{"id":416001,"date":"2026-01-17T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416001\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:32:07","slug":"flames-make-several-roster-moves-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416001\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames Make Several Roster Moves \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Flames have made a series of transactions heading into their game against the Islanders.\u00a0 The team announced (Twitter link<\/a>) that winger Matvei Gridin<\/a> has been recalled from AHL Calgary.\u00a0 To make room on the roster, winger William Stromgren<\/a> was sent back to the Wranglers. Additionally, defenceman Zayne Parekh<\/a> was also sent down on a conditioning loan.<\/p>\n

Gridin was a first-round pick by Calgary in 2024, going 28th overall.\u00a0 While he had a solid showing last season with QMJHL Shawinigan, he wasn\u2019t expected to realistically contend for a roster spot in training camp.\u00a0 However, after potting three goals in six preseason contests, Gridin broke camp with the Flames and got into four games with them, picking up his first NHL goal before being sent down to the Wranglers a little more than a week into the season.<\/p>\n

In the minors, Gridin has been quite impressive.\u00a0 He has 10 goals and 18 assists in 32 games with the Wranglers, good for a share of second overall among all rookies which has helped earn this promotion.\u00a0 Gridin can play up to five more games with the Flames this season without burning the first year of his entry-level contract so it will be interesting to see if the team intends to give him just a quick look or a longer opportunity that officially activates his deal.<\/p>\n

As for Stromgren, he received his first NHL promotion earlier this month and was in and out of the lineup, getting into three games with the Flames altogether.\u00a0 The 22-year-old had a very limited role in those outings, playing just 7:17 per game while being held off the scoresheet.\u00a0 Stromgren has been one of the better playmakers for the Wranglers, however, picking up 23 assists in 33 contests.\u00a0 He\u2019ll now get a chance to go back to playing a much more prominent role compared to the fourth-line minutes he was seeing with the big club.<\/p>\n

Parekh, meanwhile, has yet to play since returning from playing for Canada at the World Juniors.\u00a0 The 19-year-old isn\u2019t eligible to play full-time for the Wranglers but now that he has been scratched long enough, he is eligible for this conditioning stint which can last for up to two weeks.\u00a0 It seems likely that management will want him to play the full two weeks in the minors, meaning he won\u2019t likely rejoin the Flames until the end of the month.\u00a0 Parekh, a top performer with OHL Saginaw to the tune of 203 points over his last two seasons, has one assist in 11 NHL contests while playing a little under 15 minutes per night of playing time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flames have made a series of transactions heading into their game against the Islanders.\u00a0 The team announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6066,49,762,48,174765,82,4584,174766,158961],"class_list":["post-416001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ahl","tag-ca","tag-calgary-flames","tag-canada","tag-matvei-gridin","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-william-stromgren","tag-zayne-parekh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416001","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=416001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}