The Flames have acquired forward Victor Olofsson, prospect\u00a0centre\u00a0Max Curran, a conditional 2028 first-round pick, and a conditional 2027 second-round pick from Colorado in exchange for centre\u00a0Nazem Kadri\u00a0and\u00a0Calgary\u2019s 2027 fourth-round pick.\u00a0Calgary will retain 20% of Kadri\u2019s salary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Olofsson, a native of Ornskoldsvik, SWE, has skated in 60 games for the Avalanche this season, netting 11 goals and adding 14 assists for 25 points. The 30-year-old winger is a veteran of 430 NHL games split between Buffalo, Vegas and Colorado, amassing 236 points from 116 goals and 120 assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n
BORN:\u00a0Ornskoldsvik, Sweden\u00a0DATE: July 18, 1995<\/p>\n
HEIGHT: 5\u201911\u201d \u200bWEIGHT: 180 lbs.<\/p>\n
SHOOTS:\u00a0Left<\/p>\n
DRAFTED:\u00a0BUF\u00a0\u2013\u00a07th\u00a0round (181st\u00a0overall) in the 2014\u00a0NHL Draft<\/p>\n
Prospect\u00a0centre\u00a0Max Curran is in his third\u00a0WHL season, appearing in 31 games, scoring 14 goals and 27 assists for 41 points along with 23 penalty minutes for the Edmonton Oil Kings. He represented Czechia at the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship, helping his nation earn a silver medal while recording five points in seven tournament games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
BORN:\u00a0Prague, Czechia DATE: August 27, 2006<\/p>\n
HEIGHT: 6\u20193\u201d WEIGHT: 187 lbs.<\/p>\n
SHOOTS:\u00a0Left<\/p>\n
DRAFTED:\u00a0COL\u00a0\u2013\u00a05th\u00a0round (161st\u00a0overall) in the 2024\u00a0NHL Draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flames have acquired forward Victor Olofsson, prospect\u00a0centre\u00a0Max Curran, a conditional 2028 first-round pick, and a conditional 2027…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-519318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519318","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=519318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}