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FN Report Cards: Morgan Frost made a jump in scoring and face-off success
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Paige Siewert
May 12, 2026, 14:00 EDTUpdated: May 12, 2026, 15:25 EDT
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The Calgary Flames wanted standout centres in the 2025-26 season and found one in Morgan Frost. He showed growth in his game this year in both his face-off stats and point production capabilities and was an exciting player to watch down the stretch of a disappointing season. He wasn’t one of the new guys anymore and his comfort level translated on the ice. He showed his buy in and made a great cultural fit with the other guys in the locker room.

Expectations

Morgan Frost was a mid-season addition to the Flames, so while he settled into a new team, he was treated with some grace. Especially when the move had implications of finding him a fresh start to be more successful. Frost had 11 goals and 14 assists in his first 49 games of the 2024-25 season with the Philadelphia Flyers, then three goals and nine assists in the remaining 32 games with the Flames. Frost showed signs of offensive prowess so the expectation was that it would translate more into his first full season in Calgary. 

Performance

This season ended up being the first year of Frost’s professional career that he was able to play in all 82 games of the season. That ended up in a performance that was just three points shy of his career best with 43 points. He did still break a personal record however, by hitting and exceeding the 20 goal mark, which he was one away from in his 2022-23 season. Frost ended with a team leading 22 goals and 21 assists, which put him just under Matt Coronato in the overall points category. His plus/minus finished at minus-16. 
Frost earned a high spot in the lineup mostly centring the first or second lines with a combination of Matt Coronato, Jonathan Huberdeau, Matvei Gridin, or Yegor Sharangovich at different points in the season. Frost hit a career high in face-off percentage, finishing with 56.8% this season. This was five percent higher than last season, which was his previous career record. This led the regular centres on the team with only Sam Morton exceeding his face-off percentage in a three game stretch Morton was called up for. 

Outlook 

This season, Morgan Frost really separated himself from the middle of the pack and made himself a top performer on an underperforming team. He helped fill a gap down the middle that the organization was concerned about and developed some great chemistry alongside Matt Coronato, especially. It feels like both Frost and Coronato have some runway left to improve on this season and come back next year with even more in the tank. In exit meetings he shared an evaluation of his season and said:
“I took another step. Got a little more opportunity. I’d like to be a little bit more consistent over a full season but in general happy with some of those strides I took and I’d just like to keep building on it.”
Frost felt better about the second half of his season as opposed to the first half and talked about some of the things that boiled down to. He said:
“Just really focused on trying to play the game faster, make plays quicker, move my feet. I feel like sometimes when I get my feet going I’m a fast player and it’s when I’m trying to slow the game down is when I get into trouble.”
Frost continued:
“I want to take that next step. I’m an offensive player. I think that’s pretty well known. That’s kinda what I’m here to do. Everyone wants to produce more for sure. We gotta find a way to score more goals. You can say you want to try and win games 2-1 but at some point we gotta score more goals and win games that way.”
Morgan Frost is signed through the end of next season and in the spirit of the younger direction this team is going in, a regular line of Matvei Gridin, Morgan Frost and Matt Coronato next year could be one of the most exciting combinations we’ve seen in recent seasons.

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