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Flames sign college defenceman Abram Wiebe to entry-level deal (two years, $950,000 AAV)
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Ryan Pike
Apr 10, 2026, 13:45 EDT
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Friends, Wiebe watch has concluded. The Calgary Flames have gotten their man.
Per multiple reports on Friday morning, the Flames have signed college defenceman Abram Wiebe to an entry-level contract. Wiebe is currently 22 (and considered to be signing as a 23-year-old per the CBA’s definition of age), so he’s getting a two-year ELC. The first season of his deal will toll this year, as he’s expected to join the Flames for the remainder of this season. Per Puckpedia, Wiebe’s deal carries a $950,000 AAV.
Our pal Pat Steinberg at Sportsnet hinted heavily on Thursday evening that a deal was close, while the Grand Forks Herald’s ace college reporter Brad Elliott Schlossman reported it was a done deal on Friday morning.
A left shot defender from Mission, BC, Wiebe played three full seasons with the British Columbia Hockey League’s Chilliwack Chiefs, serving as the club’s captain in his final season. An August 2003 birthday, he went unclaimed in the 2021 NHL Draft but was a seventh round pick, 209th overall, by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2022 draft in his second year of eligibility.
He played the 2022-23 season with Chilliwack and then joined the NCAA’s University of North Dakota in 2023-24 as a 20-year-old freshman. He had 10 points in 40 games as a freshman, then jumped his production up to 24 points in 38 games in 2024-25 as a sophomore. Per the Grand Forks Herald’s Brad Elliott Schlossman, Wiebe had contract talks with Vegas last summer but opted to return to UND for his junior year.
Wiebe’s NHL rights transferred to the Flames in the Rasmus Andersson trade back in January. He ended up having a superb junior season, posting 29 points in 40 games while playing with New York Rangers prospect E.J. Emery and 2026 NHL Draft top prospect Keaton Verhoeff and serving as an alternate captain. He was also named a Second Team Conference All-Star.
Per Sportsnet’s Pat Steinberg, Wiebe was on an accelerated academic track – we don’t know this for sure, but it seems likely he took some college classes during his 18 and/or 19-year-old seasons in the BCHL – and is set to graduate this spring, so the Flames were facing the possibility of losing Wiebe’s rights sometime in the next few months. As the saying goes, deadlines tend to spur action, and both sides seemed to have incentive to get a deal hashed out.
Wiebe joins a really interesting group of players set to become full-time pros in the Flames organization in 2026-27, including Tyson Gross, Jonathan Castagna, Axel Hurtig and Andrew Basha. And as a left shot blueliner, he could be a really valuable compliment to the slew of right shot puck-moving defenders already in the organization.
We’ll see how quickly Wiebe can report to the Flames and when he ends up making his NHL debut in the near future.

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