{"id":493413,"date":"2026-07-02T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=493413"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:44:09","slug":"blake-coleman-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/07\/02\/blake-coleman-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Wild and Calgary Flames Swing Offseason Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/06\/23\/flames-simon-nemec-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">Calgary Flames<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2026\/06\/30\/minnesota-wild-and-bobby-brink-contract-came-down-to-the-wire\/\" target=\"_self\">Minnesota Wild<\/a> have made an offseason deal. Calgary and Minnesota have made the <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/colembl01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Coleman<\/a> trade, which also saw a couple of other players go the other way. Minnesota gets Coleman, who has 50 percent o<a  href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/player\/blake-coleman\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">f his salary retained<\/a>, and <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/maattol01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olli Maatta<\/a>. Calgary gets <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/middlja01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob Middleton<\/a> along with <span>a 2029 2nd round pick, a 2027 3rd round pick, and 2028 4th round pick. This news was first broken by Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friemdan.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:udj5sty2gbhfb4yisnkxd3aq\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mpoemv2cys27\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreie57qm5gj6fsbd6qukrm3fiolcull6olqa6xjx3w7ysm5fym5d3ai\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Wild trade Jake Middleton to the Flames, acquiring Blake Coleman and Olli Maattawww.nytimes.com\/athletic\/701&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:udj5sty2gbhfb4yisnkxd3aq?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Russo (@russohockey.bsky.social)<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:udj5sty2gbhfb4yisnkxd3aq\/post\/3mpoemv2cys27?ref_src=embed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2026-07-02T15:41:53.111Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Blake Coleman Trade Made Between the Calgary Flames and the Minnesota Wild<\/h2>\n<p>Coleman, who has been long the subject of rumours, is finally on his way out of Calgary. The two-time Stanley Cup winner is coming off a 20-goal season where he added 15 assists in 69 games. Calgary will retain $2.45 million of his current $4.9 million salary. Coleman will be entering the final year of his contract this season, but he will be on a contender.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton was a staple of the Wild&#8217;s defence, but is now moving onto the Flames. The <span>Wainwright, Alberta native is headed back to his home province. He only got two goals in 75 games last season. However, the 30-year-old is more known for his physical play and his veteran leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Flames also get some draft picks as general manager <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/conrocr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Conroy<\/a> continues to stockpile picks in the team&#8217;s rebuild. Calgary is hoping to be on the uptick when its new arena is ready to open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOB1H6wT6Di\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 5597px; aspect-ratio: 5597\/3733;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0(Credit Image: \u00a9 Jordan Teller\/ISIPhotos via ZUMA Press Wire)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>Coleman is a proven winner and does many things well on both ends of the ice. The Wild have designs on making a deep run in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Minnesota has plenty of big-ticket players that are on the roster. However, Coleman&#8217;s salary won&#8217;t take too much of a bite out of that.<\/p>\n<p>Maatta will also be a good veteran defender for Minnesota. He can help fill out one of the better defensive groups in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Middleton returns north of the border and can offer steady veteran leadership. He&#8217;s a good-sized defender and will be relied upon to anchor a defensive group that may be on the inexperienced side of things.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Sergei Belski-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calgary Flames and the Minnesota Wild have made an offseason deal. Calgary and Minnesota have made the Blake Coleman trade, which also saw a couple of other players go the other way. Minnesota gets Coleman, who has 50 percent of his salary retained, and Olli Maatta. Calgary gets Jacob Middleton along with a 2029 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":484692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4547,30,34,4548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flames","category-hockey","category-wild","category-news","category-nhl"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493428,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493413\/revisions\/493428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}