Training camp has officially begun. It’s that time of year when young players look to make an impression in hopes of securing a job in the big leagues.
Training camp has officially begun, and we got our first glimpse of the Calgary Flames’ training camp rosters. It’s a pretty standard configuration split between what you’d consider the NHL guys and more or less the AHL guys.
The Calgary Flames enter the 2026–27 season with a defence corps that looks dramatically different from the group that began last season. After trading
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
Folks, if you’ve been following either us or our colleagues at Daily Faceoff over the last little while, you’ve probably noticed that July and August were Prospects Season.
After dropping two spots in the lottery, the Calgary Flames entered the 2026 NHL Draft in possession of the No. 6 overall pick. The Flames had picked in that spot on five previous occasions since relocating from Atlanta in 1980, and they’d selected a forward each time before.
Friends, the National Hockey League – and pro hockey in general – can be a tough place to make a living. Often, it’s not about whether you are good enough to play at a certain level, but whether or not there’s a role available that matches your specific skillset.
Welcome to The Win Column 2026 Calgary Flames Prospect Rankings. Ranked 6th on our list is the 75th overall pick in the 2023 NHL Draft: Hunter Brzustewicz.
A Calgary Flame is the most loyal fan of a future Los Angeles King. The sentence is stunning, until you learn the identity of each player: Hunter Brzustewicz is the Flame; Henry Brzustewicz is the King.
Craig Conroy and the Calgary Flames have been busy this off-season adding to their blueline both now and in the future. First, Conroy acquired 22 year old, right shot Simon Nemec from the New Jersey Devils for three draft picks and Etienne Morin.
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.
Hunter Brzustewicz was an addition to the Calgary Flames prospect pool via the famous trade that sent Elias Lindholm to Vancouver in 2024. Now, with two years in the organization, his story has expanded beyond that.
The Los Angeles Kings have signed 2025 first-round pick Henry Brzustewicz to a three-year, entry-level contract set to begin in the 2026-27 season. He will complete the 2025-26 season on a professional try-out contract with the AHL’s Ontario Reign.
Two top prospects will bolster the Calgary Flames roster after shaking up their lineup at the Trade Deadline. Winger Matvei Gridin and defenseman Hunter Brzustewicz have both been recalled per a team announcement.
Hunter Brzustewicz is in just his second year of professional hockey and second season in the Calgary Flames’ organization. As a Vancouver Canucks draft pick, he was traded before he could play a game in his draft organization.
Good news, everybody! The 2026 Winter Olympics are here. The bad news is that the Calgary Flames don’t play games for three weeks. Heck, they can’t even practice until Feb.
As expected, the Calgary Flames made a pair of roster moves following their final game before the Olympic break. Per the club, they’ve assigned forward Matvei Gridin and defenceman Hunter Brzustewicz to the American Hockey League’s Calgary Wranglers.
On Sunday night at the palatial Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary Flames blueliner Hunter Brzustewicz did something he had hoped to do for years. He scored a goal in the National Hockey League.
It didn’t take long for Hunter Brzustewicz to make an impact for the Calgary Flames. Called up earlier this week due to an injury to Jake Bean, the 21 year old defenceman played his first game of the 2025-26 season last night against the Red Wings.
Hunter Brzustewicz is an intriguing prospect who’s facing a fairly critical development year; in other words, this season will be more telling than any previous year about what he can actually project to be as an NHLer.
Welcome back to The Win Column Calgary Flames Prospect Rankings. Up next is defenceman Hunter Brzustewicz. The 20-year-old is coming off a solid season with the AHL Calgary Wranglers.
He was a major focus of the January trade that sent Elias Lindholm to the Vancouver Canucks, serving as the top prospect in a deal that also contained a first-round pick and NHL winger Andrei Kuzmenko, among other pieces.
One of the extraordinary things about following hockey prospects closely is getting the chance to follow a player’s career through its most important stages.
The calendar has officially turned its page into January, marking the beginning of the New Year. One thing that continues to look quite familiar to the year 2023, however, is Hunter Brzustewicz putting up points.