{"id":542611,"date":"2026-04-05T19:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542611\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:59:28","slug":"all-of-a-sudden-morgan-frost-leads-the-flames-in-goals-and-points-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542611\/","title":{"rendered":"All of a sudden, Morgan Frost leads the Flames in goals and points this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two seasons, the Calgary Flames\u2019 offensive leaderboard has been regularly led by one man: Nazem Kadri.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing third \u2013 behind Tyler Toffoli and Elias Lindholm \u2013 in goals and points in 2022-23, Kadri led the team outright in points in 2023-24 and 2024-25. (He was third in goals in 2023-24 but led in goals, too, in 2024-25.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, following the NHL\u2019s trade deadline last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/publish.flamesnation.ca\/2026\/03\/06\/flames-trade-forward-nazem-kadri-to-colorado-avalanche\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kadri is back with the Colorado Avalanche<\/a>. And so the question emerged: who was going to carve out a spot as the Flames\u2019 new offensive leader?<\/p>\n<p>So far the answer has been both \u201ca bunch of guys\u201d but also \u201cMorgan Frost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frost took over the goal-scoring lead, and entered a multi-way tie for the club\u2019s points lead, in Saturday night\u2019s 5-3 Flames win over the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>Frost leads the team with 21 goals, ahead of Blake Coleman (19), Joel Farabee (18), Matt Coronato (17) and Mikael Backlund (16). It\u2019s the first time in Frost\u2019s NHL career that he\u2019s hit the 20 goal plateau; he topped out at 19 goals with Philadelphia in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>Since Kadri\u2019s depature, Frost has gotten regular first line minutes alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/publish.flamesnation.ca\/2026\/02\/11\/matvei-gridin-gives-highlight-reel-performance-at-ahl-all-star-skills-competition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matvei Gridin<\/a> and usually either Coronato or Farabee. He\u2019s taken advantage of the opportunity, scoring eight goals in 15 games, leading the Flames. Yeah, several Flames have scored goals in bunches lately, but Frost has been the best of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Frost is tied for the team lead in points 41 with, tied with Kadri and Backlund. He\u2019s ahead of Coronato (40) and Farabee (36), who round out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Since the trade deadline, Frost has 12 points in 15 games, leading the Flames.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publish.flamesnation.ca\/2025\/01\/30\/calgary-flames-trade-kuzmenko-pelletier-flyers-frost-farabee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">When the Flames acquired Frost and Farabee from the Flyers last January<\/a>, the big question for each of them was \u201cWhat are they?\u201d This season, from nearly the first puck drop, Farabee found a clear identity to his game and he\u2019s become a really useful player for the hockey club. Frost\u2019s \u201caha!\u201d moment was more delayed, and seemingly came after Kadri\u2019s return to Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Frost is a really smart, fast, dynamic offensive hockey player. He\u2019s shown flashes of brilliance in his career, and the last month has arguably been the most sustained stretch of high-level play he\u2019s had as a Flame. If he can make this the new normal, he could be a Flame, and an important one, for a long, long time.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames continue their road trip on Tuesday night in Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the past two seasons, the Calgary Flames\u2019 offensive leaderboard has been regularly led by one man: Nazem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-542611","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-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116353877119734314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542611","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=542611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}