It’s exceedingly rare for an NHL head coach to oversee a team’s teardown and return to contention in the same city. Article content

With Thursday’s announcement that the Calgary Flames had extended head coach Ryan Huska’s contract for two more years, he is set to be the exception. Article content Article content

Huska’s first season, in 2023-24, was burdened by veterans who had no intention of sticking around. Today, the team is significantly younger, and there’s only more youth on the way.

Huska’s job over the next three years is to make sure those young pieces are ready to lead the Flames back to the promised land. That makes him one of the single most important figures in the organization’s retool.

“We will be, over the years, getting younger as we go, we’ll be pushing the gro

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