{"id":515238,"date":"2026-03-05T04:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515238\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:41:07","slug":"i-think-ill-be-very-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/515238\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Think I&#8217;ll Be Very Happy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olli M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4 is, in a word, excited to join the Flames.<\/p>\n<p>The defenceman was dealt from the Utah Mammoth Wednesday night \u2013 along with touted prospect Jonathan Castagna and three 2026 second-round picks \u2013 in exchange for Calgary blueliner MacKenzie Weegar.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4 has suited up for 22 games for Utah this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited,\u201d said M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4 by phone from Philly, where the Mammoth were in town to play the Flyers Thursday night. \u201cDefinitely exciting. It\u2019s never easy to be traded but looking forward to the new start there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeard great things about the city and the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he had a great chat with the always affable Flames GM Craig Conroy, furthering his enthusiasm to join the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more I talked to him, he added, \u201cthe more excited I got.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4 has 783 NHL games under his belt with Pittsburgh, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and Utah. He won the Stanley Cup twice with the Pens and has 42 goals and 196 points in his career.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/flames\/news\/flames-acquire-maatta-castagna-three-second-round-picks-from-utah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS IN PRESS RELEASE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He described himself as a \u201ctwo-way defenceman who takes pride in handling and moving the puck well, and playing good defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rearguard said he\u2019s looking forward to the fresh start with the Flames, wanting to take advantage of this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019ll be very happy when I get there,\u201d he said. \u201cSeems like a great spot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olli M\u00e4\u00e4tt\u00e4 is, in a word, excited to join the Flames. The defenceman was dealt from the Utah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-515238","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\/515238","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=515238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}