Calgary Flames reassign 2025 WHL Champion Andrew Basha to Medicine Hat Tigers
Calgary, Alta.- The claws of the Medicine Hat Tigers are looking sharper than ever.
The Calgary Flames announced Friday that 2024 second-round pick Andrew Basha will return to the club for the remainder of the 2025-26 season.
Basha, 20, won a WHL Championship with the Tabbies last spring and helped the squad reach the 2025 Memorial Cup Final.
The 6-foot, 187-pound winger is in the midst of his first professional season with the AHL’s Calgary Wranglers.
He has a goal and four assists in 27 games with the Wranglers, with his first pro goal coming in a 4-3 win over the Tucson Roadrunners on October 19, 2025.
Basha showing how it's done 🫡 pic.twitter.com/864rwpKzmS
— Calgary Wranglers (@AHLWranglers) October 20, 2025
The Flames selected the hometown boy with the 41st overall pick in the second round of the 2024 NHL Draft and signed him to a three-year, entry-level contract the following September.
Basha had nine goals and 20 assists for 29 points in 23 games to start the 2024-25 campaign, but found himself sidelined for four months after undergoing ankle surgery.
He served up a comeback story for the ages by returning to the ice for Game 1 of the 2025 WHL Championship Series and scoring less than a minute into the match.
The Medicine Hat alternate captain scored two goals and three assists in five games to lift the Tigers to the team’s sixth Ed Chynoweth Cup.
WHO ELSE BUT ANDREW BASHA?!
The @NHLFlames prospect opens the scoring at the #WHLChampionship in his FIRST shift back from injury!
📺🇨🇦 | @TSN_Sports
📺🇺🇸| @victoryplustv#FeedingtheFuture | #Flames | @tigershockey pic.twitter.com/sLvFrK09u5— Western Hockey League (@TheWHL) May 10, 2025
Originally selected by the Tigers with the 105th overall pick in the fifth round of the 2020 WHL Prospects Draft, Basha has racked up 64 goals and 120 assists for 184 points in 201 regular-season games over four campaigns.
He was named a WHL Central Division Second Team All-Star in 2023-24 after putting up a career-best 30-goal, 55-assist campaign.
Medicine Hat (25-6-3-2) is on a 15-0-1-1 point streak to lead the Central Division and sit atop the WHL Eastern Conference standings.
The Tigers rank as the league’s highest-scoring team with 170 goals in 36 outings while allowing the eighth-fewest goals (109) and icing the second-best powerplay (31.9%) and fifth-best penalty kill (80.7).
The Tabbies will take on the 2024 WHL Champion Moose Jaw Warriors at Co-op Place in Medicine Hat on Friday, January 2 at 7:00 p.m. MST.
Flames fans can stream the entirety of the WHL regular season and playoffs for free on Victory+.
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