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A Flame From the Past: Walker Duehr
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Ryley Delaney
Jan 11, 2026, 14:00 ESTUpdated: Jan 11, 2026, 13:04 EST
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Do you remember Walker Duehr?
Every once in a while, we take a look at a player who once played for the Calgary Flames in a series called “A Flame From the Past”. This player has to have played a significant number of games for the Flames. I’ll put every Flames’ season into a Wheel of Names, and this time, it landed on the 2022-23 season. In this article, we’ll take a look at Walker Duehr.
Duehr was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Nov. 23, 1997. At the junior level, he played the 2014-15 season with the Sioux City Musketeers, scoring two goals and seven points in 49 games. His 2015-16 season was spent with the Tri-City Storm, as he scored 10 goals and 23 points in 38 games, along with a goal and four points in 11 post-season games as they went on to win the Clark Cup.
His 2016-17 season was split between the Chicago Steel and Bloomington Thunder. With the Steel, the right-winger scored 12 goals and 27 points in 43 games, then three goals and seven points in 15 games with the Thunder. Duehr didn’t play in the post-season that year.
He began his collegiate career in 2017-18 with Minnesota State University – Mankato, scoring two goals and three points in eight games. The following season saw Duehr score a career-high 10 goals and 16 points in 34 games, before dropping to three goals and 15 points in 32 games in 2019-20. Duehr’s final collegiate season saw him match his career-high in goal with 10, while adding seven assists for a career-best 17 points.
On Apr. 11, Duehr became the first player born in South Dakota, signing his entry-level contract with the Flames and joining the American Hockey League’s Stockton Heat, where he was held pointless in five games. If you’re curious, Fern Headley was the first North Dakotan to play in the National Hockey League, doing so with the Boston Bruins and Montréal Canadiens in 1924-25.
Most of Duehr’s 2021-22 season was spent with the Heat, scoring 11 goals and 23 points in 59 games, with five goals and six points in 13 post-season games. However, Duehr became the first South Dakotan to play in the NHL that season, playing a game where he was pointless.. That leaves Arkansas, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wyoming as the only states without a player to play in the NHL.
Duehr became more of a regular in 2022-23, scoring seven goals and 11 points 27 games, but most of his season was spent with the Flames’ relocated AHL team, the Calgary Wranglers. He scored 15 goals and 26 points in 41 games in the AHL in 2022-23, along with five assists in nine playoff games.
In 2023-24, Duehr played 40 NHL games, scoring two goals and seven points as he was regularly a healthy scratch. He played two AHL games that season. In 2024-25, Duehr picked up an assist in 16 NHL games, with 11 goals and 19 points in 20 AHL games, but was placed on waivers and claimed by the San Jose Sharks. 
He played eight NHL games with the Sharks in 2024-25, scoring two goals, and added another five goals and nine points in 16 games with the Sharks’ AHL team. During the off-season, Duehr joined the Winnipeg Jets’ organization, and has appeared in 31 games for the Manitoba Moose of the AHL, scoring nine goals and 19 points.
Ryley Delaney is a Nation Network writer for FlamesNation, Oilersnation, and Blue Jays Nation. She can be followed on Twitter @Ryley__Delaney.

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