Report: Flames prefer long-term additions to rentals

After the Michael Frolik swap, the Calgary Flames have some cap space to work with. What they plan on doing with that cap space was one of the subject’s of Saturday’s edition of Headlines on Hockey Night in Canada.

Elliotte Friedman noted that the Flames appear to have a preference for how they’ll spend their cap space.

I think the question is what are they going to do with it. From what I understand they’re not really that interested in rentals, they’d prefer somebody with term. That’s what their preference is if they try to add someone.

And the second thing is I think guys, it depends on where [Elias] Lindholm is going to play long term. If he’s a center, I think they look for right wings. I…