The Calgary Flames have seemingly made their final roster moves prior to Monday’s cut-down deadline.
The club has announced they’ve assigned three waiver-exempt players to the American Hockey League’s Calgary Wranglers: defenceman Ilya Solovyov, and forwards Adam Klapka and Cole Schwindt.
The roster moves reduce the Flames’ roster to 24 players: two goaltenders, eight defencemen and 14 forwards. (But since three of those players are likely headed to the injured/non-roster list – Oliver Kylington, Jakob Pelletier and Kevin Rooney – they’re down to 21 active players.)
A few days ago, our pals at PuckPedia outlined how the Flames cap optimize their roster (and their neccessary usage of LTIR):
LTIR candidates: Oliver Kylington ($2.5 million), Kevin Rooney ($1.3 million), Jakob Pelletier Season Opening IR ($406,000)LTIR moves: With a roster of 21 healthy skaters that includes 12 forwards (Duehr/Hunt/Ruzicka as #10/11/12), and 7 Defencemen (includes Gilbert as #7), the roster is $1,681,000 over the cap. Kevin Rooney ($1.3 million) plus Pelletier ($406K on SOIR) is $1.706M, so this roster is just $25K away from fully optimizing LTIR. After submitting their opening roster, they could subsequently add Kylington to LTIR, adding his $2.5 million as cap space. This would allow them to call up 2 more healthy players, like Schwindt, Solovyov, and/or Klapka.
PuckPedia’s scenario has the Flames keeping Coronato on their roster, exceeding the cap by $1.681 million, and placing Rooney and Pelletier on LTIR (combined cap hit of $1.706 million) and filing an opening roster of 21 players (two goaltenders, seven defencemen and 12 forwards). If they wish to carry an additional forward, they can look into placing Kylington on LTIR to open up cap space for one – based on his usage, Schwindt seems a likely candidate if they go down that road.
The Flames have to be down to a cap complaint 20-to-23-man roster by 3 p.m. MT on Monday.
Here’s who’s left on the camp roster:
Goaltenders (2)
No. | Player | Age | 2022-23 Team(s) |
25 | Jacob Markstrom | 33 | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
80 | Daniel Vladar | 26 | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
Cuts: Jari Kykkanen (released from try-out on Sept. 26), Connor Murphy & Matt Radomsky (assigned to Wranglers camp on Sept. 28), Oscar Dansk (assigned to Wranglers camp on Oct. 3), Dustin Wolf (assigned to Wranglers camp on Oct. 5)
Defensemen (8)
No. | Player | Age | Shot | 2022-23 Team(s) |
4 | Rasmus Andersson | 26 | R | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
48 | Dennis Gilbert | 26 | L | Calgary Flames (NHL) Calgary Wranglers (AHL) |
55 | Noah Hanifin | 26 | L | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
58 | Oliver Kylington | 26 | L | Did not play |
82 | Jordan Oesterle | 31 | L | Detroit Red Wings (NHL) |
8 | Chris Tanev | 33 | R | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
52 | MacKenzie Weegar | 29 | R | Calgary Flames (NHL) Canada (WC) |
16 | Nikita Zadorov | 28 | R | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
Cuts: Charles Cote, Tyson Galloway, Quinn Mantei and Donovan McCoy (released from try-outs on Sept. 26); Etienne Morin (assigned to Moncton, QMHL, on Sept. 29), Jarrod Gourley (assigned to Wranglers camp on Sept. 29), Mikael Diotte (released from try-out on Sept. 29), Yan Kuznetsov, Brady Lyle and Colton Poolman (assigned to Wranglers camp on Oct. 3), Jonathan Aspirot (signed to AHL contract on Oct. 3), Yan Kuznetsov (recalled from Wranglers camp on Oct. 4), Yan Kuznetsov and Jeremie Poirier (assigned to Wranglers camp on Oct. 5), Nick DeSimone (assigned to Wranglers camp on Oct. 7), Ilya Solovyov (assigned to Wranglers camp on Oct. 9)
Forwards (14)
No. | Player | Age | Shot | 2022-23 Team(s) |
11 | Mikael Backlund | 34 | L | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
20 | Blake Coleman | 31 | L | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
39 | Matt Coronato | 20 | R | Harvard University (NCAA) Calgary Flames (NHL) United States (WC) |
29 | Dillon Dubé | 24 | L | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
71 | Walker Duehr | 25 | R | Calgary Flames (NHL) Calgary Wranglers (AHL) |
10 | Jonathan Huberdeau | 30 | L | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
15 | Dryden Hunt | 27 | L | New York Rangers (NHL) Colorado Avalanche (NHL) Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) Toronto Marlies (AHL) Calgary Wranglers (AHL) |
91 | Nazem Kadri | 32 | R | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
28 | Elias Lindholm | 28 | R | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
88 | Andrew Mangiapane | 27 | L | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
22 | Jakob Pelletier | 22 | L | Calgary Flames (NHL) Calgary Wranglers (AHL) |
21 | Kevin Rooney | 30 | L | Calgary Flames (NHL) Calgary Wranglers (AHL) |
63 | Adam Ruzicka | 24 | L | Calgary Flames (NHL) |
17 | Yegor Sharangovich | 25 | L | New Jersey Devils (NHL) |
Cuts: Nathan Peer, Nathan Pilling and Oliver Tulk (released from try-outs on Sept. 26), Jaden Lipinski (assigned to Vancouver, WHL, on Sept. 26), Rory Kerins, Ilya Nikolaev, Mark Duarte, Alex Gallant and Mitch McLain (assigned to Wranglers camp on Sept. 28); Brett Sutter, William Stromgren and Parker Bell (assigned to Wranglers camp on Sept. 29), Ben Jones and Clark Bishop (assigned to Wranglers camp on Oct. 3), Lucas Ciona and Connor Zary (assigned to Wranglers camp on Oct. 5), Samuel Honzek (assigned to Vancouver, WHL, on Oct. 5), Emilio Pettersen and Martin Pospisil (assigned to Wranglers camp on Oct. 7), Adam Klapka and Cole Schwindt (assigned to Wranglers camp on Oct. 9)
