The Calgary Flames have signed pending restricted free agent forward Matt Coronato to a seven-year contract, the club announced Saturday afternoon.

The deal carries an average annual value of $6.5 million. Coronato, 22, is now under team control with the Flames through the end of the 2031-32 season.

Playing in his first full season with the Flames in 2024-25, Coronato established impressive high water marks in goals (24), assists (23) and points (47) over 77 games. He finished third on the Flames in goals and points, behind Nazem Kadri and Jonathan Huberdeau in both categories, and cemented a spot on the team’s No. 1 power-play unit.

The Flames originally selected Coronato in the first round (No. 13 overall) of the 2021 NHL Draft. The Greenlawn, New York product spent his first two post-draft seasons at Harvard University before turning pro with the Flames in the spring of 2023.

Coronato made his NHL debut with the Flames in the 2022-23 season finale and split the following year between the Flames and the AHL’s Calgary Wranglers. He briefly returned to the Wranglers at the start of the 2024-25 season before returning to the NHL for good a short time later.

Through 112 NHL games over parts of three seasons with the Flames, Coronato has collected 27 goals, 56 points, and 31 penalty minutes. The 5’10” winger is the first player to sign a contract with the Flames that extends beyond Jonathan Huberdeau’s eight-year deal.

As a pending 10.2(c) RFA, Coronato was ineligible to be signed to an offer sheet this summer. The Flames have now bought two of Coronato’s UFA years and have him locked down until a few months shy of his 30th birthday.

Flames GM Craig Conroy still has more on his plate this summer. Up next: Connor Zary, Kevin Bahl, and Adam Klapka all need new contracts, while Dustin Wolf and Martin Pospisil are eligible for extensions. And, of course, the Rasmus Andersson situation still looms large over everything else.

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