Matthew Tkachuk

Matthew Tkachuk wanted out of Calgary and the Flames granted this request by trading him to the Florida Panthers, per the Athletic.

Cole Schwindt is a right wing that is coming off a rookie season that saw him suit up for three games for the Panthers. The Flames sent out a proven talent and were able to get back a mix of veterans and youth assets that should make this one an profitable trade for both sides. He played in 80 games and scored eight goals with 36 assists a year ago. He added 230 assists for 382 career points and averaged 17:16 on the ice per game.

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Without Tkachuk and Gaudreau, the Flames would have still iced a strong lineup. Both Huberdeau and Weegar, like Gaudreau was this season, are pending unrestricted free agents. While Calgary was never going to replicate him in a deal, they have at least come close to replacing him by adding another legitimate star in Huberdeau (who was fifth in Hart Trophy voting last season), a stay-at-home blueliner with an underrated offensive skillset in Weegar, plus two future assets.

In return, the Flames received All-Star winger Jonathan Huberdeau, defenseman MacKenzie Weegar, prospect Cole Schwindt, a lottery-protected 2025 first-round ...

He has been a consistent scorer over his six-year career but took a significant leap forward during the 2021-22 season. Weegar has improved his point total in each of his six NHL seasons, too. However, The Athletic's Jeremy Rutherford and Hailey Salvian reported Wednesday that Tkachuk informed the team he didn't intend to sign a new deal with the club.

Matthew Tkachuk is a restricted free agent and turned down a reported eight-year, $11 million offer to stay in Calgary. He will be missed.

Maybe if they got a new arena, that may help? Tkachuk immediately got signed to an eight-year $76 million contract. The Flames will get Florida’s lottery protected first round pick from 2025. When Tkachuk notified the Flames that he didn’t intend to sign a long-term contract to stay in Calgary, the trade option was the only way for the team to get something in return for him. Tkachuk tallied 42 goals, 62 assists while playing in all 82 games for the 2021-22 season. It seemed inevitable that when Johnny Gaudreau left via free agency to the Columbus Blue Jackets that the possibility of Matthew Tkachuk following suit could occur.

Zito has made a blockbuster move that not only surprised the hockey world but is sure to divide the Florida Panthers fan base.

Might have to wait a season for Yandle’s contract to come off the books and/or continue trying to orchestrate a Bob deal - though I like him a lot, that deal is such a killer… He has a good frame, is physical and possesses all of the intangibles needed to be a NHL level player, despite some concerns about his skating.” This might be the portion of the deal that angers most Cats fans. I’m a fan and hope he finds his game, but after stepping up and becoming what I thought was going to be an anchor on the blueline a couple seasons back, he can just as quickly take a step back. I think a lot of it is mental with him and in an effort to make up for it, he made a lot of blunders this past season - despite hitting career highs (which was a strange paradox). He will also be looking for a sizable deal after the upcoming season Not to mention he’s getting older and he will be looking for a monster contract after next season.

Now that Matthew Tkachuk has finally landed at his new home, can we all move on from this fairytale that the Nashville Predators were going to acquire him?

Can Tkachuk give them that extra punch to actually push for a Stanley Cup? I’m not convinced, especially with the cost of losing Huberdeau. It was likely that a Philip Tomasino was going to be lost, but when you see Huberdeau being offered, the Predators were probably far away from having enough assets for Calgary to consider. When it comes to the Nashville Predators, their offseason is still going very well after their most recent acquisition of Nino Niederreiter, who will undoubtedly offer a huge boost to their depth scoring and leadership in the top-six.

Florida also sent defenseman MacKenzie Weegar, prospect Cole Schwindt and a lottery-protected first-round selection in the 2025 NHL draft to Calgary.

Tkachuk is 24, Huberdeau is 29, and that surely was something that went into Florida’s thinking when deciding about making an eight-year commitment. The trade means Calgary is without its two leading scorers from this past season. But it never translated into the type of playoff success that Florida is seeking. They gave up a package headlined by Huberdeau, Florida’s career leader in games, assists and points, to make it happen. Florida also sent defenseman MacKenzie Weegar, prospect Cole Schwindt and a lottery-protected first-round selection in the 2025 NHL draft. “Matthew is a tenacious, physical competitor who possesses a tremendously unique skillset,” Panthers general manager Bill Zito said.

