It’s been a predictably quiet UFA period for the Flames, but they still made some minor moves, adding defender Brandon Davidson and centre Byron Froese on one year, two way, $700K deals.
.@CortexBusiness Transaction Alert: The #Flames have signed forward Byron Froese to a one-year, two-way contract. https://t.co/cqSUQp1wPX
— Calgary Flames (@NHLFlames) July 1, 2019
Both players are likely Stockton bound, as the Flames’ affiliate is pretty bare bones right now, and neither of these players finished their 2018-19 in the NHL. Froese split his season with the Laval Rocket (Montreal) and the Lehigh Valley Phantoms (Philly), and Davidson played with the Rockford IceHogs (Chicago). As of this writing, there are no details on either players’ AHL salaries.
Froese is a 28 year old, 6’1 right handed centre. He has some NHL experience, picking up 110 games in the previous four seasons for Montreal, Tampa Bay, and Toronto, though he only picked up 16 points. He’s been a pretty good AHLer though, usually scoring at least 40 points a season. Froese scored 21 goals and added 23 assists in 70 games last season.
Davidson is also a bit of a journeyman, having played for four different teams in the past two seasons (Montreal, Edmonton, New York Islanders, and Chicago). He’s a 6’2 LHD who has demonstrated that he can be a handy third pairing defender in his various stops around the NHL. He has nine goals and 14 assists in 162 career NHL games.
These are the second and third signings for the Flames, the first being Cam Talbot.
More to come.
Pinch me.
Boring day so far. That’s what we were all asking for though was it not?
At least we didn’t throw 5 mill at Simmonds – WTF????
Wasnt it only one year though? Could be worse.
Moxley here,
5 million bones for Simmonds is bat shat crazy. $700,000 bones to play in the AHL, nice.
Moxley out!!!
I want boring for the most part on July 1st.
Tyler Myers making SIX MILLION A YEAR?!?!?! Is a great example of why I don’t want us doing anything major. Myers is a gong show in his own end (not as bad as Cody Ceci), but he might not even be in the league in three years. If he was 6’2”, I don’t even know if he ever would have even played a game in the NHL.
Look at where the NHL has gone now finally valuing undersized defenders fairly and not just swinging for the fences on big project defenders. Jackson van de Leest had better numbers this year than Myers did his draft year and he didn’t even get drafted (still half we invited him to camp), Myers on the other hand was a first rounder his draft year.
Good, we need to re-stock Stockton.
Somehow they need to get a 2nd line offensive center if they hope to compete in the playoffs next year. Tkachuk needs help on the 2nd line. Backlund is a two way center and would fit better on the 3rd line.
James Neal for Kyle Turris…. or just have Neal play on the top line, magically find his form and then drop Lindy to the second line…. one can dream
Trade Backs and Brodie for Getzlaf, seeing as Calgary would probably be an ok’d destination for him. Neal and Tkachuk would probably fit well with the dude and become the de facto 1st line. Keep the next line (G-M-L) intact for speed and move Ryan to the 3rd. With Mang and Bennett. I mean how much worse can Bennett’s production be on his off-wing? May take a couple more pieces, but Getzlaf would probably love looking up and already see his name in the rafters.
Leafs sign Spezza. Is Kadri now in play? Marty and Kadri together would have the opposition on the verge of insanity. Wonder if Brodie straight up gets it done.
Kadri apparently vetod a trade to the Flames..
Interesting. Where did you hear that?
Kypreos said it today on sportsnet. Wasn’t specific as to if it actually happened today or in the past though.
Kypreos reported it. Apparently phat ras was going to the other way so thank god it didn’t happen
See Skylar. This (if true) is what Jobu is talking about.
Calgary is at a massive disadvantage when it comes to trades and free agents. It’s GM overpay or whiff.
How’s She Goin I highly doubt was Ras was involved. Tre at the TDL said that under no circumstances would Ras or Vali be dealt for Mark Stone so no way they would be traded for Kadri
Hey Flaming C – I never said Ras was involved. That was another member of Flamesnation. See my original comment.
Yup, scared of Gio
I know it was reported, but I have to call BS on the “we were getting Kadri”, because Toronto just got Barrie for him. Hahah.
Thank Gawd…..I was prepared to boycott the Team if we ever got Kadri or Perry
Davidson is a good, safe, cheap signing, who could play minutes in Calgary, need be. But he [Davidson] didn’t play too many games, last season.
Froese is Stockton bound. Filler. Nothing more. Replaces Lazar, I suppose – we signed him for the same salary Lazar got on his one-way, in Buffalo. ??
I believe as things stand right now. Tre believes he can fill from the farm? Originally I thought if we lost Hath, Lazar would come up… well, on to the next which would be Lomberg on his off wing or Robinson??? Gawdin might get a look? Foo would have fit there too, but…
Cheap available RW’s who could fill that roll… who are under 30 and taller than 6’…
Devante Smith-Pelly
Dmitrij Jaskin
Over 30
James Neal (lol)
Drew Stafford 33
Anthony Peluso 30
Adam Cracknell 33
… There are other guys… but really… Not really..
I’ve always been a Davidson fan going back to his Regina days, I think he would have become a legitimate NHLer long ago if not for brutal health problems early in his career that stunted his development.
Flames should sign Thornton for one year. Performance bonuses would let most of the cap hit slide to next year.
Could be a Jagr type of move.
Could be but he had 50 points last year so looked better than Jagr did going into the season.
