The Calgary Flames have made a second injury-related move on Tuesday morning. On the heels of sending forward Martin Pospisil to the Calgary Wranglers of the American Hockey League on a long-term injury conditioning stint, the club announced that they’ve placed forward Blake Coleman on the injury reserve list.

Placement on the injury reserve list opens up a roster spot, but carries with it no cap relief.

Coleman was originally injured in Thursday night’s game against the Boston Bruins, likely suffering his upper body injury while wrestling with Bruins defender Mason Lohrei at the end of the first period. The duo toppled to the ice, with Coleman landing on the bottom. Coleman played a bit in the second and third periods, but left the game two shifts into the third and didn’t return to the game.

An injury reserve stint means that a player has to be unavailable for seven days dating back to the injury, so this means that Coleman won’t be eligible to return to the active roster until (at least) Friday, meaning he’ll be unavailable to the Flames for Tuesday’s game in Columbus and Thursday’s game in Chicago.

Coleman joins – deep breath – Sam Honzek (upper body), Martin Pospisil (undisclosed), John Beecher (upper body) and Jake Bean (undisclosed) on the injury reserve list. Zayne Parekh remains day-to-day with an upper body injury, as he got banged up a bit during his bronze medal-winning performance at the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship with Team Canada, and he remains on the active roster.

As of this writing, the Flames’ active roster now contains 22 players: two goaltenders, eight defencemen and 12 forwards. Coleman’s IR placement gives the Flames the option to bring up a 13th forward from the Wranglers as an insurance policy in case somebody gets sick or hurt during warm-up or practice while on the road trip.

The Flames are back in action on Tuesday night when they visit the Columbus Blue Jackets.

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