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While the Calgary Flames may additionally have misplaced two superstars this offseason, they at least bought one in return, and they spent ultimate night time locking up to a long-term deal. With Jonathan Huberdeau now set to be in a Flames uniform for the subsequent 9 seasons, many eyes are glancing toward the pending UFA repute of the different huge piece of the Matthew Tkachuk trade: defenseman MacKenzie Weegar.

TSN Calgary’s Salim Nadim Valji reviews that sources inform him Weegar has “a strong, real desire” to continue to be in Calgary and that he and the Flames will have interaction subsequent week about an extension for the 28-year-old defenseman.

After a pair of seasons in which Weegar acquired Norris votes, his inventory is at an all-time high. There’s proper purpose for that, though. A dominant two-way defender, Weegar had emerged as the most underrated necessary phase of the Panthers group that’s been on a meteoric upward jab the previous few seasons. Now bringing his skills to Calgary, he provides to one of the nice protection cores in the Western Conference, at least for subsequent season.

But searching at Calgary’s future, it doesn’t appear like it’ll be too difficult to get an extension performed with Weegar. The two albatross contracts weighing down Calgary’s revenue cap photograph for the upcoming season, Milan Lucic and Sean Monahan, each expire at the quit of 2022-23. With extra than $11MM coming off the books in the shape of these two deals, the Flames will have upwards of $15MM in area to work with subsequent offseason, per CapFriendly, with few different large contracts to sign.

It’s the 2024 offseason the place matters get tricky. The majority of their core, along with Elias Lindholm, Mikael Backlund, Tyler Toffoli, Noah Hanifin, Chris Tanev, and Oliver Kylington all hit the UFA market then, and with the income cap solely predicted to enlarge a in addition $1MM to $84.5MM, matters would possibly get problematic with a stable few of these gamers at least due extensive raises.

In the instantaneous future, though, a long-term extension for Weegar shouldn’t pose any issues for the Flames.