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FN Report Cards: Blake Coleman was a standout in a challenging Flames season
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Jun 8, 2026, 12:00 EDTUpdated: Jun 8, 2026, 00:24 EDT
The 2025-26 season was an offensively challenging one for the entire Calgary Flames group as a whole. One player who consistently rose to the occasion and brought his A-plus effort nightly was long-time Flame and veteran winger, Blake Coleman.
What were the expectations for Blake Coleman in 2025-26?
As discussed in previous articles the Flames clearly started the season with playoff aspirations. Coleman was coming off a 15 goal, 39 point season having played every single game. For his age and role I would say maintaining that point production and keeping the goals above 15 would have been what we should have anticipated.
An unwritten expectation is Coleman, the two time Stanley Cup Champion, provides leadership to younger players and shows them what a daily professional work ethic looks like to instill younger habits in the youthful members of the squad.
How did Blake Coleman perform in 2025-26?
It was a prototypical Blake Coleman season. He scored key goals – especially when the rest of the team couldn’t buy any – and produced at his normal rate. He hit 20 goals scored for the fourth time in his career and kept that roughly half a point per-game production up.
After 5 years in Calgary you know what to expect from Blake Coleman every night: There’s no lulls, there’s no need to force extrinsic motivation – Coleman has all the tools and the mindset to be a consummate professional every year, every game, every shift. You do not need to worry about what he is going to bring, nor do you need to force reflection on mistakes.
He’s as well put-together a player as you can find in the National Hockey League.
What is the future outlook for Blake Coleman?
This is the hard part about Coleman: he’s been everything you could have ever asked for when signing him in 2021, but the team is going in a different direction that Coleman’s age and role don’t really mesh with.
Sure, you could keep him around as a veteran pro, but with captain Mikael Backlund and Jonathan Huberdeau in here, as well as younger pros on longer deals (Joel Farabee, for instance) that role isn’t a desperate need.
I love Coleman, and he’ll go down in the same breath as other respected Flames with an extended tenure, but with where things are at he could be moved on any given day. He’s one of the more attractive trade options for a competitive team that just came short chasing the Stanley Cup (Dallas, Colorado, Montreal, Buffalo, etc.) at this point he’s “the right package” away from playing for a different franchise.
He’ll always be a grade-A professional, and he brought his consistency to the Flames middle six for a fifth straight year in 2025-26, I just do wonder how much longer that tenure is going to last.
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