Next season, he’ll be the highest-paid of the local point-patrollers. You could make a case that Weegar might be the Flames’ top defenceman. MacKenzie Weegar battles with Canucks defenceman Guillaume Brisebois during a pre-season game on Sept. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Instead, he is now committed to stay put in Calgary through the end of the 2030-31 campaign at an annual salary-cap hit of US$6.25 million. Weegar, 28, would have been eligible next July for unrestricted free-agency - and in-their-prime puck-movers can command a whole lot of loot on the open market.

The Flames have seen enough - both over the course of his career and since he arrived at the Saddledome as part of Brad Treliving’s summer roster overhaul - to know that they want this guy to be a fixture on their defence for a long, long while. So the expectations are high within the teammates, which is great.” “A few of them said, ‘Well deserved,’ but they don’t really know. “The guys were all excited, shaking my hand and saying congratulations,” Weegar beamed Friday, just moments after signing a max-term extension with the Calgary Flames. The next issue of Your Midday Sun will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.

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