The Aho offer sheet brings Tkachuk down below 8.5.The Talbot signing puts Rittich to 3.75 but that is still 15 million and they need to sign Bennett and Mangiapane. If they have 16.1 (Ryan Pike) they are home free if they can dump the Frolik or Brodie salary, if they have 12.9 (capfriendly) they are already in trouble.
It would be interesting to know if they think they can look to youth next year. Do they think they will find a scoring centre in Phillips or Zavgorndniy (can’t wait to hear announcers mangle that one) , are they projecting replacing Hathaway with someone like Tuulola \ Ruzicka or will they need to rely on a Buddy Robertson?
15 million includes Talbot
I think Lomberg has a better chance than Buddy Robertson… the other guys don’t even have a full year in the AHL so I doubt they would make the jump.
Last year at camp there was talk that Zavgorodniy might make the team but they could not send him to Stockton because of age so he went back to junior. Valimaki made the jump and would have spent the year in Calgary if not for injury so it is not impossible.
Lomberg is not the answer, he isn’t NHL caliber.
BT will move Frolik if necessary to clear space. That may be the only move he makes. Signing Thornton was just a flight of fancy but it could be doable, and would bring some serious playoff experience into the room – the kind BT hoped Neal would provide but did not.
Who will he sign if now gets the cap space; I’m not sure there is much that would help the Flames.
What grade would BT get for today’s work? The highlight of the day is that he did not sign anyone to a longterm bad deal. The fact that he did not signsome guys who fit an organizational need who signed for reasonable deals; is Hartman and Connolly is the low light. He gets no grade for trades in that always requires a partner. Maybe the secondary highlight is that Tkachuk should fall between the Aho offer sheet and the Mieir contract. So I give him a C- for the day.
Compared to last year he gets an A++. Take away last year and Brouwer and he gets a C because he did OK.
I would give him a B+ on the common Canadian grading scale.
It seems all of his trades are being nixed at the last minuet..? which is why there have been no over pay players signed besides Talbot… No money to play with… Might just be a blessing in disguise, but makes for a very disappointing July 1st as I was hoping for some trades and movement forward for the team…
Not sure how many were nixed by the players … Kadri/Brodie maybe, but I’m not sure I’d want Kadri. The Frolik/Zucker schlemazl was a timing breakdown I thought.
More likely is BT looking for fair value and not receiving it. Either he is waiting out the market or the market is waiting out him. We’ll know in September I guess.
Yup, who knows what waters he may have dabbled in if he were to free up some space. I consider this July 1 as an A-. Yeah Talbot is being over paid by a mill, everyone is whining but it isnt their money & he fits the bill for a backup. Rittch is our guy but we definitely need an experienced backup plan, which Talbot is. Really who else was there. Varlamov, Lehner & Mrazek are all way too much money & term & that would shut the door on Ritter. Not a Kinkaid fan, Reimer would have been plan B as a cap dump back to Florida (flip them Stone so they could buy Stone out & not us). Mchelhinney…maybe but heard he wanted to stay out East & he had lots of options to do so.
Aho accepting that offer sheet is huge for us. It lines the way to get Tkachuk in at around 7.5mill per for 6 or 7 years.
The main course on the deal for Aho is $21 mil for the first 2 years in bonus money. Is this the new way of convincing these kids to sign lower AAV? I’m thinking that Tkachuk’s camp is a little smarter then that, but makes you wonder…
My bad…that’s 21 mil in the first 12 months lol. That kind of reminds me of way back when Sakic signed a Vancouver offer to force the Avs for up front bonus money.
Frick…long day… That was Sakic signing a Rangers offer lol
Well if that’s what Tkachuk wants, then do it, get the cap down to 6.5mill on a 5-6 year deal & pay him $25 mill in signing bonuses in the first 2 years. These are guaranteed contracts so why not?
Hopefully this will push negotiations with the other RFA’s now. Like to see Chucky get sorted out sooner than later.
He won’t go higher than 5 years
I would give him a gold Star for participation.
Why? Isn’t there enough dmen on this team?
Organizational need.
Farm fodder.
Kadri trades to Colorado for Barrie. Doesn’t make sense.
That was wrong . Kadri to Colorado for Barrie.
Wow! Colorado eating half of Barrie’s salary too. I guess Sakic didnt want to deal with Barrie’s massive ask next year when he becomes a UFA. Colorado did need a 2nd line centre.
Bring Ferland back, give Martin Pospisil a spot on the roster and let’s play some hackey!!! Call it a day.
How have we improved the team. Way too much for Talbot, loose Hathaway, only guy not afraid to muck it up. What is going to give away for Tkachuk, obviously outlandish money for a guy who hasn’t proved he is playoff ready.
I don’t know about the rest of you but BT is getting out maneuverd. His job is to improve the team, I don’t see any signs of that lately.
Tre got his handed to him on Day 1 of FA frenzy, but it is still early days so lots of time to reshuffle the roster before the season starts.
Avs really were the Day 1 winners as they made some very good signings–Bellemare and Donskoi–as well as Kadri. The Avs are going to be that much tougher in the new season.
Tre still has a lot of work to do. Don’t mind the Talbot signing but not for $2.75M. He ain’t worth it, but you get few bargain on Day 1, and he might not have been around when the GMs go dumpster diving later on.
gun shy
Just got back from the bathtub races and missed a massive amount of goalie signings. Lehner at $5 was about the only non overpay. Talbot signing a little easier after seeing other numbers. Varlamov @ 5 million for four years…yikes.