{"id":915746,"date":"2026-09-30T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915746\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:52:13","slug":"flames-announce-leadership-group-calgary-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915746\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames Announce Leadership Group | Calgary Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Flames announced today their leadership group for the 2026\u201327 season, with Mikael Backlund serving as team captain for the fourth consecutive year. He will be joined by Jonathan Huberdeau and Zach Whitecloud as alternate captains.<\/p>\n<p>With Huberdeau currently sidelined due to injury, the Flames will rotate the alternate captaincy among Joel Farabee, Jake Middleton and Ryan Strome during his absence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re fortunate to have a group with a lot of character, experience and leadership,\u201d said Flames General Manager Craig Conroy. \u201cMikael has been an outstanding captain for us the past three seasons. Jonathan and Zach bring strong leadership to our group, and while Jonathan is out, Joel, Jake and Ryan will each have an opportunity to step up and take on a greater role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Ryan Huska added, \u201cLeadership isn\u2019t just about wearing a letter. It\u2019s about the way you prepare, compete and support your teammates every day. We have a number of players who do that, and we\u2019re confident this group will set the standard for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Flames open up the 2026-27 season at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Thursday, October 1st when they host the Seattle Kraken at 7:00pm MT. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.ca\/calgary-flames-vs-seattle-kraken-presented-calgary-alberta-10-01-2026\/event\/110064FC82C03262\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames announced today their leadership group for the 2026\u201327 season, with Mikael Backlund serving as team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-915746","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\/915746","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=915746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}