Flames Lose Rights to 2024 Pick Hunter Laing

Calgary has another one of those quiet front-office headaches that still matters when you zoom in. The Flames are now out of time on 2024 draft choice Hunter Laing, which means the organization no longer controls his rights the way it once did. For a team that has to squeeze value out of every pick, this is the kind of development that does not make noise publicly but absolutely gets noticed in the hockey ops department.