The Calgary Flames have announced their opening roster for the 2024-25 season.
The Flames will begin the season with 23 players on their active roster – two goaltenders, eight defencemen and 13 forwards – and one player on their injury reserve list.
Here are the opening 23 active players:
Goaltenders Dustin Wolf (#32) and Dan Vladar (#80)
Defensemen Rasmus Andersson (#4), Kevin Bahl (#7), Tyson Barrie (#8), Jake Bean (#24), Joel Hanley (#44), MacKenzie Weegar (#52), Daniil Miromanov (#62) and Brayden Pachal (#94)
Forwards Jonathan Huberdeau (#10), Mikael Backlund (#11), Blake Coleman (#20), Kevin Rooney (#21), Matt Coronato (#27), Sam Honzek (#29), Anthony Mantha (#39), Adam Klapka (#43), Connor Zary (#47), Ryan Lomberg (#70), Martin Pospisil (#76), Nazem Kadri (#91) and Andrei Kuzmenko (96)
On the injury reserve list is Yegor Sharangovich (#17)
As announced on Saturday, Backlund is the captain, while Andersson, Weegar, Huberdeau, Kadri and Coleman are alternate captains.
14 players on this season’s opening active roster weren’t on last season’s:
- Wolf (promoted from AHL; 2019 draft pick)
- Bahl (acquired from New Jersey in the Jacob Markstrom trade)
- Barrie (free agent)
- Bean (free agent)
- Hanley (waiver claim from Dallas)
- Miromanov (acquired from Vegas in the Noah Hanifin trade)
- Pachal (waiver claim from Vegas)
- Rooney (free agent; was injured last season)
- Honzek (promoted from junior; 2023 draft pick)
- Mantha (free agent)
- Klapka (promoted from AHL; European free agent)
- Lomberg (free agent)
- Pospisil (promoted from AHL; 2018 draft pick)
- Kuzmenko (acquired from Vancouver in the Elias Lindholm trade)
That’s 61% of the roster that’s changed from a year ago. Heck, nine of them weren’t even in the organization at this time last year.
The Flames have $69,369,167 in cap commitments, which is $18,630,833 under the NHL’s $88 million cap ceiling.