It is Saturday morning so let's go over that Matthew Tkachuk to Florida sign and trade from late last night.

Calgary stops the bleeding but needs depth much like Florida now. Expect Zito to try and sure up the defense modestly. As for the two general managers in question, both have options after the rearranging of their teams. The worst case scenario is that Treliving does some more flipping for more players and prospects come the 2022-23 trade deadline. It is a hell of a gamble for Calgary. Can they convince Huberdeau and Weegar to stay? It does not quite rival the Toronto Maple Leafs but there is some serious top-heaviness.

It seems like the hits just keep coming for the Calgary Flames this off season and now for the second time in two weeks, the team has lost a 40-goal scorer.

The downfall for the Panthers here will be the future pipeline. As mentioned above, they don’t have a 1st round pick to play with until 2026. On Tkachuk’s end of it, maybe he saw that the Flames weren’t going to be as competitive in the next few years and decided that he was going to try and get moved to a contending team.

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The Islanders did not appear to have the assets to complete a trade for Tkachuk and it was confirmed last night. One of the potential destinations for Tkachuk included the St. Louis Blues, where Tkachuk had grown up. He is a consistent elite offensive contributor and has emerged as one of the most complete and dynamic young players in the National Hockey League. We are thrilled to be able to add a generational talent to our lineup."

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Scroll through to see what we came up with and feel free to drop a thought or two of your own in the comments. On Friday morning, he was a disgruntled player poised to enter the final year of his contract amid huge uncertainty. The Panthers topped off Friday's blockbuster by signing their newly acquired asset to an eight-year contract extension worth $9.5 million annually through 2029-30. So unless Tkachuk's arrival brings a championship sooner than later, it's going to seem like asset management is the big loser in the long run. The Panthers won eight more games and finished 11 points ahead of Calgary in the league standings, and when you combine that with all the other bells and whistles being a professional athlete in south Florida has to offer, Tkachuk unquestionably traded up. The B/R hockey team answered the late-night call and got together to discuss the trade in order to compile a definitive set of winners and losers.

The Calgary Flames and Florida Panthers announced a massive trade late Friday night.

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If Tkachuk was determined to end up with the Blues, he could have played out one season without an extension and hit free agency to see if the Blues were waiting for him with a big check. While it’s completely fair to question Blues general manager Doug Armstrong for not managing salary cap space in a way that allowed a new deal for now-departed free agent forward David Perron, it feels disingenuous to hammer him for not outlasting the Panthers in a trade race that have some in the hockey world wondering if Florida overpaid. No one should blame him for taking the money in Florida. But I won't blame the Blues for not blowing up their team to beat the Panthers' package. And that's without getting too far down the cap-math road of figuring out who would have had to go to make room for the Tkachuk extension. The Blues believe some of the players who helped them win it all in 2019 can make some more magic before a big overhaul. This would not have been a team-building trade for the Blues. It would have been a team-altering trade. Jordan Kyrou, who many assumed could be a centerpiece of a potential Blues deal for Tkachuk, totaled 75 points last season. It makes me wonder what a Blues trade package that matched Florida's would have looked like. Both Huberdeau and Weegar could be free agents after the season. Huberdeau was the No. 3 draft pick in 2011. Tkachuk is that good, and the team on his preferred list of landing spots was going to get the best and first chance at locking up the 24-year-old phenom long-term. The $9.5 million average annual value should not be a shocker.

The Panthers got the better player, but the Flames may have won the deal, by a significant margin.

