The Calgary Flames have found themselves another goaltender. With free agency finally opening, the Flames have signed netminder Cam Talbot to a one year deal worth $2.75 million.
The Flames will indeed have Cam Talbot between the pipes this coming season.
1yr $2.75mil
— Ryan Leslie (@ryanleslie73) July 1, 2019
Talbot, 31, is originally from Caledonia, Ontario. He came up through the American college ranks, suiting up for three seasons with the University of Alabama-Huntsville. He was signed as a free agent by the New York Rangers in 2010.
From there, Talbot followed the typical goaltending progression. He played three seasons in the Rangers’ farm system, then a couple seasons behind Henrik Lundqvist as backup for the Rangers. With King Henrik cemented as the top dog on Broadway, the Rangers shopped the youngster and ended up swapping him to the Edmonton Oilers at the 2015 NHL Draft – the Flames, having sent several assets to the Boston Bruins for Dougie Hamilton, missed out on Talbot and ended up re-signing Karri Ramo instead.
Talbot had a few strong seasons in Edmonton, but between the team’s defense breaking down and Talbot playing 196 regular season games over three seasons – an average of 65 per season – his game fell off a cliff in the 2018-19 campaign. He lost his starting gig to Mikko Koskinen and then was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers.
A one year deal playing in a tandem with David Rittich likely represents an opportunity for Talbot to have a bounce-back season, and an opportunity for the Flames to buy low on a player that they’ve liked for awhile.
$2.75 million of Oiler stink has just landed in our city; discusting!
WW
The only thing worse than Oiler stink is IMPOSTER STINK….!
You reek buddy….
WW
Careful Walt or Durp here will unleash his other online aliases on you. Maybe Jon Moxie or Richie….. what an annoyingly pathetic existence.
Pathetic existence indeed…..
I had a feeling Moxie was also Durp the imposter.
Pathetic….!!!
WW
Let’s just say you’re not the swiftest person around.
I’ve counted 5 different accounts so far.
Lol. Now I am a Moxley as well. How do I get pegged with this? I will say it one more time to get it through your thick old man skull….I am Durp. I was Stajanforadirtyboot originally. For a short time I was Glenshairgel. Both those were me yes. I am no one else on flames nation. Accuse away but I am sorry you are wrong. Now back to hockey talk. FFS.
Not the swiftest person…???” I’ve counted 5 different accounts so far”…. although impressive you can count to 5, I have 1….1 account. Perhaps you and WW are the same poster, oh and you are also BTF, you also used the word “that” you know who else used that word in a post…thebigchef…..come on pull your head out of your arse. Puck head I would actually now peg you as the imposter and moxley since you are so quick to jump in and accuse. Nice cover buddy…nice cover. WW theres your imposter, Mr. Puck head. Anyways back to hockey. Tkchuck going to get an offer sheet?
Nope not Richie, I’m a different guy.
Both of you stink. You for being you and him for pretending to be you.😂
This UFA signing of Talbot makes me feel worse than any other UFA I can think of. Possibly the worst signing in franchise history. Overpaid and useless.
I think you’re thinking of Brouwer, neal, jagr(most embarrassing signing)
Nope, this one feels worse than all of those.
It must be depressing bring your family having to be around your negativity at family functions. Just always miserable about everything
Really? Then you don’t come around here very much. This signing is nothing to be happy about. I have no issues being positive with the team when I have reason to. The subject of Tre and now Talbot does not give me reason to be positive. But then again when I said last fall Lindholm could be the first Swede since Loob to score 50 I got trashed too. Can’t win with you Feukers can I? Meh won’t keep me from posting my thoughts lol.
And honestly I’m not the jackass on here saying “disappearing Tkachuk” “Mony Butters” or “Monkey Piss Backlund”. I just simply hate the GM and have very little faith in him or this Talbot signing. I personally am excited as hell Tuulola is coming back to NA. I cheer for the underdogs like Mange and Phillips. I am 1000 happier and more sunny side than Durp or WW or Raffy. You know this is a bad signing when Raffy makes a nice comment lol.
