Calgary Flames sign Yegor Sharangovich to five-year extension

The Calgary Flames have locked up one of their core for the foreseeable future.

The Flames signed Yegor Sharangovich to a five-year, $28.75 million deal on Monday, the forward’s agent Dan Milstein announced on social media.

The contract carries an annual average value of $5.75 million per year.

After being traded to Calgary ahead of the 2023-24 season that sent Tyler Toffoli to New Jersey, the 26-year-old enjoyed a breakout season with the Flames.

He recorded 31 goals and 28 assists for 59 points in 82 games last season — all career highs.

In his first season as a Flame, Sharangovich became the first Belarusian to score more than 30 goals in a single season. His 59 points were the most by a Belarusian in a single season.

Sharangovich has a year remaining on a contract paying him $3.1 million next season before his five-year extension kicks in.

The six-foot-two, 196-pound centre was a fifth-round pick (141st overall) by the Devils in 2018.

Sharangovich has a career 84 goals and 81 assists in 287 games with New Jersey and Calgary.

Other Flames signings

In other Flames transactions to kick off NHL free agency, Calgary-born defenceman Jake Bean came home after agreeing to a two-year contract worth $1.75 million per year, forward Ryan Lomberg signed a two-year, $4-million contract and right-winger Anthony Mantha agreed to a one-year deal worth $3.5 million.

Czech forward Martin Frk agreed to a one-year, two-way contract worth $775,000.

Milstein also posted that goaltender Devin Cooley agreed to a two-year contract with Calgary worth a maximum average value of $775,000 per year.

Bean played the majority of his Western Hockey League career with his hometown Calgary Hitmen.

The six-foot-one, 191-pound rearguard had four goals and nine assists in 71 games last season for the Columbus Blue Jackets. 

Bean was a first-round pick (13th overall) by the Carolina Hurricanes in 2016. He played in 197 career NHL games with the ‘Canes and the Blue Jackets.

He won a Calder Cup with the AHL’s Charlotte Checkers in 2019 and was named AHL’s most outstanding defenceman in 2020. 

Lomberg, 29, played for the Florida Panthers for four seasons and helped the club win the Stanley Cup last week. He appeared in six playoff games, including Game 7 of the Cup final.

The five-foot-nine, 184-pound winger from Richmond Hill, Ont., had 28 goals and 21 assists and 327 penalty minutes in 246 career games with Florida.

Lomberg returns to the team with which he made his NHL debut in 2017-18. He played 11 games for the Flames before joining the Panthers.

Mantha, of Longueuil, Que., had a combined 23 goals and 21 assists for Washington and Vegas this past season.

The Capitals traded Mantha to the Golden Knights on March 5 for a second-round pick in this year’s draft and a fourth-round selection in 2026.

The 29-year-old was a first-round pick (20th overall) by Detroit in 2013. 

The six-foot-five, 230-pound defenceman has 142 goals and 154 assists in 494 career NHL games with Detroit, Washington and Vegas. 

Frk, 30, had seven goals and nine assists in 33 Swiss league games last season. He’s played 124 NHL games in his career with Los Angeles, Detroit and Carolina. 

Frk played major junior hockey for the QMJHL’s Halifax Mooseheads and won a Memorial Cup with them in 2013.

Cooley, 27, appeared in six NHL games for the San Jose Sharks this past season for a 2-3-1 record, a 4.98 goals-against average and an .870 save percentage.

In 40 AHL games for Milwaukee and Rochester, the six-foot-five, 192-pound netminder from Los Gatos, Calif., posted a combined 21-14-4 record.

Among the players who departed the Flames on Monday, left-winger A.J. Greer signed a two-year contract with the Panthers.

Flames issue offers to seven restricted free agents

The Flames also issued qualifying offers to seven of their pending restricted free agents, the team announced Sunday.

Forwards Adam Klapka, Jakob Pelletier and Cole Schwindt, defencemen Ilya Solovyov, Yan Kuznetsov and Nikita Okhotiuk and goaltender Dustin Wolf all received qualifying offers.

The only two Flames’ RFAs to not receive an offer from the team were forwards Dillon Dube and Riley Damiani.

Dube is one of four NHL players charged in connection with a sexual assault case involving five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team.

Wolf, 23, played in 17 games with the Flames this season and finished with a 7-7-1 record with a 3.16 goals against average and 0.893 save percentage.

With regular Jacob Markstrom recently traded to the New Jersey Devils, Wolf should see plenty of playing time with the Flames next season.

Pelletier also spent a bit of time with the big club last season, playing in 13 games where he recorded one goal and two assists. Pelletier struggled with injuries last year, missing the Flames’ first 49 games of the season with a shoulder injury.