Nashville — Signing Nino Niederreiter, especially for two years and $8 million (the same contract the Bruins gave Jake DeBrusk) was a strong play. He signed a deal for $11 million a year that October, the richest in NHL history at the time. David Quinn, rumored to be hired by the Sharks, became the sixth when the Rangers hired him in May 2018, a few weeks after the Stars tapped Montgomery. The other four who matriculated: NCAA legend Ned Harkness, who left Cornell for the Red Wings in 1970, and was not well received; Herb Brooks, who coached in Switzerland for a year before taking the Rangers job in 1981. Still waiting for a Hampus Lindholm replacement, and the defense needs bodies. The power play could be top five in the league if Gaudreau is dishing to Patrik Laine, who reupped for four years at $8.7 million per. It was painful for Flames fans, who watched their team develop into a legitimate Stanley Cup contender and now wondered how they’d stay relevant in the Western Conference. How about a star-for-star trade? Credit the Flames for also snatching Weegar in the deal. Now with three of the game’s richest deals on their books (Barkov, Tkachuk, and $10 million goalie Sergei Bobrovsky), the Panthers are as win-now as their rivals across Alligator Alley. The Panthers’ next first-round pick is in 2026. Losing the Battle of Alberta was a kick to the teeth. Let’s see some Tkachuk on yachts in Miami, on rooftops in Fort Lauderdale, heck, on riverboats in the Everglades. It’s a great place to spend your 20s. This was as stunning a deal as we’ve seen since the Shea Weber-for-P.K. Subban swap in 2016. Seeing Johnny Gaudreau walk was a kick to the gut.

No team in NHL history had ever lost two 100-point scorers in the same offseason. This summer, Calgary watched one (Johnny Gaudreau) leave in free agency while ...

The Tkachuk trade has to pay long-term dividends for Calgary in order for it to be seen as a win. In any case, there’s going to be a ton of pressure on both Tkachuk and Florida this season and moving forward. The Panthers are getting a very good player in his prime years and now have a bit more cost certainty heading into the future. If that’s the case, it’ll be fascinating to see where Tkachuk settles in production-wise. Not only can you make the case that Calgary got very good value for Tkachuk, but there’s also a pretty good case to be made that the Flames are immediately a better team. But you also don’t want to risk letting Huberdeau and Weegar walk in the offseason for nothing, especially Huberdeau. If Huberdeau and Weegar are still pending unrestricted free agents, will the Flames be willing to ship them out and let their playoff hopes take a hit for the sake of asset management? Of course, that can be viewed as a negative (we’ll get to that soon), but it also gives Calgary a pretty good parachute if things don’t pan out for some reason this season. If Huberdeau signs, they have a very palatable return for a guy who already had one foot out the door. But for the time being, let’s assume the Flames at least want to keep Huberdeau around for the long term. Usually when teams are in this spot, they just have to swallow a bitter pill and get as much as they can in a deal that they’re destined to lose. After Matthew Tkachuk told the Calgary Flames he would not sign a long-term contract with the club, a trade became inevitable — one that would likely push the Flames into rebuilding mode.

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“I will always remember my time in Calgary as the most important and best years in my life to date,” he said. I signed my last contract for the sole reason of (options). I could have taken a longer deal and more money, but I wanted to re-evaluate after a three-year bridge deal, and that’s what I did.” “I’m leaving as a 24-year-old, young man and I went in as an 18-year-old kid. ... The sun, the beach and all that stuff – don’t get me wrong, that’s really, unbelievably attractive, but the chance to win trumps it all.” “I think Tre respected me for talking to him right away about it,” said Tkachuk, who indeed drew praise from the GM earlier in the day. Well, in Calgary, not the people up north. ... We worked through it and I think we’re both happy with how the results came.” “I feel like I did it the right way. “We worked together and it was really seamless. ... I’m sad I’m leaving so many great people in the city and the organization. It was a very real conversation. At the end of the day, I wanted to re-evaluate where I’m at, and after talking to a few teams I did that, and kind of came down to that conclusion.

The Florida Panthers completed a blockbuster trade with the Calgary Flames to acquire Matthew Tkachuk. So who won the deal?

They are also getting a center prospect in Schwindt, and a conditional first-rounder in 2025, which also sweetens the deal. Now, they have made the move to bring in the 24-year-old Tkachuk who is coming off of a career-year. At the trade deadline this past season, they brought in former Philadelphia Flyers captain Claude Giroux to have on the team for the remainder of the season. This is a team who was unsuccessful in keeping star forward Johnny Gaudreau on a lucrative contract extension, as he desired to be closer to his family. Credit to the Panthers for making a huge splash move. Winger Matthew Tkachuk informed the Flames earlier this week that he was not looking to re-sign with the team.