The Flames announce their 2024-25 season-opening roster

The Calgary Flames have announced their opening roster for the 2024-25 season.

The Flames will begin the season with 23 players on their active roster – two goaltenders, eight defencemen and 13 forwards – and one player on their injury reserve list.

Here are the opening 23 active players:

Goaltenders Dustin Wolf (#32) and Dan Vladar (#80)

Defensemen Rasmus Andersson (#4), Kevin Bahl (#7), Tyson Barrie (#8), Jake Bean (#24), Joel Hanley (#44), MacKenzie Weegar (#52), Daniil Miromanov (#62) and Brayden Pachal (#94)

Forwards Jonathan Huberdeau (#10), Mikael Backlund (#11), Blake Coleman (#20), Kevin Rooney (#21), Matt Coronato (#27), Sam Honzek (#29), Anthony Mantha (#39), Adam Klapka (#43), Connor Zary (#47), Ryan Lomberg (#70), Martin Pospisil (#76), Nazem Kadri (#91) and Andrei Kuzmenko (96)

On the injury reserve list is Yegor Sharangovich (#17)

As announced on Saturday, Backlund is the captain, while Andersson, Weegar, Huberdeau, Kadri and Coleman are alternate captains.

14 players on this season’s opening active roster weren’t on last season’s:

• Wolf (promoted from AHL; 2019 draft pick)
• Bahl (acquired from New Jersey in the Jacob Markstrom trade)
• Barrie (free agent)
• Bean (free agent)
• Hanley (waiver claim from Dallas)
• Miromanov (acquired from Vegas in the Noah Hanifin trade)
• Pachal (waiver claim from Vegas)
• Rooney (free agent; was injured last season)
• Honzek (promoted from junior; 2023 draft pick)
• Mantha (free agent)
• Klapka (promoted from AHL; European free agent)
• Lomberg (free agent)
• Pospisil (promoted from AHL; 2018 draft pick)
• Kuzmenko (acquired from Vancouver in the Elias Lindholm trade)

That’s 61% of the roster that’s changed from a year ago. Heck, nine of them weren’t even in the organization at this time last year.

The Flames have $69,369,167 in cap commitments, which is $18,630,833 under the NHL’s $88 million cap ceiling.