With the Calgary Flames struggling to find a way out of the Western Conference basement, trade rumours have already started to swirl around the team.

The names of veterans Nazem Kadri, Rasmus Andersson and Blake Coleman have been thrown around with talks likely to intensify as the March 6 trade deadline draws closer.

Coleman has eight goals and 10 points in 25 games to start the year as he looks closer to the form that saw him score 30 goals in 2023-24 after finishing with just 15 last season. Signed through next season at a cap hit of $4.9 million, Coleman is aware he could be on the trade block.

“You hear it, obviously, but I think that’s just part of the job,” Coleman told Wes Gilbertson of Postmedia. “You put yourselves in this kind of situation [with a poor start]. There’s really not a name I haven’t heard. Yeah, some get thrown out more than others obviously. Thankfully, I guess, I learned a lesson early in the league that anything can happen on any day. I was in New Jersey and they told me that I was going to be part of the core and the future, and two weeks later I was traded. So if the right offer comes across for anybody …

“I was a young guy with a good contract. I thought I was safe. They were talking about all the old guys and I was the first one out the door, so … It is what it is. People have a job to do and, honestly, it keeps my family entertained, my parents and all that. I just mute the chat and just go play.”

Coleman’s comments came prior to the Flames 5-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday, which dropped the team’s record to 8-14-3. While Wednesday’s loss snapped a three-game winning streak, Calgary still has the worst points percentage in the NHL at .380.

The 33-year-old winger was flipped by the New Jersey Devils to the Lightning in 2020, winning two Stanley Cups with the team before joining the Flames in 2021.

Selected by the Devils in the third round of the 2011 draft, Coleman has 158 goals and 300 points in 649 career games.

Kadri, 35, has four goals and 18 points in 25 games to start the season. He remains signed through 2028-29 at a cap hit of $7 million.

Andersson, who remained with Calgary despite being on the trade block throughout the off-season, has five goals and 16 points in 25 games. The 29-year-old blueliner is a pending unrestricted free agent and carries a cap hit of $4.55 million through this season.