The Philadelphia Flyers might be making a trade sometime soon and there’s already a team poking around depth defenseman Egor Zamula.
According to Daily Faceoff’s Anthony Di Marco, the Calgary Flames are looking to make an addition on their blue line and specifically on the left side. And even more specifically, someone who is young and also has some size to him. Someone who checks all of those boxes is Zamula and he has been already linked to the Flames.
Sounds like the #flames are looking for a young, left shot defenseman with size. They have too many bodies on 1-way deals on defense and want to move some out; Bean and Miromanov being two, I’m told.
PHI’s Zamula, who played JR in CGY, I’ve heard CGY likes.@DailyFaceoff
— Anthony Di Marco (@ADiMarco25) October 17, 2025
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As Di Marco mentioned, the 25-year-old left-handed defenseman does have a local connection to Calgary since he spent his development days playing for the WHL’s Calgary Hitmen before signing with the Flyers as an undrafted free agent in 2018. Since then, he’s been steadily rising up the rankings to eventually becoming a quasi-regular on the Flyers’ blue line and lacing up for a total of 157 games for them. He has so far, scored eight total goals and 40 points during his time in the NHL.
Zamula was already involved in minor trade rumors dating back to the trade deadline last season, but other than a couple small reports of teams checking in on his availability, nothing was done and he remained in Philadelphia.
This season though, after a miserable preseason and training camp, and a stuttering start to his campaign, Zamula has been a healthy scratch for the Flyers through the last two games. Which could be a little bit of a trigger for teams to check in and see that someone they could potentially develop further on their own team, since he is just 25 years old, is available. He has the physical tools necessary for some teams to gleefully ignore his recent performances and think that there’s something more. And reportedly, the Flames are one team that certainly think that.
The Flames have over $10 million in cap space, so Zamula’s one year left of a $1.7-million AAV before he hits restricted free agency next summer, should be no problem to acquire. But just looking at who they are icing on the blue line, and if they aspirations to improve on last season’s surprising success, then having a left side of Kevin Bahl, 34-year-old Joel Hanley, and right-handed Brayden Pachal; isn’t something you necessarily want.
As much as it might be weird for some Flyers fans, Zamula could certainly be an improvement.
What could the Flyers expect in an Egor Zamula trade?
Zamula does not have a whole lot of value. The package of what a player he could be, could be enticing to some teams, but there isn’t a whole lot of proven success other than having some uncharacteristically good underlying numbers last season. This would be a low-level trade return, if it were to happen.
Two names Di Marco mentions as players the Flames are looking to move out, to clear room for someone potentially like Zamula, are 27-year-old Jake Bean, and 28-year-old Daniil Miromanov. If the Flames of all teams — you just saw what sort of blue line they’re working with — view these players as expendable, you just know that they are not close to NHL level and are certainly not the answers in Philadelphia.
The Flyers are looking to still improve their blue line and Zamula is not seen as an option currently. Noah Juulsen and Adam Ginning have leaped over him on the depth chart, and we’re sure Dennis Gilbert could at least supply the same value as the 25-year-old when it comes to being a No. 7 defender for this Flyers roster. Taking back either Bean or Miromanov would feel like an unnecessary burden, but maybe Briere would have to do it if they could squeeze something more out of Flames general manager Craig Conroy.
The Flames own the Vancouver Canucks’ 2026 third-round pick, and have all their own picks outside of the seventh round — we have to assume a first-round pick is not even close to being moved in a deal like this, obviously. Could Briere potentially snag something as good as a third-rounder for Zamula if they take back a pending unrestricted free agent like Jake Bean, for example? The prospects the Flames have are either too good to be moved in a deal like this, or too inconsequential to be preferred over a draft pick.
A simple pick-for-player move feels like the most likely end result, but that’s just a guessing game at this point.
We’ll have to see where this goes but we certainly know that the Flyers probably wouldn’t lose much sleep if they had to move on from Zamula. He was a great story as an undrafted free agent out of the CHL, but the Russian defender has not taken the next step and feels like he’s one foot out of Philadelphia already.