CALGARY \u2014 Calgary Flames winger Jonathan Huberdeau wants to start skating again by the end of June and intends to be ready for September training camp after hip resurfacing surgery.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old forward shut down his season in February before the Olympic break to address hip pain that flared last summer. Huberdeau had the procedure in March.<\/p>\n
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“The rehab has been going well,” Huberdeau said Friday when the Flames gave their season-ending exit interviews.<\/p>\n
“It’s been six weeks, so I think I’m just looking forward to getting back on the ice.”<\/p>\n
A 115-point man with the Florida Panthers in 2022, Huberdeau had his best season as a Flame in 2024-25 with 28 goals and 34 assists to rank second on the team behind Nazem Kadri. Calgary missed the playoffs by a tiebreaker point.<\/p>\n
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But both Huberdeau and the Flames laboured this season. Huberdeau had 10 goals and 15 assists in 50 games before opting for a season-ending procedure.<\/p>\n
“Last summer I kind of started feeling it more,” Huberdeau explained. “When I came into the season, it wasn’t too great. Tried to fix it, getting some injections and stuff, and it didn’t work out.<\/p>\n
“I wasn’t 100 per cent playing on it, but I could still play. I finally decided to get it done this year. I’m kind of happy I did it. That was the main reason I kind of wanted to do it earlier, so I could be fully back next year.”<\/p>\n
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The Flames acquired Huberdeau, considered one of the best passers in the league, from the Panthers in a blockbuster summer of 2022 trade.<\/p>\n
The six-foot-one, 200-pound winger from Saint-Jerome, Que., signed an eight-year, US$84-million contract extension that runs to 2030-31.<\/p>\n
After his first season in Calgary, Huberdeau said he’d lost his swagger. He began adapting and took pride in becoming more of a two-way player.<\/p>\n
But the Flames missed the production of a healthy Huberdeau this season. Calgary scored a league-low 212 goals, and the power play ranked second-last in the league.<\/p>\n
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Huberdeau has yet to see the playoffs in four seasons as a Flame.<\/p>\n
“We have to finish more,” he stated. “It’s hard to make the playoffs when you don’t have a guy over 50 points.<\/p>\n
“Offence has to come. There’s a lot of talent in this group. Guys can get like 70, 80 points no problem. It’s just to find it together, find the chemistry on the ice.”<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 17, 2026.<\/p>\n
Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 Calgary Flames winger Jonathan Huberdeau wants to start skating again by the end of June and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,57,62708,5,7621,2054,4,3318],"class_list":{"0":"post-554731","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-florida-panthers","13":"tag-hip-resurfacing-surgery","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-jonathan-huberdeau","16":"tag-nazem-kadri","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-the-flames"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116421643767176296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554731","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=554731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}