Oliver Kylington, once viewed as a fixture on the Calgary Flames blueline before his summer departure from the team, returns to the Saddledome on Thursday for the first time as a member of the Colorado Avalanche.

Kylington was a pending free agent last July and chose to test the market after declining an offer from the Flames. He went unsigned until August, when he inked a one-year pact with Colorado. The Flames host the Avalanche tonight at the Saddledome.

“I was not happy at that time,” he said after morning skate. “I’m not going to comment on everything, but there’s a lot that happened. It was a new place for me to be in, and also…yeah, it was a new world. It was a lot of stuff that happened, and now I’m here.”

Kylington spent part of Wednesday night at captain Mikael Backlund’s house and has seen several other former teammates this week.

The Flames drafted him in 2015 and he had become a top-four blueliner during the 2021-22 campaign before leaving the........

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