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<\/p>\nComing off six consecutive 40-point seasons, Strome slides into Kadri\u2019s spot as a top-six centre and will look to get his season back on track. A frequent healthy scratch of late with Anaheim before being dealt to Calgary on Friday for a seventh-round draft pick, Strome entered Saturday\u2019s game with just nine points on the season.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was just such a tough situation for me this year,\u201d said the 32-year-old Strome. \u201cI\u2019m a better player than they treated me there and I think that I got the short end of the stick, whether it was a little bit of injuries and a bunch of new guys coming in, and that\u2019s OK, that\u2019s hockey.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could have probably just taken it and been an extra forward and rode it out, but I\u2019m a competitive guy and I want to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also making his debut was 31-year-old defenceman Olli Mattaa, acquired from Utah as part of the Weegar trade. The two newest Flames combined on Calgary\u2019s opening goal 19 seconds into the second period with Mattaa setting up Strome at the side of the net to tie it 1-1. It was one of three unanswered goals in the second period as the Flames took the lead for good.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn absolutely insane day, busy 24 hours, telling my kids about getting traded and stuff, they\u2019re pretty emotional,\u201d said Strome, who woke up at 4 a.m. on Saturday to fly to Calgary. \u201cLong day, but as hockey players, the easiest thing to do is just go out there and play. So that was the easy part.\u201d<\/p>\n
He left a good first impression with coach Ryan Huska.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see the composure that he has with the puck, and that\u2019s what 900 games will get you in the NHL,\u201d said the Flames bench boss. \u201cNice to see him score, for sure, early and have impact on a power play, and that\u2019s something that we need here moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Huska is excited to have some veterans coming in to replace the experience they\u2019ve lost to help insulate the club\u2019s younger players. Another forward with experience, 30-year-old Victor Olofsson who came over from Colorado in the Kadri deal, will join Calgary on its upcoming five-game road trip.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need good people around them to show them how to play the game, to teach them the rights and the wrongs and to help build their confidence,\u201d said Huska. \u201cBecause if you put young guys in situations continually that they\u2019re not ready for, it hurts them. Their development goes the other way. And that\u2019s why it\u2019s so important that (general manager Craig Conroy) was able to add three older, quality people that they\u2019re going to help push in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kadri and Weegar were also part of the club\u2019s rotation of alternate captains. As a result, Farabee wore an \u2018A\u2019 for the first time on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things you work toward your whole career, and for the organization and the guys in the room to think of me like that, and to get the honour to wear it, it meant a lot to me and my family,\u201d said Farabee. \u201cAll I can do now is just, you try and be a good leader.\u201d<\/p>\n
FROST WARMS UP<\/p>\n
Morgan Frost also had a big night with a goal and two assists for Calgary (25-30-7) and Blake Coleman had a goal and an assist. Calgary snapped a four-game winless skid.<\/p>\n
Seth Jarvis, who also had a pair of assists, Sean Walker, Alexander Nikishin and Andrei Svechnikov scored for Carolina (40-17-6). The Eastern Conference-leading Hurricanes lost in regulation for just the second time in their last 16 (12-2-2).<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2026.<\/p>\n
Darren Haynes, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming off six consecutive 40-point seasons, Strome slides into Kadri\u2019s spot as a top-six centre and will look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-522448","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\/522448","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=522448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}