Calgary Flames acquire C Nick Shore from the Ottawa Senators

Well, it wasn’t exactly a blockbuster type of deal, but the Calgary Flames have made a trade on trade deadline by acquiring Nick Shore from the Ottawa Senators.

After weeks of reports about the Calgary Flames scouting Ottawa Senators games, we finally found out who they’ve been heavily scouting I guess. The Flames have acquired C Nick Shore from the Senators for a 2019 7th round pick.

This season, Shore has four goals and 16 points in 55 games. While that’s not exactly impressive, like I mentioned on Twitter, he also has a 52.1% CF% with 39.7% OZS%. He seems like he could be a decent bottom-six player. Although he is a centre, so I’m not exactly sure where he fits in the lineup.

But as someone on Twitter mentioned, this isn’t all bad news.

He also shoots right, so that could be a benefit for the Flames. But they also claimed Chris Stewart off of waivers earlier today, so I’m not exactly sure what they want to do with these two or who will be going to Stockton.

Shore has just one assist in his last six games, but he’s also been playing for the Sens… He was also part of the deal that sent Dion Phaneuf to LA and sent Gaborik the other way. So he hasn’t exactly been in Ottawa for very long. With LA this season, he had four goals and 15 points in 49 games. Shore has been playing on the Sens fourth line centring Marian Gaborik and Max McCormick with limited minutes.

While he had slightly better possession metrics in Ottawa than with LA this season, he also started more of the faceoffs in the defensive zone in LA.

Next: Flames claim Chris Stewart off waivers

He’s not the Mike Hoffman we were all hoping for, but at least it isn’t Zack Smith. I’m looking for silver linings here, people. Welcome, Nick!