"We're all frustrated," the forward said. "We can play better, and that's about it. It doesn't come from me. Yeah, it's my agent but it's from him.
"It's his account. He made that tweet. That doesn't reflect on me or on the guys. We all love each other. We're a close team. We're going to grind this out and make the playoffs."
Less than 20 minutes after the Flames' 5-2 home loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday, Allan Walsh tweeted, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Also, negativity sucks the joy right out of players. cc: @NHLFlames."
It was widely interpreted as a reference to Calgary coach Darryl Sutter and his demanding style.
"Darryl's Darryl," Huberdeau said. "Sometimes you won't like what the coach does, and some nights you do like it. You're never 100 percent happy with the coach, decisions, stuff like that. Darryl and I have a great connection, a great friendship. And he's good. He wants to win just like us."
When asked to comment on the tweet from Walsh, Sutter said, "That's not really the players, is it?"
Huberdeau was acquired from the Florida Panthers with defenseman MacKenzie Weegar in the trade for forward Matthew Tkachuk on July 22, and signed an eight-year, $84 million contract ($10.5 million average annual value) on Aug. 5 that begins next season.
He is fourth on the Flames with 36 points (10 goals, 26 assists) in 52 games this season. Huberdeau led the NHL with 85 assists last season and tied then-Calgary forward Johnny Gaudreau for second with 115 points (30 goals) in 80 games.
Huberdeau said he wasn't immediately aware of his agent's tweet.
"I had no idea," Huberdeau said. "When I woke up this morning, I had a lot of notifications on my phone. You guys all know Allan. You guys know him probably a lot more than I do. I woke up this morning and saw that tweet. I talked to him this morning. Gave him a call when I saw that. I don't want that to happen."
Weegar called Walsh's tweet "a bit irrelevant" and said it won't have an impact in the dressing room.
"It's not coming from a player," Weegar said. "It's coming from an agent. There's lots of positivity in this room. We're going through ups and downs this whole season and it's easy to get frustrated and maybe down, but it's a tight group in here. We love coming to the rink every day, and we're going to grind through this and we're going to keep having fun while we're doing it."
The Flames (25-19-11) are in fifth place in the Pacific Division and trail the Seattle Kraken by seven points for third. They trail the Minnesota Wild by two points for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.
Calgary, which won the Pacific last season, has lost four of five (1-2-2) heading into its home game against the New York Rangers on Saturday (10 p.m. ET; CITY, SNE, SNO, SNW, MSG, ESPN+, SN NOW) and has not had a winning streak longer than three games this season, the latest coming Dec. 3-7.
"As a group, we're mature," Huberdeau said. "We have a lot of veterans. We're having a lot of fun. But we want to win too. Right now we're not in a playoff spot, so I think we want to try more and forget about the social media stuff and do it at a team."
