It’s the final week before the Christmas break for most National Hockey League clubs. The Calgary Flames, by virtue of their unfortunate COVID-19 surge, are already in their break.
As we wait for Santa to arrive, let’s dive into the mailbag!
How do Flames deal with the next off-season? Who do they move if they have to?
— Moltenjaguar352 (@moltenjaguar352) December 20, 2021
We’ve dug into the nitty gritty earlier on the site, but the long and the short of it is this: the Flames will want to keep their Big Four free agents – Oliver Kylington, Andrew Mangiapane, Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk – and do to that will probably cost between $27 and $28 million per season.