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Rasmus Andersson hasn’t told the Flames he’ll only sign with one team: report
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Ryan Pike
Aug 9, 2025, 16:00 EDTUpdated: Aug 10, 2025, 14:35 EDT
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If you bump into a fan of the Calgary Flames during the 2025 off-season, there’s a good chance that the first or second topic on their mind regarding the local hockey club is the future of blueliner Rasmus Andersson.
The 28-year-old Andersson is headed into the sixth and final year of his current contract and, per multiple reports, it sure does sound like player and team are a ways apart on a new contract. As such, it also seems that Andersson will, at some point between now and the trade deadline in March 2026, find himself traded to another team.
On Friday, Swedish journalists David Carlsson and Mikael Ljungberg at Expressen published a quick catch-up with Andersson. And the long and the short of it seems to be: it’s pretty quiet in terms of talks between him and the Flames right now.
Most notably, Andersson was asked about a flurry of reporting from late June that indicated that (a) Andersson had nixed a move to Los Angeles at the draft and (b) he preferred to play for Vegas long-term. (Quotes here via Carlsson and Ljungberg and translated via Google Translate):
“I have still been very appreciated in Calgary for a long time. Then some insider comes with wrong information and then the fans believe it, because they are right about a lot of other things they do and I understand that that is their job. But I have not given Calgary a team, that I only want to play with one team. That is not true, he says.”
Andersson did confirm the existence of an offer, but declined to confirm which team made it. (“Some team made a very good offer, that’s it.”)
“I thought about a lot of things. I talked to my family and thought that right then and there I wasn’t really keen on moving my family there and signing a long-term contract, that’s what it all came down to. I communicated that decision to Calgary. I said if you want to trade me, this is the number of teams I can think of signing for. But this wasn’t one of them.”
A second-round selection by the Flames in the 2015 NHL Draft, Andersson has become a really important member of the hockey club over the past decade. He became a full-time NHLer during the 2018-19 season and has been an alternate captain for the Flames for the past three seasons. One of the first players over the boards in essentially every game situation, Andersson has been a very good Flame for awhile – this past season’s plus/minus figure notwithstanding.
In 536 NHL games with the Flames, Andersson has posted 231 points. He recently captained the Swedish men’s national team to a bronze medal at the World Championships. He’s in the final year of a six year contract that includes a $4.55 million cap hit and a six team no-trade clause. Given his contract, age, experience, and quality of recent performances, he should be a very sought-after commodity in the trade market.
Head over to Expressen to check out the full interview piece… but unless you’re fluent in Swedish, maybe run it through Google Translate first.

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