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FN AHL Report Cards: Ivan Prosvetov was passed over in the goaltending depth chart this season
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Photo credit: Angela Burger/Calgary Wranglers
Paige Siewert
May 17, 2026, 12:00 EDTUpdated: May 16, 2026, 21:48 EDT
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Ivan Prosvetov signed with the Calgary Flames organization last summer as an option to back up Dustin Wolf. He was drafted by the Arizona Coyotes organization and last played in North America with the Colorado Avalanche and their AHL affiliates, the Eagles. Prior to his year in Calgary, he played in the KHL with CSKA Moskva.
Prosvetov came to the city with 24 NHL games and 146 AHL games on his hockey resume.

Expectations

The opportunity was there for Prosvetov to earn and keep a backup job in the NHL. It was pretty well established that Dustin Wolf is the generational talent they want in net for the mid to long term and someone coming in needs to be prepared to take some workload off. The spot wouldn’t be handed over either, as Devin Cooley was still in the rotation as an option, so it would be a head-to-head match-up between the two to determine who was the NHL backup and who was the AHL starter.

Performance

Unfortunately for Prosvetov, he was passed over by Devin Cooley very early on. Cooley established a position for himself from the start of the season and was the better all around goaltender through the preseason and early season starts. It seemed this affected Prosvetov’s confidence and around the two month mark of the Wranglers season, the mountain for him to climb to the NHL felt even more unrealistic. 
Ivan Prosvetov also faced a bit of injury trouble over the course of the season. In early December, he suffered a lower body injury that kept him out of the lineup for nearly two months. During this time, other goalies in the organization like Owen Say and Arsenii Sergeev, were given more minutes to show their stuff. By the time Prosvetov was healthy and able to return, Sergeev had established himself as a reliable starter and Prosvetov was starting to become a liability.
Some of Prosvetov’s games felt like they were over shortly after they started, as this was a team that was struggling to put up goals and would fall down two to three goals early in the game. You could feel the frustration from the players and sometimes when comebacks started going, pucks that should’ve been stopped were getting past him. The trust in Prosvetov didn’t feel too high as the season went on. 
By mid-January, Owen Say suffered a lower body injury that required season-ending surgery and Prosvetov was able to return in a backup role for Sergeev. Towards the end of the season, Prosvetov had some more agitation in his lower body and missed a few games. Connor Murphy was called up from the Rapid City Rush to back up Sergeev on back-to-backs and relieve some of the workload. When Prosvetov was able to come back in the second week of March, he only played three more games and gave up six goals in his last two starts. 
Prosvetov finished the season with 25 games played, a 3.76 GAA, a .887 save percentage and a 9-12-2 record. 

Outlook

Ivan Prosvetov feels like one of the failed experiments for the Flames organization this year. He had all the opportunity to create his own path with the team this season and was out-played. As of the end of the season, Prosvetov is an unrestricted free agent and it’s very likely he will not be back with the Flames or Wranglers next year. If that is not the case, hopefully, he can find a fresh start with a new team in North America or overseas to continue his career.

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