Flames GM Treliving won't return next season after 2nd missed playoffs in 3 seasons

Brad Treliving has left the Calgary Flames after nine seasons as general manager, the team announced Monday.

The Flames, in a release posted to the team's website, said the two sides agreed to mutually part ways.

The 53-year-old from Penticton, B.C., was in the final year of his contract with the Flames.

Don Maloney, who served five seasons as vice president of hockey operations, has been promoted to president of hockey operations and will serve as interim general manager. The team says the search for a new GM will begin immediately.

"It's a difficult day when you must part ways with a quality colleague and friend," Flames president John Bean said in a statement. "We are grateful of Brad's contributions over the past nine years and wish him every success in his future, both personally and professionally. But for our fans and our business, we need to move forward, and we are confident with Don's experience that we will find the right general manger to build on Brad's work and lead our team to the Stanley Cup."

Calgary made the playoffs five times during Treliving's tenure, and reached the second round in 2015 and 2022. The Flames fell short of the playoffs this season, however, with a 38-27-17 record.

The Flames went 324-238-58 under Treliving and twice topped the Pacific Division with 50-win seasons (2019, 2022).

Treliving inherited Bob Hartley as a head coach and hired four: Glen Gulutzan, Bill Peters, Geoff Ward and Darryl Sutter.

Sutter previously coached the Flames from 2002 to 2006 and was GM from 2003 to 2010. The Flames hired him again in March of 2021 when Ward was fired.

Treliving wasn't afraid of chasing big fish with large cheques, or making blockbuster trades.

His most recent headliner was dealing Matthew