{"id":841181,"date":"2026-08-01T22:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841181\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:06:23","slug":"fns-2026-flames-summer-prospect-rankings-hm-misa-matveiko-and-leander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841181\/","title":{"rendered":"FN\u2019s 2026 Flames summer prospect rankings \u2013 HM: Misa, Matveiko and Leander"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Calgary Flames have added a bevy of talented young hockey players to their prospect base over the past few years.<\/p>\n

With all these additions, we had 38 players eligible for consideration in FlamesNation\u2019s yearly summer prospect rankings. Not everybody could crack the top 20, but we felt like everyone deserved profiling given how deep the system has become.<\/p>\n

Here are three more players that didn\u2019t crack the top 20.<\/p>\n

Luke Misa<\/p>\n

Forward; shoots left
Born Nov. 25, 2005 (age 20) in Oakville, Ontario
5\u201910\u201d, 176 pounds
Drafted in the fifth round (150th overall) by Calgary in the 2024 NHL Draft<\/p>\n

The older brother of San Jose prospect Michael Misa, Luke is a slightly under-sized offensive forward. He progressed really nicely across four seasons in the Ontario Hockey League with the Mississauga\/Brampton Steelheads. He was really productive offensively over his last two OHL seasons but wasn\u2019t quite dominant, so heading to the NCAA to keep working on his game<\/a> made a lot of sense.<\/p>\n

Misa had what we would call a fairly typical freshman season. He was a middle-six centre for Penn State, usually playing on the third line. He spent the first half of the season adjusting, but he seemed to find his footing in the second half of the season. He had 19 points as a freshman, good for eighth on a fairly deep team. He\u2019ll probably get more opportunities in 2026-27 as a sophomore given his level of experience and some departures from last year\u2019s group.<\/p>\n

Yan Matveiko<\/p>\n

Forward; shoots left
Born Aug. 13, 2006 (age 19) in Moskva, Russia
6\u20191\u2033, 150 pounds
Drafted in the seventh round (211th overall) by Calgary in the 2025 NHL Draft<\/p>\n

On a pretty deep junior team, he was fourth on his team in scoring and played primarily on his team\u2019s second line (and in all game situations). He wasn\u2019t a dominant junior player so he might have a bit of a tougher road to the KHL; he played a single game for the Red Army\u2019s second-tier pro team, Zvezda Moskva, and he\u2019ll probably get more opportunities over the next couple seasons after signing a contract extension. We\u2019ll see if he can keep building his game.<\/p>\n

Jakob Leander<\/p>\n

Defenceman; shoots right
Born Feb. 3, 2007 (age 19) in J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping, Sweden
6\u20194\u2033, 214 pounds
Drafted in the seventh round (208th overall) by Calgary in the 2025 NHL Draft<\/p>\n

Jakob Leander is more or less a less polished, right shooting version of Axel Hurtig, who the Flames selected late in the 2023 NHL Draft and has progressed quite nicely. Leander boasts size and a willingness to use that size to defend efficiently, but he spent last season on an HV71 junior side that really struggled and so his offensive numbers didn\u2019t really jump off the page, nor did he get any chances to play pro hockey.<\/p>\n

Leander\u2019s headed to the WHL\u2019s Calgary Hitmen in 2026-27<\/a>, ironically enough taking the import spot vacated by Axel Hurtig graduating to the pro ranks. Hurtig came to the Flames with a more impressive resume based on some national team opportunities he had received, but Leander is a very similar player and time will tell if he has a similar growth pattern as Hurtig did with the Hitmen.PRESENTED BY THE FLAMESNATION NEWSLETTER\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames have added a bevy of talented young hockey players to their prospect base over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-841181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841181","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=841181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}