{"id":415182,"date":"2026-01-19T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/415182\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:27:10","slug":"flames-trade-defenceman-andersson-to-golden-knights-for-whitecloud-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/415182\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames trade defenceman Andersson to Golden Knights for Whitecloud, draft picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Calgary Flames defenceman Rasmus Andersson celebrates a goal against the Sabres last year.Jeffrey T. Barnes\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

The Calgary Flames have traded veteran defenceman Rasmus Andersson to the Vegas Golden Knights for defenceman Zach Whitecloud, defensive prospect Abram Wiebe, a first-round draft pick in 2027 and a conditional second-round pick in 2028 that becomes a first-rounder should Vegas win the Stanley Cup this year.<\/p>\n

The Flames announced the deal Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Andersson from Malmo, Sweden, has spent his entire NHL career with the Flames, who drafted him 53rd overall in 2015.<\/p>\n

Andersson is in the final year of a six-year contract with an average annual value of US$4.55 million.<\/p>\n

He has 30 points (10 goals, 20 assists) and was plus-3 in 48 games this season, while averaging a team-leading 24 minutes 14 seconds of ice time per game.<\/p>\n

Calgary (21-23-4) was five points out of a Western Conference wild-card playoff spot Sunday.<\/p>\n

Whitecloud won a Stanley Cup with the Golden Knights in 2023 when he played all 22 post-season games and contributed two goals and six assists.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old from Brandon, Man., has spent his entire NHL career with Vegas and amassed 23 goals and 55 assists in 368 games. <\/p>\n

Whitecloud is in the fourth season of a six-year contract with an annual average value of US$2.75 million.<\/p>\n

The six-foot-two, 210-pound defenceman played recent games on the Knights\u2019 top pairing with Noah Hanifin. <\/p>\n

Whitecloud has two goals and five assists in 47 games, while averaging 18 minutes 46 seconds per game this season<\/p>\n

Andersson was a consistent top-four defenceman throughout his career as a Flame. He had 261 points (57-204) over 584 career regular-season games.<\/p>\n

The six-foot-one 202-pound defenceman was named to Sweden\u2019s roster for the Milan Cortina Olympics next month. He played three games in the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament last February. <\/p>\n

Wiebe, from Mission, B.C., is in his third season at the University of North Dakota. <\/p>\n

The seventh-round pick by Vegas in 2022 has three goals and 11 assists in 24 games this season. He\u2019s six-foot-three and 203 pounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Calgary Flames defenceman Rasmus Andersson celebrates a goal against the Sabres last year.Jeffrey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[1018,1001,1019,967,991,1020,895,26,5294,19,990,1008,1009,1004,992,989,1014,1016,1013,1007,896,1000,1030,993,994,1006,5,1002,1003,997,1021,998,1025,1026,4,1028,1023,1027,786,1024,995,1011,1012,333,1010,1022,86,1015,1017,1005,999,996,1029],"class_list":["post-415182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary-flames","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-flames","tag-calgaryflames","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-flames","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-hockey","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-nhl","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415182","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=415182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}