Flames trade rumours INTENSIFYING... MULTIPLE players on the block | Calgary Flames News

Calgary Flames trade rumors are intensifying as a new face has been added to the mix on the trade block for the Flames, and that man is Mr. Joel Farabee. Plus, we have the latest on the ongoing trade rumors involving Connor Zary and Zach Whitecloud. We're going to get to all that more in this video, but first I want to welcome you to Flames Digest. I'm Mark Griffith. If you're new around here and you love the Flames, make sure you subscribe so you can stay up to date on all the latest news, updates, reports, and rumors revolving around your Calgary Flames. We would love to welcome you to the flames digest family and let's get into the latest trade rumors here as you know you kind of heard just heard it in the intro but an interesting name actually just popped up for the flames in trade talks and it kind of stems from the athletic but other people were talking about it as well most notably on twitter uh but if we do look at the article from the athletic first what they wrote is one under the radar trade candidate from every nhl team for the 2026-27 season and we already know Connor Zary has been involved in trade talks for a long time now and with him obviously you know going through the waiver process now playing with the Wranglers his name is still very relevant in the trade rumor mill Zach Whitecloud same thing just because he's probably Calgary's biggest trade asset or at least realistic trade asset I should say you know we've heard a little bit of Frost maybe some other players in there but the under the radar one that came out is Joel Farabee and this was written by our old writer Julian McKenzie who obviously is no longer writing for the Flames but still does a little bit so he wrote technically everyone who isn't under 24 should be a trade candidate for the Flames which is just true that's the Craig Conroy era for you he says but if Farabee continues to rack up points he could fetch a return at the deadline and Joel Farabee has arguably been the best player for the Flames this season which is pretty crazy so if we get into some of his stats here is it luck is it for real with what he's been going on this is in terms of goals i would say you know no goals shooting percentages at zero does that mean that his trade value is lower right now I mean it might I don't think anyone would be acquiring Fairbey to score goals and I I don't imagine anyone would you know necessarily expect him to be a big goal scorer if they were to trade for him as of right now maybe wait for him to get a few more goals and the trade value goes up if not we know that he's kind of a you know jack of all trades he's a Swiss Army knife but more of a playmaker than obviously a play finisher I should say but the timing of this report is interesting because there it might start a bit of a Fairbey trade watch here so Mike Gold writer for Flames Nation uh he writes Mike Gold or sorry he says places Fairbey in the maybe next year tier so he does not have Fairbey and being traded this year but maybe next year which is definitely a possibility as well but if you don't trade him this year wait until next year does he become part of the core for the Flames want to keep him around I mean he's already part of the leadership group so it's you know wouldn't be a bad idea to keep around either uh his extension eligibility eligibility begins next summer as well and there's no verified report of an imminent deal so no one you know is saying he's getting traded right away which I mean kind of goes without saying um his season so far as you can see a few green stats in here he's been okay on the power play and like I said he's got some assists again no goals which isn't exactly you know fantastic but he's not expected to be a huge goal scorer despite him actually doing okay last year and we know he goes through these crazy long dry spells um didn't he do that as soon as he became a Flame and then last year for a long time as well but you know the statistics aren't going to be amazing for any Flames especially when you get into that kind of you know plus minus category of yeah his value isn't exactly going to increase unless the Flames for some reason go on a crazy run which wouldn't exactly be too unexpected but if we take a look at his contract as well it's very affordable it's just five million dollars per year so I mean no that's not the cheapest contract in the league but most teams would be able to bring that on if they wanted Fairbee. And who knows what the Flames do in a trade that could revolve around Fairbee. You take a contract back or you retain some money. I know that's not exactly what we want to do, but it definitely is an option. So is it kind of a sell low question right now? Is it, would it be selling low? So listen to offers without shopping a drought is totally fine. Weigh his role beside Calgary's young forwards. I think that increases the value that would mean selling a little bit higher than selling super low. And then a strong offer can still change the decision of course Craig Conroy is going to listen to any offers there are for any of his players and if it knocks his socks off then he's absolutely going to go for it but that's what's going on with Fairbee if we move over to White Cloud now it's interesting one person commented recently I think this was about a week ago said trade White Cloud now because he's not slotted correctly and his value is decreasing as the Flames goals against goes ballistic so if we're up to this user here definitely would trade him now more than waiting and then his value might go a little bit lower. So David Pagnotta, he said, I believe there have been at least exploratory increase. So definitely teams reaching out. We heard the big reports of, you know, Toronto has been interested. They need a replacement for Tanev because he's always injured. You know, we can trade with the Flames now that Tree Living's no longer there and, you know, and beyond essentially. So beyond the points, you know, White Cloud, his, again, his statistics, his offensive production it's not gonna knock someone else's socks off um but he does throw the body around quite a bit of course he blocks shots he's 47th in the NHL right now um plays a lot of minutes as well and unfortunately he does have more giveaways than takeaways that's just because who the heck else has the the puck on their stick for this team but we know that his value is higher than just you know the statistics it's the leadership and it's what he brings to this young core being the leader there helping develop them and obviously being just a great human in general absolutely love the guy white cloud as well extremely affordable contract at just 2.75 mil so in any trade that involved white cloud other than maybe with the Leafs with their cap issues you know we probably wouldn't have to retain and if need be if it were to a team in a cap crunch then you can always take a contract back of course which i tried to make a mock trade here you know on digest sports.com again please go feel free to check it out there is a trade generator on there a mock trade machine I tried to make one that worked that involved the first round pick it just wasn't happening with the Leafs but according to the generator on digest sports.com they think a second and third round pick from Toronto to Calgary for just Zach Whitecloud there's no retention or anything would be a fair trade again we'd have to make the cap work somehow but that could absolutely work