All that and not a single personal attack at you, unlike you do Iggy Complex lol.
Dude, your meds. Perhaps we can have this conversation in January if he continues to struggle. Or are you trying to hedge your emotion & be depressed now so that if he plays like a rock star you can bounce to a higher high?
Hath gone, seriously, we couldn’t off $1.5 or a bit more for the guy.
Fant Gone…
The exodus has begun
both easily replaced for less than 1.5. Both leaving was obvious
Look at Hartman’s signing. Another miss….
Who’s trashing Skylar on this? Do you watch the Flames play? Those 2 [players contributed positively. Couple that with their cheap salary and it is baffling why we let them walk AND signed a washed up ex-Oiler.
$2.75 million is an overpayment buy 1.5 million. Talbot has one hell of an agent to pull off that magic trick. If Talbot get $2.75 what do the remaining get?
Robin Lehner @ $5.0
Semyon Varlamov @ 3.25
Petr Mrazek @ $4.75
Curtis McElhinney @ $2.75
Cam Ward @ $3.0……..
Just a guess. Wish they got Lehner, knew a month ago about Talbot the price tag was the shocker here.
Curtis McElhinney @ $2.6……..close.
Nope. McElhinney was 2,6 for 2 years…. so 1,3 AAV
Dam your right….missed that. Yikes!!
Kincaid is 1.75 million for a year.
Over two years though.
I’m not the least bit happy about the price tag. They are supposed to create space not suffocate themselves. I like Tre but he sucks at signing free agents
Tre just sucks.
Tre is starting to Fail… mind games the #19 when he should have been signed ASAP or if his ego and greed are too much Trade him ASFP. I’d trade Talbot for Hathaway & Fant All day long… And for Twice as much as Talbot is worth… This July 1st is a nightmare! Not impressed at all… 2.75 million for a sieve? I’d rather had the flames spend that much on a Hammer! This Sucks!
My question is why haven’t we seen a TJ Brodie or Michael Frolik trade yet? Come on Tre I’m losing faith in you.
Because this isn’t NHL 19 franchise mode. Better that he waits for the right trade then trade just for the sake of trading
I have been hearing a lot of news of Flames trades falling through since January. Some of us just don’t have the blind trust in Tre like you do. I just gotta say I’m glad Kadri blocked his trade to us.
Not sure the blind trust thing. He has made bad signings and bad trades like every other gm in the history of the NHL. Still doesn’t change the fact that this is not a video game and you can’t just make up trades on the spot. Nor is he like the Oilers and trade players for the sake of trading them with terrible return.
Nope, it’s total blind trust. If you saw clearly you would see how bad of a GM he really is. Are you an Oilers fan? You bring up the Oilers an awful lot. I personally would prefer not compare my Flames with one of the worst franchises in the league.
as is most of flames fandom I’m sure regarding kadri
Or he waits to long and gets pennies on the dollar in terms of trade value.
Offers don’t match expected returns. Tre will stick to his guns and hopefully get the return he expects before the trade deadline.
I didn’t expect to see much for trades today. But now that the free agent frenzy has died down I think the GM’s who missed out on signing someone are gonna circle back and see what’s on the trading block. I expect either Frolik or Brodie or both will be moved in the next couple days
I’m hoping your right Doobie. No interest right now in Gardiner and he is a crap Dman. But supposedly is rated higher than Brodie. So where does that leave trying to off load a 3rd pairing defenceman and a 3rd more likely 4th line winger. Don’t expect sh!t people there is not much money left over for bottom of the rung players. Cmon Flames faithful you Ostriches have had your heads buried for so long the ground has hardened and there is no hope that you will ever be able to pull your craniums out. Sad state of affairs.
Wow. So many Cassandras.
Talbot will be fine and takes the pressure of Rittich.
Rittich will sign for the same as Talbot or maybe less – he’s an RFA with a less than stellar track record, so no panic.
Fantenberg and Hathaway were useful spare parts but replacements either won’t cost much or aren’t required, given the spare parts the team still has.
It’s Canada Day. Relax, have a beer or twenty-four, enjoy the fireworks.
