Folks, sometimes young hockey players are immediately plucked from obscurity and dropped into the highest level of the game. Sometimes, though, they gotta grind to get there.
The development cycle between the Calgary Flames’ affiliate teams works. While this might not be the case for every player involved, there are stories that come out even disappointing seasons that prove this.
Gang, in last year’s draft, the Calgary Flames made two selections in the seventh round. In the 2026 NHL Draft, though, they don’t own a selection in the final round of the proceedings as the event approaches.
Arsenii Sergeev’s story with the Calgary Flames organization this year is perhaps one of the most positive storylines we’ve seen come out of the 2025-26 season.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
The story of the Calgary Flames’ Arsenii Sergeev is one of those interesting goalie paths that doesn’t follow a straight line. It bends, shifts levels, and, this season, briefly arrived in the NHL before circling back to the AHL again.
The 2025-26 season has ended for the Calgary Flames. But with a pair of games left on the docket for their minor league affiliate, the Flames made a trio of roster moves on Friday morning, sending goaltender Arsenii Sergeev and forwards Rory Kerins and Aydar Suniev back to the American Hockey League’s Calgary Wranglers.
The Calgary Flames came into the final game of their season with only draft lottery positioning at stake. With a rookie netminder between the pipes, playing
The Calgary Flames got plenty of highlight reel contributions from a trio of rookies to topple the Los Angeles Kings 3-1 in the regular season finale. CF% – 35.49%|| SCF% – 28.72%|| HDCF% – 23.48%|| xGF% – 19.89% It’s a Team Game – The story of this game, start to finish, begins and ends with rookie netminder Arsenii Sergeev.
Arsenii Sergeev made 27 saves, several of the spectacular variety, in his NHL debut to backstop the host Calgary Flames to a 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night in the teams' final game of the regular season.
The Calgary Flames entered the final game of the season with really nothing at stake, aside from draft lottery positioning. The Los Angeles Kings began the evening with perhaps a chance of avoiding Colorado in the first round if the out-of-town scoreboard broke their way.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The Calgary Flames have recalled goaltender Arsenii Sergeev from the AHL’s Calgary Wranglers on an emergency basis ahead of their 2025-26 season finale against the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday.
The Calgary Flames have drafted numerous Russian goaltenders over the past six drafts. It all started when they selected Daniil Chechelev in the fourth round of the 2020 draft.
Very seldom do NHL prospects move straight from point A to point B in their development. Sure, you get the odd duck every now and then who makes a three-course meal out of every challenge thrown their way.
Gang, sometimes I feel like it’s tough to judge goaltenders entirely by their statistics. When it comes to the various young netminders in the Calgary Flames pipeline, context for their performances seems pretty important.
When you look at Arsenii Sergeev’s page on Elite Prospects, two things stand out pretty quickly. First, he’s played in a lot of different leagues since arriving in North America as a 16 year old in 2019.
Recalled from the ECHL’s Rapid City Rush on Dec. 13, Calgary Flames prospect goaltender Arsenii Sergeev delivered a memorable American Hockey League debut, stopping 52 of 53 shots to earn a 2–1 win for the Calgary Wranglers over the San Diego Gulls at Scotiabank Saddledome.
After the Rapid City Rush pulled off an overtime win on Wednesday, they were back in Allen on Friday night to take on the Allen Americans. Ahead of last night’s game, the Rapid City Rush completed their trade with the Iowa Heartlanders, acquiring rookie forward Matt Hubbarde to finalize the earlier deal involving defenseman Alexander Stensson.
The Calgary Flames have a new netminder between the pipes for their American Hockey League team starting in 2025-26. Arsenii Sergeev signed his entry-level deal in the middle of April and ranks as FlamesNation’s 14th-best prospect in the system.
Over the past several years, the Calgary Flames have stocked up on a lot of players from Russia. If you take a look at the club’s reserve list, you’ll find promising Russian goaltenders like Arsenii Sergeev, promising Russian defenders like Yan Kuznetsov, and promising Russian forwards like Matvei Gridin and Aydar Suniev.
One of the top goaltenders in college hockey this year has signed his first NHL contract. On Monday, the Calgary Flames announced the team has signed goaltender Arsenii Sergeev to a two-year, entry-level contract.
On April 2, 2024, Arsenii Sergeev announced via Instagram that he was transferring to the Penn State hockey team after two seasons at UConn. Nearly a year
The final day of the NCAA Men’s Hockey Regionals saw things end with a bang. Two college hockey blue bloods locked horns while a couple of programs fought it out for their first-ever trip to the Frozen Four on Sunday.
Penn State hockey is headed to its first Frozen Four. The Nittany Lions continued a marvelous 2025 run, defeating UConn 3-2 in overtime Sunday in the Allentown regional final of the NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament.
Penn State hockey might be the hottest team in any sport, not just college ice hockey. Now the Nittany Lions, whose season looked lost in December, are just one one from reaching their first Frozen Four.
The Calgary Flames sure love their Russian netminders. As mentioned in the Kirill Zaurbin article from a few days ago, the Flames have picked four goaltenders in the past five National Hockey League drafts, with all of them being from Russia.