Flames recall promising youngster in wake of veteran's injury

The Flames have made a pair of roster moves in advance of their Saturday night game against New Jersey.  The team announced that forward Matt Coronato has been recalled from AHL Calgary and in a corresponding move, goalie Jacob Markstrom was placed on injured reserve.

Coronato broke camp with the big club and spent nearly four weeks with them to start the season before being sent down a little more than a month ago.  In his 10 games with the Flames, the 21-year-old picked up his first two NHL points, a goal and an assist.  However, he also struggled at the defensive end to the point where the team decided he’d be better off playing a top role with the Wranglers.

That move certainly worked well for Coronato as he has been quite productive with them so far, notching eight goals and ten assists in just 14 games in his first taste of AHL action.  That’s good for the second-best point-per-game average among AHL rookies.  Now he’ll get a chance to try to capitalize off that momentum with this promotion.

As for Markstrom, he suffered a fractured finger earlier this week, yielding a week-to-week injury designation.  Accordingly, his IR placement is largely procedural at this point as Dustin Wolf had already been brought up on emergency recall to take his place in Calgary’s goalie tandem.  The Flames are eligible to backdate the placement to Tuesday if they want, but considering he’s expected to be out for weeks, it’ll make no difference whether they do so or not.