You expect the teams starting goalie (tre even publicly announced that) to sign for the same as a free agent siev???? Yeah I think Rittich would be firing his agent if that happened lol
Hard to quantify this one. Is Talbot a million dollars better than Smith? i’m guessing no. So, the only guess I can make for doing it is that Smitty wasn’t going to be welcomed back in the room.
Well Talbot is 5 years younger without all the injuries. And other than three bad season last year behind an abysmal defence he had had a good career. So much better bet for bounce back then Smith. Look at Robin lehner
I don’t think it has anything to do with smitty being welcomed back in the room as much as why would you want to resign a really old bad goalie
1M too much. How does a goalie with a sub .890 get close to 3m per season?
It was only one year. He is career ,915 save percentage. All goalies have bad years
His save percentage is ballooned by his first two seasons on a defensively responsible Rangers team. He is a goalie who relies on big equipment on his big frame not athleticism.
So what your saying is if he is on a team with good defence he had good stats? Hmm weird how that works. And Calgary is a defensively responsible team so according to you he should have good stats this year. Glad your finally coming around and being positive for once
Gio and Hamonic both with 10 on ice goals against in 5 playoff games. You do the math lol. We are in big trouble this season lol.
So that’s why Smitty gave his team mates the stink eye so often last season? Because they were responsible? Okay then lol
You can’t change my mind. Only Talbot can, if he proves himself to be more than just a big body. For now, it feels like when we signed Cujo or bringing back Mike Vernon.
Another team must have been after him and his agent upped his price in a bidding war
My 3 hopes on the RS all signed. Donskoi for $3.9m too much, Connolly $3.25m x4 exactly where I figured and Hartman 2x$1.9m. again a fair deal. Meanwhile we have zero RW depth now that Hathaway is gone. I’m moving more and more into your camp on BT.
BT never learned and our team toughness is zero. Can they learned from last playoffs exit first round. I am very disappointed, and not surprise our next year season will be falling apart again. Look at Edmonton and Vancouver they will be ahead of the Calgary next season.
Vancouver is better… but Edmonton? They have the scariest goalie tandom in the league (and not in a good way). They bought out a top6 “D” and didn’t replace him yet… so it’s hard to imagine they’ll allow less goals, and they haven’t added scoring up front.
I don’t mind the Chaisson $, but it’s likely he regresses. Khaira returns, fine. I don’t mind Granlund and Jurco, but if they can’t prevent goals they gotta score tons and they still have only 3 guys to do it. I don’t see them better yet, but they’re not getting “Chiarelli worse” either.
It’s Vancouver that’s impressive…. they just overhauled their “D”
Myers, Benn, Fantenberg. They went from having a brutal D core to adding 3 valuable pieces for a deep 7. No big stars, sure…. but…. much improved.
Ya not sure how anyone would think Edmonton is any different than they’ve been. Vancouver has definately improved.
Well the flames have been missing the playoffs every second year, I see that trend continuing with this signing. Hartley made the playoffs one year and missed the next, and GG did the same. I really hope it doesn’t happen to Peters.
Ray Ferraro picked the Flames as his loser of the day for not addressing their hope at center on the second line and taking a gamble on Cam Talbot. I usually do not like or agree with Ferraro..but I do not think he is far off..but hey..could be worse..at least we are not Columbus.
Ray Ferraro is 2 things:
– The best hockey analyst in the business
– Correct.
Ray Ferraro is a pinhead. The only UFA we needed to delve into was that of a backup goalie. All year we prayed Treliving keep out of the UFA market. Lots of teams did diddly squat today. The big winner Rangers are now in a bit of a cap crunch & they havent signed Trouba yet.
So at $2.75 for the backup or at best 1b, what does the starter or 1a now want?
Over pay even at 1 year? Rittich and his agent are now saying 3 to 4 years at $4.0, right?
Gasp….
That’s the first thing I thought Way to go tre. Unless he has something crazy up his sleeve I’ve lost faith in this guy
I disagree, Skylar. I think this strengthens BT’s position. The Flames now have someone who could step into a starters role, if need be. Rittich is going to have a harder time demanding “starter” money. I said this earlier in the week. If BT can resolve the goalie situation for around 6 mil, he’ll be laughing.
