On Canada Day, the Calgary Flames had nine players become unrestricted free agents. Moreover, a bunch of former Flames also became unrestricted free agents, departing their new clubs.

Five days into free agency, here’s a quick snapshot of which Flames UFAs remain available in the marketplace, and which recent former Flames (and less recent ones) have found new homes for the 2025-26 season.

Nine players under Flames contracts for 2024-25 became UFAs on July 1: goaltenders Waltteri Ignatjew, Connor Murphy and Dan Vladar, defencemen Jonathan Aspirot, Tyson Barrie and Jarred Tinordi, and forwards Martin Frk, Anthony Mantha and Kevin Rooney.

Dan Vladar, the Flames’ backup last season, signed a two year deal with the Philadelphia Flyers with a $3.35 million cap hit. It’s likely that Vladar will play more for the Flyers than he would have as Dustin Wolf’s understudy in Calgary, and given the persistent mess the Philadelphia crease seems to be, there’s an opportunity there for Vladar to become their top guy.

Anthony Mantha suffered a knee injury off a fairly innocuous-looking hit in Montreal a month into the season that required season-ending surgery. Thankfully, Mantha found a new home for 2025-26, signing a one year deal with $2.5 million in “regular” salary and $2 million in potential performance bonuses, all tied to games-played (via PuckPedia) – because Mantha missed most of last season and had a certain amount of NHL experience up to that point, he qualifies for performance bonuses.

Meanwhile, Wranglers defender Jonathan Aspirot, who had earned an NHL deal for 2024-25 after being really effective on an AHL deal in the 2023-24 season, left the Flames as a Group 6 free agent and signed a one year deal with the Boston Bruins. Wranglers backup netminder Waltteri Ignatjew has also found a new home, signing a two year deal with Linkopings HC of the Swedish Hockey League. Martin Frk, on an NHL deal with the Flames last season, re-upped with the Wranglers on an AHL deal for 2025-26.

As of this writing, Barrie, Murphy, Rooney and Tinordi have yet to sign deals for 2025-26.

We regret to inform you that a pair of fairly well-regarded former Flames have landed in Edmonton. 2015 Flames draft choice Andrew Mangiapane, who played 417 games with the Flames between 2017-18 and 2023-24, signed a two year deal with Edmonton. Meanwhile, Curtis Lazar, who played 70 games with the Flames between 2016-17 and 2018-19, signed a one year deal.

Former Flames backup David “Big Save Dave” Rittich, who played 130 games for Calgary from 2016-17 to 2020-21, has landed with the New York Islanders on a one year deal.

2019 first-round selection Jakob Pelletier, who was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers in January after 61 games over three seasons, ended up not receiving a qualifying offer from the Flyers. But the Tampa Bay Lightning signed him to a unique three year deal – a one-way in the first year that converts to a two-way later on.

Finally, less prominent ex-Flames that found new homes include Tyler Pitlick (Minnesota), Dennis Gilbert (Philadelphia), Matthew Phillips (San Diego, AHL) and Walker Duehr (Winnipeg).