Every offseason, National Hockey League teams experience roster turnover as players retire, get traded or sign elsewhere.
A pair of news items out of Europe seem to indicate the first couple members of the Calgary Flames organization that likely won’t be back in 2017-18.
According to a report from Kazakhstan’s Shaiba.kz, Linden Vey has signed a one-year contract with Barys Astana of the Kontinental Hockey League. This comes on the heels of a Vesti.kz interview with Barys Astana’s club president where he confirmed that the team was negotiating with Vey, as the team may be losing veterans Dustin Boyd, Nigel Dawes, Brandon Bochenski and Kevin Dallman due to the tight economic situation in Europe (and the KHL).