{"id":400208,"date":"2026-01-10T20:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/400208\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:58:16","slug":"flames-rumors-nazem-kadri-open-to-a-trade-to-stanley-cup-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/400208\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames rumors: Nazem Kadri open to a trade to Stanley Cup contender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flames rumors: Nazem Kadri open to a trade to Stanley Cup contender<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Calgary Flames<\/a> forward Nazem Kadri has seen his name swirling in trade rumors<\/a> for over a calendar year, but the veteran remains with the team he signed a $49 million contract with shortly after winning the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2021-22.<\/p>\n

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But with the Flames losers of four straight and falling out of contention<\/a> in the Western Conference, TSN\u2019s Darren Dreger believes Kadri could be open to a change of scenery<\/a> \u2014 specifically to a contender \u2014 ahead of the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would describe [a Kadri trade] as a possibility,\u201d Dreger said on Friday\u2019s episode of Insider Trading. \u201cThe calendar has flipped, we\u2019re into the second half of the NHL regular season, you\u2019ve got another roster freeze that is looming with the Olympic break, and then you\u2019ve got the March 6 NHL Trade Deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hockey insider continued: \u201cMy sense with Nazem Kadri is this: if an opportunity was presented to go to a top contender in the NHL, then he would be willing to listen to that. The man is 35-years-old and he wants to win a Stanley Cup. He\u2019s not going to push it, and we know that the Calgary Flames have other pieces that are drawing more of the attention from Craig Conroy\u2019s perspective, but the intensity around Kadri is definitely heating up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Kadri has four years left on a contract that pays him $7 million annually, his full no-movement clause became a 13-team no-trade list this season. That means Calgary\u2019s brass could trade him to 18 teams without his approval.<\/p>\n

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Nazem Kadri has been a difference-maker for Flames<\/p>\n

Although best suited as a 2C on a legitimate Stanley Cup contender, Kadri has been the Flames\u2019 top pivot since coming to Alberta \u2014 and he\u2019s been one of the team\u2019s top performers. Since the start of the 2023-24 campaign, he\u2019s managed 72 goals and 174 points over 208 games while averaging over 19 minutes of ice per contest.<\/p>\n

If Conroy and the front office were to make him available, they would likely get a haul \u2014 especially as there is a significant demand around the NHL for proven second-line centers.<\/p>\n

That being said, there is no rush to move on from the veteran, as he\u2019s signed through the 2028-29 NHL season. If management doesn\u2019t get a good enough offer before March 6, they could wait until the summer or next year without his price tag diminishing.<\/p>\n

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Now 18-22-4 and second last in the Pacific Division, the Flames are a full seven points back of the final wildcard berth in the West. The longer the slump continues, probably the more likely the front office would be open to trading the franchise\u2019s best forward.<\/p>\n

Calgary is next in action against the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Related: NHL rumors: The Flames player \u2018of interest\u2019 to Canadiens ahead of trade deadline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flames rumors: Nazem Kadri open to a trade to Stanley Cup contender appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,144,829,896,5,2054,4,100,14,9138,6045,2071],"class_list":{"0":"post-400208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-darren-dreger","13":"tag-flames","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nazem-kadri","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","18":"tag-stanley-cup","19":"tag-top-contender","20":"tag-trade-deadline","21":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115872812606547241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}