Back in September, the Calgary Flames sent prospect Parker Bell back to the junior, as he rejoined the Western Hockey League’s Tri-City Americans for his overage season – despite being on the first season of his entry-level deal.
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.
The National Hockey League’s trade deadline is pure, unbridled chaos, friends. But the looming trade deadlines in Canada’s three major junior leagues are arguably even wilder.
The Calgary Flames entered the 2023-24 season with a pair of 20-year-old prospects under big-league contracts and some choices to make regarding what to do with them.
The Calgary Flames have made a roster move to help their American Hockey League affiliate, the Calgary Wranglers, get their roster down to a manageable number prior to the start of their season.
The Calgary Flames began the main portion of training camp on Thursday, and commemorated the occasion with the signing of Parker Bell. A fifth-round pick in 2022, Bell was the latest in a string of drafted prospects signing with the Flames (and the first signing from the 2022 class).
As the Calgary Flames hit the ice for their first day of training camp, they’ve announced a signing. Forward Parker Bell, a fifth-round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, has signed a three-year entry-level deal.
In the grand scheme of things, the 2023 Young Stars Classic probably won’t be the be-all, end-all of anybody’s hockey career. At worst, we’ll see the Calgary Flames play three games against prospects from the Winnipeg Jets, Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers and life will go on as it always has.
There’s a running joke in hockey circles that you can’t teach size. All things being equal, teams often skew towards larger players in part due to the physical rigours of the game of hockey.
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