We are a month after the start of the Free Office on July 1. Since then, more than a billion dollars in contract value have been handed over to free agents. Nevertheless, there are still quite a few players looking for new houses. Some of those names are former flames. Let’s look at some of those former Calgary Flames that are still on the free agent market:
Oliver Kylington
It sounded like the Flames and Oliver Kylington were on their way to a contract extension last summer. Kylington and his agent, however, overpowered their hand, and the flames turned in a different direction by signing Calgary product Jake Bean.
Kylington signed a one -year -old, $ 1.05 million AAV deal with the Colorado Avalanche. Nuisance with injury, Kylignton came in 13 games with the AVS and scored four points. He was packed alongside Calum Ritchie and a first Rounder from 2026 and sent to the New York Islanders in exchange for Brock Nelson and William Dufour. Kylington was immediately administered by the New York Islanders to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for future considerations. After a point in six games with the ducks to complete the 2024–25 season, Kylington is a UFA. I think he might be in PTO territory or now looks at options abroad.
Travis Hamonic
Since leaving the flames after the 2019-202020 season, Travis Hamonic has spent one and a half seasons with the Vancouver Canucks and the last three and a half seasons with the Ottawa Senators. The 34-year-old was famous by the Canucks to the senators during the NHL-Handelsdeadline of 2022 in exchange for a third round of 2022.
It was leaked that the Canucks did not think they could get anything in exchange for him, because the senators were the only team interested. The Canucks really waived Hamonic five months earlier. At least the Sens received a number of useful (?) Seasons from Hamonic before he left.
Trevor Lewis
After leaving the flames shortly after Darryl Sutter was released after the 2022-23 season, Trevor Lewis returned to the Los Angeles Kings. Lewis spent parts of twelve seasons with the kings, so it was not surprising that he went back.
He played 82 and 60 games with the kings in the last two seasons and got a little play -off action. Lewis played in his 1000th NHL match with the Kings in 2024–25. The 38-year-old has said that he still wants to keep playing. Does his hometown fit, Utah Mammoth?
Kevin Rooney
“The Rondawg” is looking for a new house after having spent the last three seasons in Calgary. Kevin Rooney had an up and down term of office at the club and spent the first season in the AHL most of the year. He took into account to be useful in a fourth line roll and the Penalty Kill last season. I would imagine that a team quickly bites him as a depth.
Tyson Barrie
Barrie, a PTO with the Flames last season, changed training camp to a one -year -old deal of $ 1.25 million. He spent most of the time as the eighth defender of the team, charged in 13 games and scored three points. The flames placed Barrie remotely in February. He spent the rest of the season with the Wranglers, noted five points in 11 games and did not take AHL Playoff games into account.
I suspect that Barrie will probably look at another PTO or overseas. He is ‘good in the room’, so maybe a team with a bad culture brings him inside. The Chicago Blackhawks?
Mark Giordano
Mark Giordano did not officially retire at the NHL, but he has not signed a contract for the 2024-25 season. Now 41 Giordano played for the last time in the 2023–24 season with the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he placed nine points in 46 games.
Giordano joined the TSN panel during last year’s NHL -Handeldeadline, perhaps testing the waters to see what the media side of the game looked like. I would expect that he would sign a one -day contract to retire somewhere in the near future as a flame.
Derek Ryan
Although not officially, it is speculated that Derek Ryan withdraws from the NHL. After leaving the flames like a UFA after the 2020-21 season, Ryan signed with the Edmonton Oilers. Now 38, Ryan spent the last four seasons with the Edmonton Oilers. Last season he split between the oilers and their AHL branch, the Bakersfield Condors, after he had released exemptions in January.
Ryan was an underrated lower six center in his time as a flame. A rare late bloomer in the NHL, he spent parts of ten seasons in the NHL.
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