The Calgary Flames have re-assigned forward prospect Andrew Basha to the Western Hockey League’s Medicine Hat Tigers, the club announced Friday afternoon.

Basha, 20, has skated in 27 games with the American Hockey League’s Calgary Wranglers to start the 2025-26 regular season, collecting five points (one goal, four assists) and 33 penalty minutes to go along with a minus-7 rating.

The Flames originally selected Basha in the second round (No. 41 overall) of the 2024 NHL Draft. The Calgary-born forward is in his final year of major junior eligibility and will now return to the surging Tigers for their stretch drive.

Being one of the youngest players on the team, Basha has cycled in and out of the Wranglers’ lineup over the first half of the 2025-26 season. Now, he’ll return to a Tigers team that he led both on and off the ice, having served as an alternate captain in the 2024-25 season.

Basha scored 30 goals and 85 points in 63 games with the Tigers in 2023-24, which led the Flames to use their own second-round pick on the 6’0″ forward in the 2024 NHL Draft. He subsequently signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Flames in September 2024. But a significant lower-body injury limited Basha to just 23 games with the Tigers in 2024-25, and he only skated in five of a possible 18 playoff games during their successful WHL championship run.

Even without projected 2026 No. 1 overall draft pick Gavin McKenna, who left the club after the 2024-25 season to attend Penn State University, the Tigers currently sit atop the WHL’s Eastern Conference standings with a 25-6-3-2 record and 55 points through 36 games this season. Basha should play a central role for the Tigers in the second half of the season, potentially on a unit with the talented Ruck twins.

Over parts of four WHL seasons with the Tigers, Basha has recorded 64 goals and 184 points in 201 games. He’s added eight goals and 14 points in 14 playoff contests, as well as one assist in four games at the 2025 Memorial Cup.

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