{"id":440617,"date":"2026-02-01T23:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/440617\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:40:33","slug":"flames-justin-kirkland-placed-on-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/440617\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames&#8217; Justin Kirkland: Placed on waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769789001_282_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/CGY\/calgary-flames\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/375.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/2146560\/kirkland\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirkland<\/a> was placed on waivers by the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/CGY\/calgary-flames\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flames<\/a>, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet reports Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkland has appeared in 20 games this season, posting one goal and one assist in those contests. However, he was a scratch Saturday night and now the 29-year-old is hitting waivers Sunday. If he clears, he&#8217;s likely to report to AHL Calgary, where he has seven points (five goals, two assists) in 14 games.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirkland was placed on waivers by the Flames, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet reports Sunday. Kirkland has appeared in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,276,896,5,13654,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-440617","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-fantasy-hockey","12":"tag-flames","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-justin-kirkland","15":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115998021149416321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440617","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=440617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}