The Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League handed out team awards on Wednesday. Among those award winners was Calgary Flames prospect Hunter Brzustewicz. Brzustewicz was presented with three awards: the Jim Malleck Trophy, the Bob Schlieman Award and the Blueline Club Award.
The season may be largely complete – aside from the Stanley Cup and Memorial Cup tournaments – but award announcements continue throughout the hockey world.
The Calgary Flames head into the 2024 NHL draft with nine picks total, eight of those being in the first four rounds of the draft. One option for Craig Conroy and his management team is to use some of those draft picks and current NHL players to help them get another pick or two in the top half of the first round.
The Calgary Flames don’t currently have a core. Yes, they have some strong veteran players. They also have some promising young prospects. But they don’t have the foundational pieces that every contending team in the National Hockey League has built around.
Saturday night was the Calgary Flames’ final Hockey Night in Canada appearance of the 2023-24 season. To commemorate the season winding down, Scott Oake and Ryan Leslie had Craig Conroy as their guest on After Hours.
Folks, by this point in the year, you probably know about Calgary Flames prospect Hunter Brzustewicz. He’s a defenceman in the Flames system that they acquired from the Vancouver Canucks as part of the Elias Lindholm trade at the end of January.
Each year, as the junior hockey season winds down, one of the great rituals is the release of the annual Ontario Hockey League Coaches Poll. The mechanics are pretty simple: the league’s coaches are asked to rank players based on different attributes and the league tabulates the results, split by conference.
It wasn’t long ago that the Calgary Flames had very few defensive prospects worth mentioning. Before selecting Étienne Morin and Axel Hurtig in the 2023 NHL Draft, the Flames had picked a total of six defenders in the previous five draft years.
When the Calgary Flames announced the signing of defender Hunter Brzustewicz to an entry level deal on Thursdays, one number popped out: $950,000, the average annual value of his deal.
He was a major focus of the January trade that sent Elias Lindholm to the Vancouver Canucks, serving as the top prospect in a deal that also contained a first-round pick and NHL winger Andrei Kuzmenko, among other pieces.
The Calgary Flames have signed defensive prospect Hunter Brzustewicz to a three-year, entry-level contract. with an average annual value (AAV) of $950,000.
The Calgary Flames have signed one of their most alluring prospects. The club announced Thursday morning that they’ve signed defenceman Hunter Brzustewicz to a three year, entry-level contract with a $950,000 cap hit.
The Calgary Flames have added a lot of new faces to their organization since the beginning of the 2023-24 season. Most recently, they added two American Hockey League level prospects via a pair of trades, as the club acquired Riley Damiani and Artem Grushnikov in a pair of trades with the Dallas Stars.
Since he took the job last May, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy has been grinding. He’s been working on resolving the situations of seven pending 2024 unrestricted free agents.
Folks, we’re obviously all a bit caught up in the 2024 trade deadline pandemonium. But once March 1 hit the calendar, another important period began: the opening of the window for teams to sign players to entry-level deals that begin next season.
Back in May 2023, when Craig Conroy was named the Calgary Flames’ new general manager, he pledged to focus on asset management when it came to the club’s seven pending 2024 unrestricted free agents.
With less than a month until the National Hockey League trade deadline, rumours are starting to pick up. As per usual, there are plenty of rumours surrounding the Calgary Flames.
The Calgary Flames made a trade this past week. Elias Lindholm is now a Vancouver Canuck. And the Flames have a couple new defencemen in their prospect pool.
The Calgary Flames acquired RD Hunter Brzustewicz from the Vancouver Canucks in a blockbuster trade involving pending UFA Elias Lindholm on Wednesday.
Here in Canucks Nation, we find ourselves navigating uncharted waters. In recent memory, this time of year has been dedicated to discussions about whom the Vancouver Canucks might trade to provide salary cap relief.
One of the extraordinary things about following hockey prospects closely is getting the chance to follow a player’s career through its most important stages.
The calendar has officially turned its page into January, marking the beginning of the New Year. One thing that continues to look quite familiar to the year 2023, however, is Hunter Brzustewicz putting up points.
We are just weeks away from the highly-anticipated World Junior Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. Each year, this tournament brings the world’s top U20 competition to the centre stage as they compete for the coveted Gold Medal.
It’s a rare occurrence to come across something that appreciates in value the moment you step out the door. Yet, the Vancouver Canucks may be living proof that it can happen, as Hunter Brzustewicz is punching well above his third-round price tag.
Welcome to PHR’s Big Hype Prospects series. Like the MLB Trade Rumors series of the same name, we’re taking a look at the performances of top prospects from across the hockey world.
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