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• Flames need to ignite trade talks

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Flames Need to Ignite Trade Talks Soon

Who knows how the Calgary Flames will perform in 2023-24, but their new general manager Craig Conroy may already be leading the league in pressure.

The Flames have several players – including Elias Lindholm, Noah Hanifin, Mikael Backlund, Oliver Kylington and Chris Tanev – eligible for unrestricted free agency next season.

The prevailing wisdom is that Conroy needs to either sign or trade Lindholm, Hanifin and Backlund. But a month before the launch of NHL training camps, Conroy hasn’t signed or traded any of them.

The only trade the Flames have made this summer is moving Tyler Toffoli to New Jersey for Yegor Sherangovich.

The Flames want to make a hockey trade, rather than acquire draft picks, because they aren’t looking to go into a rebuild mode. Sportsnet reports that deals haven’t happened because “strong offers just haven’t been there.”

The added pressure to make strong deals is that the organization first watched Johnny Gaudreau leave with Calgary getting nothing in return.

Then, Matthew Tkachuk told the team he was leaving. Calgary’s then-GM Brad Treliving traded him for Jonathan Huberdeau and MacKenzie Weegar.

Flames fans probably would argue that the deal hasn’t yet served the Flames well.

The largest impediment to moving players this summer has been in the reality that the majority of teams in the NHL don’t have the salary cap space to acquire big-salaried players.

But there are some teams interested. The Buffalo Sabres reportedly have interest in Hanifin and the Boston Bruins need a center like Lindholm or Backlund to replace the retiring Patrice Bergeron or David Krejci.

The Flames are trying to re-sign Lindholm. That may be the player they have the best chance of retaining.

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