During the summer, The Athletic did its annual list of the 10 worst contracts in the NHL, and once again, Jonathan Huberdeau of the Calgary Flames topped that list.
On Thursday, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy finally confirmed a rumour that fans and media in this city have been discussing for weeks: Jonathan Huberdeau will not be ready for the start of the 2026-27 regular season.
Folks, if there’s been one lingering question for the Calgary Flames throughout their 2026 off-season, it’s been some version of “Hey, I wonder how Jonathan
Calgary Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau will miss the start of the 2026-27 season as he continues to recover from a hip resurfacing surgery performed in the Spring, general manager Craig Conroy told Pat Steinberg of Flames Now 770.
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.
Perhaps no team across the entire NHL has been more active on the trade market in recent years than the Calgary Flames. While the 2026-27 season will likely be slower in that regard, the team still has some big pieces it could move before the 2027 trade deadline.
It feels like everybody has decided what Jonathan Huberdeau is at this point. He's the guy with the enormous contract. He's the former superstar who didn't live up to the deal.
The Calgary Flames 2026/27 regular season is less than a month away from beginning, and from all accounts, it's set to be a tough season with a lack of elite level players leading this roster into the final campaign at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
There’s a funny thing about hockey injuries. Sometimes the best news isn't that a player is ready to play. Sometimes it's simply that he isn't hurting anymore.
Earlier this week, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy chatted with QR Calgary’s Jock Wilson, and part of their conversation might have caused some worries about the status of Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau’s return from hip surgery.
Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy has cleared the air about comments he made earlier in the week about the status of winger Jonathan Huberdeau’s recovery from hip resurfacing surgery.
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.
Jonathan Huberdeau arrived in Calgary as one of the marquee return pieces in the Matthew Tkachuk blockbuster — a 115‑point superstar coming off a career year, expected to become the Flames’ next franchise winger.
Folks, one of the biggest question marks for the Calgary Flames heading into the 2026-27 campaign centres on the health of their highest-paid player, Jonathan Huberdeau.
Calgary Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau may not be ready to go for the start of the 2026-27 season after sustaining “a little bit of a setback” in his recovery from hip resurfacing surgery, general manager Craig Conroy said Wednesday.
If you’re Jonathan Huberdeau, you just can’t win these days. Already regarded as the most overpaid NHL player, he’s taking more heat from fans this week after Cale Makar‘s deal landed at a whopping $20.4 million per season.
In July 2022, in the aftermath of a season where he set the single-season National Hockey League assists record for a left wing, Jonathan Huberdeau was traded to the Calgary Flames as part of a blockbuster transaction that sent Matthew Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers.
Dating back years, the Calgary Flames were seemingly forced to trade Matthew Tkachuk when he made it clear he didn’t see a long-term future with the Flames, and they decided to move him to the Florida Panthers.
The summer is flying by, and the 2026–27 NHL season is quickly approaching. With that comes the opportunity to start looking ahead at expectations for the Calgary Flames and their roster.
Recently, there has been some discussion online about two veterans the Calgary Flames could move this offseason. The first, Blake Coleman, no surprise there.
Calgary Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season after undergoing hip resurfacing surgery. Huberdeau, 32, scored the opening goal in Calgary’s 4-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday evening.
Calgary Flames star winger Jonathan Huberdeau has played in his final game of the 2025-26 season. According to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, Huberdeau “needs hip surgery,” and will miss the rest of the year as a result.
Four years ago, Jonathan Huberdeau was near the top of the hockey world—a perennial point-per-game winger squarely in his prime, coming off an electric 115-point season and widely viewed as one of the league’s best players.