Flames prospect Matvei Gridin has been named to the Pacific Division roster for the upcoming American Hockey League All-Star Classic, the league announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
Gridin, 19, sits third among active Calgary Wranglers scorers with 28 points (10G, 18A) from 32 games played. He made his NHL debut for the Flames Oct. 8 at Edmonton, scoring his first NHL goal as part of a 4-3 Calgary shootout victory. His 28 points are the second-most among AHL rookies this season.<\/p>\n
The No. 28 selection in the 2024 NHL Draft, Gridin has appeared in four NHL contests this season. He is one of 12 first-round NHL Draft picks named to the event and one of 30 participants to have played in NHL games during the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n
The 2026 AHL All-Star Classic will be held Feb. 10-11 in Rockford, Illinois.<\/p>\n
The 2026 AHL All-Star Skills Competition Feb. 10 will pit the All-Stars from the two Eastern Conference divisions against those from the two Western Conference divisions in seven skills events. In the 2026 AHL All-Star Challenge Feb. 11, the four teams will participate in a 3-on-3, round-robin tournament featuring six games of eight minutes each. The two teams with the best records at the end of the round-robin will face off for the championship in a final eight-minute, 3-on-3 game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flames prospect Matvei Gridin has been named to the Pacific Division roster for the upcoming American Hockey League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-412186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412186","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=412186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}