and I don't know I'd like to get a first back for Whitecloud, do I think that's all that realistic? Not necessarily but getting a couple picks I mean that could definitely work so it comes to Calgary's decision honestly on Whitecloud if it were to be a trade with Toronto Toronto must solve the cap before a deal works that's their problem not necessarily ours if we get loads more back for solving that problem for them then I'm okay with that too the proposed picks are a discussion price so that mock there it's it's just you know for talks it's not necessarily yes that would be fair yes the Flames should do that again just a discussion point but keeping a veteran partner also has value so keeping you know Whitecloud around especially if he ever gets to play with Perreault again i think that could be very beneficial for Perreault and for the team in general and probably for Whitecloud but again no rush to trade Whitecloud right now now the last guy of course is Connor Zary decided to throw his stats in despite a very small sample size and just two games played has the one point as we know his stats aren't exactly going to be fantastic because he hasn't played all that much but he still remains you know in the trade rumor mill Elliot Friedman says i think they've discussed taking a contract back so as just you know talked about with Whitecloud maybe you bring a contract back in for Zary they definitely would be down to do that because in no way are they ever going to retain on a Zary contract for a trade he only again has 3.77 mil pretty affordable for another team to pick up but again for a team that might be more of a cap crunch we'd be willing to take a contract back for sure but I don't even know if anything's going to happen with the Connor Zarić situation at this point again love that the Y's always get caught up uh Connor Zarić um here's the mock trade I could come up with again Vancouver has been the main team talked about that was more so still when Otto Rossi was a member of them and now he's on the Leafs so maybe he could have could have just done a Flames and Leafs trade for this one but not even a third round pick for Zeri seemed fair to the generator at digestsports.com they went with a fourth round pick so would I do this I don't know I'd try to do something a little bit better and it's not like a Vancouver fourth round pick is going to be all that good so I don't know how I feel about this one to be honest Vancouver unlike Toronto can definitely afford the whole contract so I think that might be part of the reason why we couldn't get anything higher but there wouldn't be any extracurriculars in terms of money or finances for this one if we take a look at where he would fit into the Canucks lineup it seems as though he could maybe be their third line center I know that's really just me trying to increase Zarić's value here do I think he's actually a third line center not necessarily um could absolutely be one and maybe that's the way you pitch it to Vancouver is he can solve some of your you know center problems and be fantastic despite him not being able to do ours but maybe you pitch it that way to Vancouver and try to get at least a third round pick back so sell or does he have rebuild value sell or keep, there's no retention in this proposal, Vancouver buys a rebound opportunity, that's the whole point trying to get very sloppy seconds here and then Calgary can keep developing in the AHL if need be. Does he have that rebuild value? Could he be part of the team for the future? Kind of seems like they're ready to sever ties on both ends but you know there's there's definitely still a discussion to be had about trading Zeri and the rest of these guys. Now let's get into tonight's game as the Flames are back home this time against the defending Stanley Cup champions. We're hosting the Hurricanes tonight at 6 p.m. at the Dome. It's crazy how you know the more games we have at home the less there are in the dome remaining in its history but uh should be a fun one no matter what we might get smoked because obviously Carolina's still really good but the projected lines or at least this is what the lines were at practice yesterday at the time of recording I have no idea what the lines are going to be so don't think that this will for sure be the lines but it's probably a good indication and they are wild if we take a look at the forward lines first so Farabee on the top line with Backlund and Coronado, nuts Sunyev with Frost and Sharky as your second line, Gridden Pospisil and Strom I mean they kind of remain together and then Slip, sorry, Sipulkova, one of Castagna or Othman and Klapka as the fourth line so none of Coronado, Frost and Gridden together and then the D pairings is where it gets a little bit more exciting, Ball remains with Nemec but Middleton now put with Whitecloud and Kuznetsov with Parekh could this just be an audition for the future of having Koozie and Parekh together, I I mean I like that Huska is changing things around in the D-core here but not putting Parekh with Whitecloud is still quite the suggestion here or quite the idea I know it would mean that someone else has to play on their offside not just Perek but it's really interesting Hanley as your seventh and then Wolf was looking like he'd be the starter I'm not too sure if that's going to be the case um as we do head into tonight but all indications so far are saying that Wolf would be now if we get into the standings I just wanted to show how hot Carolina is they're on a seven game winning streak they're seven one and one the top record in the Eastern Conference so not only are they the defending Cup champions but they're the hottest team in the league so this is going to be a tough one for who is essentially the worst team in the league in the Calgary Flames even Philly there as you can see got a win last night LA still doesn't have one though so we have that over them and then the key to the game for me will be those special teams again so as we saw in the last game and just throughout this whole season is that the Flames are actually doing okay five on five but when it comes to the penalty kill and power play they get out played like crazy they get out shot like crazy uh both kind of middle of the pack in terms of our power play percentage and penalty kill I know it's still early in the year but hopefully if the special teams are good then the Flames can be somewhat a little bit better now let's get into the comment of the day to wrap up this video as we love to do here on the channel comes from yesterday's video of course and this was a great one here from Deschapelles saying Flames cannot finish they have the worst shooting percentage in the league how is that possible how is it not Philly uh they say they're getting like two or more breakaways a game and they haven't scored on a single one their power play percentage is also middle of the pack so it's really just how bad they are at finishing on their generated scoring chances throughout an entire game and that's what it comes down to that's what yesterday's whole video was about was us being able to create chances and not finishing and it's so true if the flames could finish they'd be doing much better but they're not and maybe that's okay in a rebuild tank year but um yeah it's been a little bit frustrating to watch that they're able to generate these chances they just cannot put the puck in the net thank you so much for watching this video please subscribe if you like what you saw here today and have a wonderful rest of your day