Flames commit to Treliving with multi-year contract extension
CALGARY The Calgary Flames signed general manager Brad Treliving to a multi-year contract extension Monday, locking up a key architect of the team’s return to competitiveness.
Treliving has served as Flames GM since April 2014 and Calgary has reached the playoffs twice under his tenure, including this season when they were swept in the first round by the Anaheim Ducks.
Calgary failed to make the playoffs for five straight seasons prior to Treliving’s arrival.
“We are striving to create a level of continuity and stability, as all successful teams do,” Flames president of hockey operations Brian Burke said in a statement. “Today’s announcement is another step forward for our organization on that path. Under Brad’s leadership, we have seen progress over the past three seasons and look forward to building on that growth in the coming years.”
The Flames have gone 125-10318 over the last three seasons and finished the 2016-17 campaign with a 45-33-4 record and the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference. Treliving had a busy off-season in 2016 starting with the firing of head coach Bob Hartley, whom he had inherited from previous GM Jay Feaster, after Calgary failed to reach the post-season. He hired Glen Gulutzan as Hartley’s replacement. Calgary then used its sixth-overall selection at the NHL draft to select power forward Matthew Tkachuk from the Memorial Cup winning London Knights. The move paid immediate dividends as Tkachuk scored 13 goals and 25 assists in 76 games this season, finishing sixth in rookie scoring.