goalies still in camp makes no sense whatsoever.

Well, in fairness Smith, Gillies and Schneider are in China, so its really only 4 goalies in Camp.

[Toonage]

Glass & McDonald will probably see some time as backups to Rittich over the next 2 games. Maybe get in a period like Parsons did.

[Hot_Flatus]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Interesting. I thought Ruzicka and Big Z would have made it through the first round of cuts.

They want these guys to have great year's in Junior so not surprising they'd want them to be at their team's respective junior training camps as long as possible.