The Calgary Flames\u2019 push to get younger continues.<\/p>\n
The team is closing in on a deal to send veteran defenceman MacKenzie Weegar to the Utah Mammoth, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman reports.<\/p>\n
Weegar has a no-trade clause but he has agreed to waive it to complete the trade, Sportsnet\u2019s Eric Francis reports.<\/p>\n
The full return in the trade is not yet know but NHL insider Frank Seravalli reports that 31-year-old defenceman Olli Maatta will be part of the package heading back to Calgary.<\/p>\n
Earlier Wednesday, Weegar spoke to Sportsnet\u2019s Eric Francis about the possibility of being traded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ll put it this way, \u201d he said when asked about possibly waiving his no-trade.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think everything\u2019s got to be put into consideration at some point. Will I? I don\u2019t know, but obviously it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever been in a situation with a lot of rumours around me. So, it\u2019s new, it\u2019s different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weegar, 32, will give the Mammoth an immediate boost to their top-four on the blue line ahead of the playoffs. He isn\u2019t a rental either, with a contract that runs until after the 2030-31 season with a $6.25-million cap hit.<\/p>\n
This season, he leads the Flames with 23:07 of ice time per game, and has three goals, 21 points and a minus-35 in 60 games.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust like they\u2019ve got to consider trading me, I\u2019ve got to consider all the options too,\u201d he told Francis.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I love it here. I want to win here. And it\u2019s just, it\u2019s too bad that we\u2019re all put into situations like this. But it\u2019s part of the game. I kind of just want to focus on how we all have got to find a way to play together, even with all the rumours and stuff. It\u2019s a weird time, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Flames are in the midst of a disappointing season and will miss the playoffs for the fourth-straight season. In January, they traded veteran defenceman Rasmus Andersson to the Vegas Golden Knights and are reportedly shopping Nazem Kadri and Blake Coleman before the March 6 trade deadline.<\/p>\n
Weegar was in his fourth season with the Flames after being acquired alongside Jonathan Huberdeau in the Matthew Tkachuk trade back in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames\u2019 push to get younger continues. The team is closing in on a deal to send…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-514940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514940","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=514940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}