The Calgary Flames have had another season filled with trade speculation and contract disputes. Rasmus Andersson seems to be on their way to the city after contract discussions failed and rumors before, during and after the design. The Flames have also been in long discussions with Connor Zary and his camp about an extension. That is rumors in the three -year reach, although the training camp is approaching and nothing is being completed.
While the flames seem to go from another part of their former core and sign a bridge agreement with one of their future pieces, we thought it wasn’t a better time to take a walk through the memory. We wanted fans to play the general manager of Armchair this week and choose one Flames transaction in the past decade that they would do again afterwards. We asked, you answered.
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Do a transaction again
We have presented the question below to our readers to answer with one transaction that the flames have done in the past decade that they would do again:
2019: Tkachuk Bridge -Deal
Although there was no poll this week, there was a clear winner. The majority of the answers surrounded the Matthew Tkachuk Bridge deal in 2019. We all know what the Trade Tkachuck did in 2022 the Flames franchise and how successful the former first Rounder in South Florida has been. But the reason for Tkachuk’s departure goes much deeper than the decision of Johnny Gaudreau in July 2022.
In 2019, Tkachuk signed a three -year extension of $ 21.0 million with the Flames that was recharged with a cap of $ 9.0 million in his last year. The deal gave Tkachuk all arbitration leverage in its last year, with his qualifying offer equal to that $ 9.0 million base salary in 2021-22. This was clearly not a choice that made the flames because they wanted it; They had to.
The only reason why Tkachuk signed the Brugdeal in 2019 is that the Flames did not have the cap space/willingness to acquire him to sign it in the long term. A contract with a weight of the books that season was veteran wing Michael Frolik’s with a cap -hit of $ 4.3 million. The Flames went out and signed the 27-year-old winger for a five-year contract in 2015 after a 44-point campaign with the Winnipeg Jets.
By 2018–19, Frolik had fallen into the line-up and Tkachuk had emerged as a top-six player. Despite the fact that a young, budding superstar in Tkachuk is eligible for an eight -year extension, the Flames decided to hold Frolik’s contract in an attempt to keep the team competitive. In 2019-2020, Frolik scored 10 points while he mainly played on the fourth line before he was traded to the Buffalo Sabres in the deadline for a fourth round pick to erase his salary.
It was not even a whole year after signing the bridge deal of Tkachuk that Brad Treliving dumped the Frolik contract. The flames should not have signed Frolik in the first place and should have exchanged it earlier. The process of the Flames franchise would undoubtedly be much different if they were willing to lock Tkachuk to that eight-year extension in 2019.
2017: Hamonic Trade
This one is so bad that I am almost gagging when I think about it.
The Flames send a first rounder of 2018, a second-rounder of 2018, and a conditional second rounder from 2019-2020 to the New York Islanders for the 26-year-old defender Travis Hamonic and a conditional fourth rounder. Even at the time the flames paid enormously. The first to go to the islanders changed to Noah Dobson; Maybe you have heard from him. He was recently traded to the Montreal Canadiens, who acquired him with the help of the 2025 first round Pick from the Flames they acquired next to Sean Monahan, but we will go into that later.
Hamonic had just arrived from a difficult season in 2016–17, played 49 games and 14 points and a -21. In 2017–18, Hamonic ran alongside TJ Brodie in the top-four of the Flames, but did not meet his $ 3.86 million cap hit.
His contract was again a terribly risky acquisition in the failed attempt of treliving to remain competitive, which led to an inability to extend Tkachuk in the long term in 2019. The Hamonic contract was on year five of a seven-year-old deal that signed the islanders from his ELC. Hamonic has never met expectations in Calgary, even though he gave some solid second pairing minutes over his term of office with the flames, which was plagued by injuries.
Hamonic signed with the Vancouver Canucks in 2020 as an unlimited free agent with zero assets recovered for the flames. He was traded to the senators of Ottawa in 2022 for a third-rounder and currently has a one-year contract of $ 1.1 million with the SENS for 2025-26. Au. These hurt to write.
2021–2022: No Gaudreau extension
The decision felt around the NHL world in 2022, Johnny Gaudreau was on his way to Columbus, Ohio, to play for the Blue Jackets with a seven-year contract $ 9.75 million after testing a free agency. The 28-year-old came from a career year of 115 points and the consideration of Hart Trophy.
The previous season the camp of Calgary and Gaudreau began to discuss an extension that eventually went to the last seconds before the Free Office opened on July 1, 2022. Calgary had the opportunity to expand Gaudreau on an AAV of $ 9.0 million for an eight-year-old deal before the 2021-22 season started. Instead of paying to extend him in the long term, Treliving and the Flames were looking for a more team -friendly deal given the chance of the Flames to compete, and this time he was not a joke.
But Johnny came from a team -friendly six -year -old deal of $ 6.75 million. He had to increase a wage increase and instead of playing their franchise player, he went outside and earned an even greater increase. Although Gaudreau’s departure in the Free Office was ultimately a matter of personal choice, the lack of dedication of the Flames in 2021 was ultimately.
Gaudreau’s departure was the last drop for Matthew Tkachuk and the absolute last hope that the flames had to sign him again the following season. Tkachuk’s trade request and departure to Florida rewrite the hockey history.
2022: Monahan to Montreal
The icing at the top, and everything I can gather before I feel physically sick that I am a fan of this franchise: Sean Monahan and a conditional pick from the first round 2025-26 for the Montreal Canadiens for a flat gorage and a signed care price stick (future considerations).
At the time, Monahan came from a brutal piece of hip injuries that led to a considerable amount of time on the IR, then LTIR and surgery. With both Matthew Tkachuk and Johnny Gaudreau who left the franchise, Brad Treliving had to work quickly to pick up the pieces and dump salary to gain a large fish in a free desk. Monahan and his cap of $ 6,375 million were the obvious choice. His injury history and the despair of the Flames made it a delicious situation for the reconstruction of teams such as the Montreal Canadiens. The movement freed space for the Flames to sign Nazem Kadri to a seven -year contract of $ 7.0 million in 2022.
Monahan only played 25 games in 2022–23 with the Canadiens before he ended for the season and an operation, this time on his groin. The 2023–24 season was a bounce back for Monahan, who scored 35 points in 49 games for Montreal before he was treated in the deadline for Winnipeg for a first Rounder of 2024 and a conditional fourth-rounder.
So if we keep track of here, they are two picks of the first round that the Canadiens who were acquired for Sean Monahan, while they give up absolutely nothing. As far as the Flames are concerned, Jacob Markstrom took the signed stick to New Jersey, and that Gatorade has long since disappeared.
The conditional choice The Flames sent the Canadiens was traded on the New York Islanders on this past design alongside Montreal’s own first round Pick and Emil Heineman. The Canadiens received Noah Dobson, a Premier D partner for their budding superstar, Lane Hutson. Dobson was selected in 2018 by the islanders with the first round of the Flames they acquired in the Travis Hamonic Trade.
Wow, brad, maybe pizzas are more your speed. Here’s the next decade, Flames fans. Good luck, Toronto.
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