YesTalbot as a starter lol recipe for success
Can say the same thing about Smith.
Curtis MAC signs for 1.3 and is better.
Well you never know what is going on behind closed doors. Perhaps they kicked tires on mcelhinny, but he didnt want to come here or BT wasn’t willing to give him two years. I would have preferred mcelhinny or even kincaid at 1.75 million, but like I said there may have been extenuating circumstances that lead to calgary landing on talbot. That being said talbots AAV is quite rich, and I think will raise rittichs AAV.
I agree with you. This now pushes the Rittich ask up. What would make it a value contract? 35 starts and going 22 and 13. I doubt it happens.
And I am saying min ask would be $4.0
He’s still an RFA who didn’t prove all that much I bet he gets 2 or 3 years at 2.95.
If seniority counts for anything with all things being equal I would say he makes less than Talbot.
Ugh. Please, someone, explain to me what Talbot has done the last two years to deserve a 2,75mil contract. His sv% has been trending down his entire career except a plateau in 2015-2017 at ~.918.
He has regularly given up early goals and his puck tracking has been terrible, and his medium danger sv% is awful (which I think is the ‘cleanest’ advanced stat for a goalie… as high danger is often “left out to dry”, and low danger is too influenced by “luck”.
Lastly, don’t give me the “he’s been on bad teams…” cause he has, but all the other goalies on those bad teams have outplayed him.
Fine. Prove me wrong Talbot. I hope you do.
And Curtis McElhinney (who, yes, is 36yrs old) signs for 1,3 to 100% be a backup to the Vezina winner. His last two years sv% .934, .912….
He’s cheaper for two years than Talbot for 1….. Talbot he of a .890sv%
I’ll get over it… next year
If he gets playing time there. Domingue was one of the best goalies in the league last year. They must be trading him or why sign Mcelhinney.
Wants to win a Cup at his age so signs in TB…obvious!
Well..at least the goaltending has been addressed. Upgraded? To be seen..I believe Talbot is an upgrade over Smith. Happy Tre didn’t resign Hathaway at 1.5 x 4 years, guys like him are a dime a dozen, pretty easy to replace. I am curious what Rittich gets now. My guess is 4.5 x 4 years?
Not to change the discussion, but apparently Kypreos said that the Flames and Toronto had a Kadri deal in place, but Kadri vetoed the deal with his modified NTC. I’m looking forward to booing the absolute crap out of that guy next year.
On Talbot, it’s a decent deal, in my opinion. Only one year, some potential upside (albeit limited). A bit more than I’d like to pay, but the single year is the important part here.
I don’t see it “driving Rittich’s deal up”. His ask? Maybe. But BSD’s an RFA, it’s absolutely apples and oranges. He has arbitration rights, but I don’t see an incredibly strong case to be made in arbitration. He has, what, 40 games of track-record?
Great post & a refreshing doom & gloom in here. Hopefully Talbot is the only UFA we engage in today. Never heard that about Kadri veto of a deal to us. Why would he do that?? Puke. Kreider talk again as well. Too many teams with huge needs are missing out here, the trade market is going to get hot & heavy.
Does this mean that Aho has accepted the offer sheet?
If I had a choice I would play in Carolina instead of Montreal 100%.
Montreal has terrible taxes, terrible fans, terrible weather……and I’m not even talking about the team, coach and GM…..
WW
As I understand…. yes. The player has to accept/sign the offersheet for it to be filed. If they don’t accept, it’s basically unknown unless it leaks out.
Yes he has accepted it. Carolina had a week to match or trade
The sky is falling the sky is falling!!!
Okay! Welcome aboard. Now, if we could not boo him before he ever faces a shot that would be grrreeeaaatttt.
Tre could have saved some money and signed that walrus from the Geico commercial as a back up goalie
https://youtu.be/egfKEpSLZak
It’s a Walrus….it’s ridiculous
We lose one of the few forwards that hits in Hathaway and we have too many D and BT has added nothing to a team that has no grit.