{"id":102674,"date":"2025-08-28T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102674\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:53:07","slug":"snapshots-backlund-senators-miftakhov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102674\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshots: Backlund, Senators, Miftakhov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Flames center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/backlmi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-08-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mikael Backlund<\/a> recently <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/08\/flames-seem-set-to-trade-rasmus-andersson-per-teammate.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">commented<\/a> on the future of one of his teammates with the organization, he also discussed his own.\u00a0 Speaking with The Athletic\u2019s Michael Russo (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6576283\/2025\/08\/27\/rasmus-andersson-flames-nhl-player-tour\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscription link<\/a>), the 36-year-old indicated that he is hoping to sign a contract extension to continue with Calgary.\u00a0 The Flames have been the only NHL organization that Backlund has known after they drafted him in the first round back in 2007.\u00a0 Last season, Backlund played in 76 games, picking up 15 goals and 17 assists in a little under 19 minutes a night of playing time.\u00a0 He\u2019s entering the final year of his contract that carries a $4.5MM cap charge and notably, his trade protection drops to a 15-team no-trade list in January.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere around the hockey world:<\/p>\n<p>The Senators <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bellevillesens.com\/echl-affiliation-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced<\/a> that they have reached an affiliation agreement with ECHL Allen for the upcoming season. They had previously been affiliated with the Americans in 2022-23 and 2023-24 before Utah stepped in and became their affiliate last season, leaving Ottawa without an ECHL squad.\u00a0 Now, the situations have been reversed with the Sens getting their affiliation back while the Mammoth look like they won\u2019t have one in the 30-team league.<br \/>\nCarolina\u2019s signing of goaltender <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/375630\/amir-miftakhov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amir Miftakhov<\/a> this summer came as a bit of a surprise since he\u2019s only a few years removed from terminating his entry-level contract to return home to Russia. However, he <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sport.evening-kazan.ru\/xokkei\/articles\/amir-miftahov-ne-hochu-ehat-v-nhl-i-dumat-o-vozvrashchenii-cel---kubok-stenli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">noted to Evening Kazan\u2019s Dmitry Yashkin<\/a> that the Hurricanes actually attempted to bring him back to North America in 2023, only one full season after leaving Tampa Bay\u2019s organization but he decided that staying in the KHL a little longer made sense.\u00a0 He also noted that there is no European Assignment Clause in his contract and that he won\u2019t be looking to head home midseason again if he winds up in the minors as expected with AHL Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Flames center Mikael Backlund recently commented on the future of one of his teammates with the organization,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[59164,49,762,48,748,7585,58711,448,744,7587,82,765],"class_list":["post-102674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-amir-miftakhov","tag-ca","tag-calgary-flames","tag-canada","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-echl","tag-mikael-backlund","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-snapshots","tag-sports","tag-utah-mammoth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}