{"id":612883,"date":"2026-07-02T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/612883\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:06:11","slug":"calgary-flames-trading-blake-coleman-olli-maatta-to-minnesota-wild-for-jake-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/612883\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames trading Blake Coleman, Olli Maatta to Minnesota Wild for Jake Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Calgary Flames<\/a> are trading forward Blake Coleman<\/a> and defenceman Olli Maatta<\/a> to the Minnesota Wild<\/a> for defenceman Jake Middleton<\/a> and three draft picks.<\/p>\n

According to Michael Russo of The Athletic, the Flames will retain 50 per cent of Coleman\u2019s $4.9 million cap hit on his contract that is set to expire next summer. He adds the Flames also receive a 2029 second-round pick, 2027 third and 2028 fourth-round pick back in the trade.<\/p>\n

Coleman, 34, had 20 goals and 35 points in 69 games with the Flames last season.<\/p>\n

The 5-foot-11 winger is entering the final season of a six-year, $29.4 million contract.<\/p>\n

Drafted 75th overall by the New Jersey Devils<\/a> in 2011, Coleman has 170 goals and 325 points in 693 career games split between the Devils, Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>, and Flames.<\/p>\n

Coleman helped the Lightning to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2020 and 2021, recording a combined eight goals and 24 points in 28 playoff games.<\/p>\n

The Plano, Texas native represented the United States at 2018 World Hockey Championship, taking home a bronze medal.<\/p>\n

Middleton, 30, registered two goals and 16 points in 75 games while averaging 17:30 of ice time. He added an assist in 11 playoff games while averaging 16:31 of ice time before his team was eliminated in the second round.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-3, left-shot blueliner is entering the second season of a four-year, $17.4 million contract that carries an annual cap hit of $4.35 million. He is scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the 2028-29 campaign.<\/p>\n

Drafted 210th overall by the Los Angeles Kings<\/a> in 2014, Middleton played his entire NHL career in Minnesota, recording 24 goals and 94 points in 381 career games.<\/p>\n

The Wainwright, Alta., native represented Canada at the 2023 World Hockey Championship to take home a gold medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Flames are trading forward Blake Coleman and defenceman Olli Maatta to the Minnesota Wild for defenceman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,33957,32473,5,67673,33170,4],"class_list":["post-612883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-blake-coleman-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476399","tag-calgary-flames-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-20","tag-hockey","tag-jake-middleton-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478136","tag-minnesota-wild-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-30","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116851244002484964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612883","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=612883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}