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Are Calgary Flames Fans Turning On Ryan Huska TOO SOON?? | BB Clips

October 9, 20260 comments♥ 0
00:00 What do we think of the posthal at center experiment? Are we, uh, could I? I was fine. One game. Well, you know what I mean? Like I was, let's play this out for a while. I agree.
00:20 The blender is a little hyper. It's a little hyperactive. It's ADHD blender. Like it is tough, right? Because, okay, just leave it for a while. And then you watch last night. It's like, I'm not sure I need any more. We have a possible.
00:33 So I can. And then it's like, oh, Gridden's going to have a seat. No, Hansick's going to get more. It's like, it really doesn't take along for Huska to be like, nope, that crossed the line and we're switching. And that's fine because they're standards.
00:44 But to Rett's point, for 84 games, there's going to be a lot of fatigue. You're going to lose guys. Not only are you, not. I don't know. I don't like it. And I get that the coach is trying. And he's pushing all the buttons he can push.
00:59 But when you're doing it this often, this early, how do you get any continuity? Like they left Nemitra ball together for one game? Exactly. It's all a jumbled mess. And I'm curious, yeah, because, and as you sit here, we've talked about it so many times, I don't want, okay, so they're making changes.
01:17 Is it because of, is it poor play? Is it discipline? Is it, you're taking too long or shit? Like, why? Yeah, it's the very stuff. It's the standard wasn't it. Is it all? Yeah, like how much of it is, is it work ethic?
01:30 or I think there's chemistry or there's not chemistry. I just... This group is going tonight. Yeah, I don't know what goes into it. But I think what's clear is that there's a standard that if you're not at, there's not a lot of patience. And when you have a young team that's worse in the league, you might need to lift that threshold.
01:46 You might have to have... Do you have young kids? Jack, do you have young kids? Oh, no. Jack is a young kid. You ever had young kids? I had... Yeah.
01:55 And what are they... I'm still not good at it, but they kind of demand that you, be somewhat patient. Yeah. And so Husk, take that into account. He's in such a tough spot. And he's in the spotlight now.
02:08 After this, there is stuff? Okay. So can I say this? Is he putting the bull's eye on his own or is he put in the news because of all that he's doing? Do you know what I mean? His approach was, listen, I got to let these guys play. We've got to find a path.
02:24 Blah, blah, blah, blah. Instead, he's saying there's. Correct the way. Right? Yeah. The message, even the message, out in public and in the media is like, he's going to be, this is how we're going to do it.
02:34 This is the only, well, now you're stating that I know how to coach this and when it doesn't work and it's seven fucking three. Yeah, and you got, now it turns around and it points at you. You got 80 games left. Instead of saying, listen, this is what we're in.
02:51 This is what we have. This is what I'm going to work with. I'm going to teach these guys to be professionals and great. It's not going to happen overnight. Do you want to hear the same? I'll say the same thing after the next game and next week and next month. And in March and April, I'll start to have some evaluating of, yeah, they're coming. You're coaching your kids, you, whatever it is.
03:17 From today until the end of the year, they're going to improve significantly. That's the message. Right. We're working through things. Yeah. We're going to figure it out. It's not a Picasso. It's not a, right?
03:30 I think he said, I think the organization is sending the wrong message. And when you do the Zeri transaction, it's only going to put the spotlight more on the coach. And is that Huska saying to Connie, like, look, I've done with this, like, we've gone to the well too many times and no results. Or is it Conroy being like, I got to shake things up. What do you think about this? Like, we don't know the impetus of it. We have hunches. We don't know.
03:54 But it really does turn up the heat on the coach. Does the clearing of waivers take some of that away? though? A little, but then it's like, oh, he didn't develop him properly. Like, if he's still on the roster, it doesn't feel like Huska's on trial as much he is. And he probably isn't in the organization, but just this fan base. Like, the conversations you're having are like, is this the right coach for a rebuild? And I think he's a great coach. But the fan base is like, well, what happened to Zeri then?
04:21 If he's so good at developing kids, you know, like if he's not in the minors, we're not having that chat. And I'm not saying that because fans are talking about this is the very logical and factual, but it does put the temperature up a bit on the coach, doesn't it? And again, what we talked about, patience, there's been zero. Yeah, zero. We're going to work with last spring. Maybe they hate each other. I don't give a shit, but
04:43 last spring, it's like, no, we had frickin' Conroy on him, what, in September? Now I've got to see these kids play. Three weeks ago. Yeah. One game? Yeah, it's interesting. So it just looks panic-driven. It does. What is precipitating the the bingo balls, the flopping around.
05:03 Because I don't get the sense that Huska's a vengeful coach. I'm going to stick it to this. I'm going to send a mess. I'm going to teach you a less. I don't think that's it. I feel like he's behind the bench, obviously trying to win. And weighing that internal struggle he has to have as a coach between we need the next goal and I can't sit Nemich down because he,
05:29 Well, you're sitting twice turning. I, you're right. I think you're, I think we're seeing it correctly. I think that they should have a big, freaking group get together and go for beers with Pinder. Yes. Get pissed up and have a little chit-chat. And I'm talking, Pascal and Don, Maloney and Craig and the coaching staff.
05:52 Jerome. And say, listen, we're in this. There's no, wait. Raising the stress level and trying to oversteer this is not going to help. No. Like, we're getting tossed about in the waves here. Let's just pick a path.
06:10 Like I said with Detroit, how their record is going to ultimately dictate what happens. Do you think it gets to a point here where it just, like we feel like we see it? Where what? They do that. Or they have to take. When you stop hammering the button.
06:28 as the coach and you're just like, okay. Yeah, but then it's worse because I thought we were about a standard. What happened to the standard? Now you've put, that's what I'm saying. You are now really putting the bullseye or the noose around your own necks because you're going, well, no, we're going to be to this. You're 15 games back. You've got eight points halfway through the season.
06:50 What are you talking about? What's the standard? How's it working out? Then you have to go, I'm going to change it. Well, now you look like a flippy floppy. And that's what we do. You know what everyone's waiting for? And it's hilarious to say because we're still very early days in the season.
07:05 But it's like if you sell some vets and you call up some kids and you sign the guys from college, but now that's happening until April, it was March. Yeah. Like. And so you're not playing Gridden and you're Benzun-Hon-Zerick and Zeri's gone and you're just making changes. And what the, what I believe is happening is that he's been here.
07:22 This is his fourth season, I believe, is head coach. And there has been a standard that has been very clear for, three years, he's going to have to move the bar because this group sucks. Like, they're not bad humans. They're not non-NHLers. But go put this forward group against any other in the NHL. It is so devoid of playmakers. You have to change the standard of it.
07:45 And I get the work thing. Like, we can be untalented, but we have to work. I get that. But when you, the blender is buzzing. You're going to lose, guys. In the first period, every game, it's just like, here we bleep and go again. Who's my linemate? What's his name?
07:58 Where was he last week? What league? I'm proud of you for making a strong comment. And I think he's a very good coach. We talk about it. It's the toughest spot. It's very tough. And I think he's taking the wrong angle towards it.
08:14 We'll see who we adjusts because he will. He's no dummy.