{"id":556500,"date":"2026-04-20T03:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:15:34","slug":"flames-news-jonathan-huberdeau-provides-positive-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556500\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames news: Jonathan Huberdeau provides positive injury update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Calgary Flames endured another tough 2025-26 campaign<\/a> as the rebuild continues, and things only got more difficult after top forward Jonathan Huberdeau suffered a season-ending in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the bright side, the veteran forward expects to be fully healthy<\/a> for training camp this fall after undergoing hip surgery, as he told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was probably one of the main reasons I kind of wanted to do it earlier, so I could be fully back next year,\u201d Huberdeau said, per NHL.com. \u201cI feel pretty good. It\u2019s been six weeks, so I think I\u2019m just looking forward to getting back on the ice. It\u2019s been going pretty well right now, so hopefully it keeps keep going like that and I can be back on the ice in late June.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huberdeau missed Calgary’s final 26 games of the regular-season; they finished 34-39-9 and 30th place in overall National Hockey League standings. The 32-year-old hasn’t been the same player after getting acquired from the Florida Panthers in the trade that sent Matthew Tkachuk to Sunrise.<\/p>\n

While Tkachuk helped the Panthers win back-to-back Stanley Cups \u2014 and advance to the Finals three straight times between 2023-25 \u2014 Huberdeau’s production has taken a huge hit since the trade.<\/p>\n

Following a career-best 30-goal, 115-point campaign with Florida in 2021-22, he managed just 55 points in 2022-23, 52 points in 2023-24 and 62 points in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

He only ended up suiting up for 50 contests this season, finishing with 10 goals and 25 points. Still, he figures to be a key piece of Calgary’s attack for the foreseeable future, as his contract runs through 2030-31 at a $10.5 million cap hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just so thrilled that he\u2019s finally feeling good,\u201d Flames head coach Ryan Huska said, per NHL.com. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long time for this guy that he\u2019s been battling through this. My hope is that he\u2019s going to continue his rehab and he\u2019s going to feel great over the course of the summer and he\u2019s going to come back and he\u2019s going to be awesome and that\u2019s what I\u2019m really pulling for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Flames haven’t made the playoffs since the 2021-22 campaign, but will be hoping to at least take a step forward next season.<\/p>\n

The Calgary Flames endured another tough 2025-26 campaign as the rebuild continues, and things only got more difficult after top forward Jonathan Huberdeau suffered a season-ending in March. On the bright side, the veteran forward expects to be fully healthy for training camp this fall after undergoing hip surgery, as he told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames endured another tough 2025-26 campaign as the rebuild continues, and things only got more difficult…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-556500","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\/116434863653131059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556500","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=556500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}