The Calgary Flames have made a flurry of roster moves over the past day or so, so we thought we’d do a quick rundown of what’s happened. The Flames placed Jake Bean on the injury reserve list on Thursday.
The Calgary Flames summoned defensive prospect Hunter Brzustewicz from the American Hockey League on Monday morning, prompting some pondering regarding why he was called up.
Welcome back to this week’s installment of Armchair GM with Jess. Today, we continue to unpack more trades proposed by Puckpedia users for the Calgary Flames.
While the Louisville baseball program is currently preparing for a run in the upcoming College World Series, they continue to make progress with shaping their 2026 roster via the transfer portal.
NHL head coaches have to hire good assistants. They have to set an overarching philosophy, juggle lineup configurations, and do the kind of “man management” that is impossible to track statistically.
Selected 13th overall in 2016, Jake Bean hasn’t had the typical career of a player drafted that high. The left-shot defenceman’s best season coming into the 2024-25 season was back in 2021-22 with the Columbus Blue Jackets, where he scored seven goals and 25 points in 67 games.
Rewind back to the summer of 2024. The Calgary Flames were rather quiet in free agency, opting to add low-cost, depth players over big-game hunting. It was a smart move on the team’s part, given the stage of their rebuild.
Connor Bedard scored his 100th career NHL point as the Chicago Blackhawks (14–28–2) lost to the Calgary Flames (21–14–7) 5–2 Monday night at the United Center.
The Calgary Flames were victorious on Tuesday evening, beating the Montreal Canadiens in overtime by a 3-2 score. But they finished the game down a player, as forward Anthony Mantha left the game after the first period with an apparent lower body injury.
We’ve arrived on Day 10 of the NHL’s unrestricted free agency period, and it’s safe to say most of the activity is behind us. Practically every free agent of note has signed with one of the league’s 32 teams.
Free agency opened up July 1 as usual and throughout the entire league over $1 billion was committed to contracts. The Calgary Flames – and general manager Craig Conroy – played things safe not going too scorched earth on any signings.
The Calgary Flames have signed defenseman Jake Bean to a two-year contract, Daily Faceoff hockey insider Frank Seravalli reported Monday morning. Bean, 26, collected four goals and 13 points while averaging 16:19 of ice time in 72 games with the Columbus Blue Jackets during the 2023-24 regular season.
It was a hot start to the season for Bean, with one goal and one assist in the first two games, but the rest quickly became forgettable. With 3 points in his first 6 games, he only managed to add 10 more in the remaining 66 games.
The injury problems continue for the Columbus Blue Jackets, as the team is losing one of its blueliners for the remaining six games of the regular season.
Brad Malone is set to break the AHL Bakersfield Condors games played record on Saturday. Malone, 34, joined the Oilers organization ahead of the 2017-18 season, and now, years later, will play his 298th game as his club takes on the Abbotsford Canucks.