Former Calgary Flames who are still on the 2025 NHL free agent market

We are a month past the beginning of free agency on July 1. Over a billion dollars in contract value have been handed to free agents since then. Despite this, there are still quite a few players looking for new homes. Some of those names are former Flames. Let’s take a look at some of those former Calgary Flames who are still on the free agent market:

Oliver Kylington

It sounded like the Flames and Oliver Kylington were headed towards a contract extension last summer. However, Kylington and his agent overplayed their hand, and the Flames pivoted in a different direction by signing Calgary product Jake Bean.

Kylington signed a one-year, $1.05M AAV deal with the Colorado Avalanche. Hampered with injury, Kylignton got into 13 games with the Avs, scoring four points. He was packaged alongside Calum Ritchie and a 2026 first-rounder and sent to the New York Islanders in exchange for Brock Nelson and William Dufour. Kylington was immediately dealt by the New York Islanders to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for future considerations. After one point in six games with the Ducks to round out the 2024–25 season, Kylington is a UFA. I would guess he might be in PTO territory or look at options overseas now.

Travis Hamonic

Since leaving the Flames following the 2019–20 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 famously traded by the Canucks to the Senators at the 2022 NHL trade deadline in exchange for a 2022 third-round pick.

It was leaked that the Canucks didn’t think they could get anything in return for him, as the Senators were the only team interested. The Canucks actually waived Hamonic just five months prior. At least the Sens got some useful (?) seasons out of Hamonic before he departed.

Trevor Lewis

After leaving the Flames shortly after Darryl Sutter was let go after the 2022–23 season, Trevor Lewis returned to the Los Angeles Kings. Lewis spent parts of twelve seasons with the Kings, so it wasn’t unsurprising that he went back.

He played 82 and 60 games with the Kings over the past two seasons and got into a bit of playoff action. Lewis played in his 1000th NHL game with the Kings in 2024–25. The 38-year-old has mentioned that he still wants to keep playing. Is there a fit with his hometown, Utah Mammoth?

Kevin Rooney

“The Roondawg” is looking for a new home after spending the last three seasons in Calgary. Kevin Rooney had an up-and-down tenure with the club, spending the first season in the AHL for most of the year. He did factor to be useful in a fourth-line role and the penalty kill last season. I would imagine a team bites on him as a depth forward soon.

Tyson Barrie

Barrie, a PTO with the Flames last season, turned training camp into a one-year, $1.25M deal. He spent the majority of the time as the team’s eighth defenceman, factoring into 13 games and scoring three points. The Flames placed Barrie on waivers in February. He spent the rest of the season with the Wranglers, notching five points in 11 games, and didn’t factor into any AHL playoff games.

I would suspect Barrie is likely looking at another PTO or overseas. He is “good in the room,” so maybe a team with a poor culture brings him in. The Chicago Blackhawks?

Mark Giordano

Mark Giordano hasn’t officially retired from the NHL, but he didn’t sign a contract for the 2024–25 season. Now 41, Giordano last played in the 2023–24 season with the Toronto Maple Leafs, where he put up nine points in 46 games.

Giordano joined the TSN panel at last year’s NHL trade deadline, perhaps testing the waters to see what the media side of the game looked like. I would expect to hear him sign a one-day contract to retire as a Flame sometime in the near future.

Derek Ryan

While not official, it is speculated that Derek Ryan is retiring from the NHL. After leaving the Flames as a UFA following the 2020–21 season, Ryan signed with the Edmonton Oilers. Now 38, Ryan spent the last four seasons with the Edmonton Oilers. He split last season between the Oilers and their AHL affiliate, the Bakersfield Condors, after he cleared waivers in January.

Ryan was an underrated bottom-six centre in his time as a Flame. A rare late bloomer into the NHL, he spent parts of ten seasons in the NHL.