Why the Calgary Flames should be in on Brett Kulak

In 2012, the Calgary Flames drafted Brett Kulak from the Western Hockey League’s Vancouver Giants. In 2018, they traded him to the Montreal Canadiens. This March, with the hockey club enjoying their best on-ice season in years, they Flames should strong consider bringing Kulak back at the trade deadline.

Kulak was selected by the Flames in the fourth round of the 2012 NHL Draft. He soon became one of their better AHL defenders, essentially a Western Canadian version of Oliver Kylington from a few seasons earlier.

Kulak spent parts of four seasons with the Flames, playing 101 NHL games with the big club but basically wobbling between the NHL’s third pair and the AHL’s third pair. Following an…