The Calgary Flames are adding two intriguing young forwards in a blockbuster trade with the Philadelphia Flyers.
The Flames have acquired Joel Farabee and Morgan Frost in the trade, the team announced after a win over the Ducks. Forwards Andrei Kuzmenko and Jakob Pelletier will head to Philadelphia in return. The Flyers will also get a second and seventh-round pick as part of the deal.
Farabee and Frost are both former first-round picks who have slipped in production this season. Farabee, who turns 25 in February, set career-highs in goals (22) and points (50) in 82 games last season but this year has just eight goals and 19 points in 50 games. Frost, 25, has 11 goals and 25 points in 49 games this season. His career-best year came two seasons ago when he had 19 goals and 46 points.
Farabee is in the third season of a six-year, $30 million contract, according to PuckPedia. Frost is in the final season of a two-year, $4.2-million contract. He will be a restricted free agent this summer and is eligible to test unrestricted free agency as early as 2026.
The Flyers lost to the Islanders 3-0 on Thursday and Frost left the game early. Flyers head coach John Tortorella said post-game that Frost “didn’t feel good” but his status beyond that is unclear.
Kuzmenko was scratched for the Flames’ game against the Ducks on Thursday and Pelletier was pulled from the game in the first intermission. The Flames initially acquired Kuzmenko in the Elias Lindholm trade with the Canucks last season but he has struggled to produce so far this year with just four goals and 15 points in 37 games.
Kuzmenko waived his no-trade clause to facilitate this trade.
Pelletier, 23, was a first-round pick by the Flames in 2019. He failed to make the team out of camp this fall but after clearing waivers, he produced at a point-per-game pace in the AHL. The Flames recalled Pelletier back to the NHL in December and he has four goals and 11 points in 23 games.
The Flames are currently right in the thick of the playoff race and moved past the Canucks into the final playoff spot in the west with a 4-1 win Thursday.
The Flyers lost 3-0 to the Islanders on Thursday and are now third-last in the conference with a 23-24-6 record.
