One prominent insider doesn’t believe the Calgary Flames are ready to entertain trade offers for Nazem Kadri.

In fact, TSN’s Darren Dreger reported that majority team owner Murray Edwards prefers to keep Kadri around.

The 35-year-old centre was celebrated Wednesday with a silver stick ceremony, becoming just the 407th player in NHL history to skate in 1,000 career games.

While Kadri and his family have been focused on this major milestone, there’s been speculation that his days in Calgary could ultimately be numbered, with many suggesting the Flames should try to fast-track their youth movement by shopping their leading scorer to could-be contenders.

While Kadri & Co. have won two in a row, they currently remain in last place in the overall standings at 4-9-2, needing to dig out of an early hole to avoid missing the playoffs for a fourth straight season.

“I think it’s important to note that Nazem Kadri loves Calgary. He wants to win in Calgary,” Dreger said Thursday on a segment of TSN’s Insider Trading. “So this is more a supply-and-demand issue. It has been well-documented the teams out there across the National Hockey League that are looking for a No. 2 centre, and that is essentially what Nazem Kadri is at this stage of his NHL career.

“But I also know that Murray Edwards, the owner of the Calgary Flames, is telling people that he has no interest in trading Nazem Kadri. In fact, he doesn’t want to trade Nazem Kadri. He loves the core of this team.

“There’s a lot of hockey ahead, a lot of hockey left in this regular season for the Flames, but it doesn’t sound like Flames ownership has any intention of trading away their veteran forward.”

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Kadri has notched four goals and seven assists in 15 outings so far this season.

He is signed through the end of the 2028-29 campaign at an annual cap hit of US$7 million and has a partial no-trade clause in his contract that allows him to list 13 no-gos.

Another ace insider, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet, has previously reported that potential suitors have been trying to find out if they’re among his approved destinations.

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