Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Calgary Flames Sign Simon Nemec To Five-Year, $36.25M Contract | BB Clips

Episode Date: July 7, 2026

Boomer and Rhett react to the Calgary Flames locking up Simon Nemec on a five-year, $36.25 million contract after acquiring the young defenceman from the New Jersey Devils earlier this offseason. With a $7.25 million cap hit and a major trade package already invested in him, Calgary is clearly betting big that Nemec can become a cornerstone piece on the blue line. The guys break down the contract, Craig Conroy getting the deal done early, what Nemec means for the Flames' future, and whether this is the kind of swing Calgary needed to take.Video Link: https://youtu.be/t_lqBIqj7Tc#nhl #nhlshorts #nhlplayoffs #nhlpredictions #nhlhockey #nhlpicks #stanleycup #stanleycupfinal #calgaryflames CHECK OUT OUR STUFF ⬇️BARN BURNER MERCHhttps://nationgear.ca/collections/shirts/FlamesnationBARN BURNER SHORTS https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj_bcGtvvo-cW2DHEDZ6dEO5ePDmlhZc9&si=jo8iNGxT4ImhS2Y8📲 Follow us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fnbarnburner/X (Twitter): https://x.com/barnburnerfn?lang=en🎧 Listen on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/barn-burner-boomer-pinder-with-rhett-warrener/id1648562889Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mc6Qd5U22R2zbMlQ7RxIiProducer: Jack Haverstock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The news is Simone Nemich got his deal done. They made the big swing for him a couple weeks ago. He was a restricted free agent, needed a deal. He's played three years in the league, so he was ready coming out of his entry level. They sign it to a five-year contract extension. It kicks in this year at 7.25. Now, without talking to the player and the agent and all of this sort of thing, we were only left to guess. We wonder what's going to be.

And the word coming out of New Jersey, again, could be innuendo and rumor. He looked around at the other D on his teams. I'm going to want all the money. I'm going to want $9 million is what I'm wanting. Pay me. Max term, all the money. This is not Max term.

It buys one year of unrestricted free agency. And it's not $9 million. It's $7.25. This feels like it's a bridge of sorts. But I'm fine with the term and the dough. I think. We'll see as we get to watch this player. I give GM's credit in a way.

You're buying something you've never used. It's like buying a tool or buying, hey, here's a new guitar. Can I play it? No, you can look at it though. It sounds great. Okay. I'd sure love to at least hold it and see how it feel.

You got to pay full freight. So it's seven and a quarter. He's, but he's 22 years old. I, I like the deal. I think it's a fine compromise. It's a great deal. I don't give me. Between paying over nine and eight, seven years or, let's do two years or three and see how it goes.

I, I, I think it's good work for both, both sides. How old is Bolin Byron? 25. A couple years older. Yeah. Drafted in the same sort of realm. Yeah. Well, and a half.

Like, I, I, I think it's a good deal. I think it works. And again. And I wonder if the Breyer thing is played into it where it's like the bridging and this and of that. Well, if he's that good, you're going to get. Yeah. So I think he's got to be happy. He's making some good money.

Maybe not as much as he hoped. But he's set up. I like the deal for the flames. I'm trusting that that kid is at least a two, three. Yeah. And even in today's value or world, that's a full. Yeah. That money's a four defenseman, a four, five even maybe.

Like it's, it's not outlandish money for a kid that's got that much upside. Yeah, you're, I, I do agree. You could be a top four making seven, seven and change, seven to five. And no one's going to be, who is a huge overpay. If anything, this feels like it will be a good value and you may have to pay. But again, I, I kind of just, this feels good to me. This feels like a, this feels like a common sense for both sides. So, you know, you go on social media to see what other people, how they're reacting.

Yeah, it's pretty, pretty level-headed for, for the player, you're, you're being well paid. And I do wonder if there was a bit of show of faith from, well, not so much for the show of faith. This is the player saying, you know what, you paid up for me. A couple first rounders. I was in New Jersey. I was kind of, you know, I was back of the bus a little bit. You ship out two firsts. The door is wide open for me to play here,

power play all of this. There's some other guys in the mix, of course. But it does feel like there was a show of good faith here from the player as well. It gets done relatively early in the summer. And it's not obviously for crazy though. I think both sides were, sounds like they're, or looks appears like they're happy and content to be working together on this.

So go get them. Yeah. Conner. Conno. He's doing too good a job. There's no stress right now. He's back in New York being a lazy bastard. Yeah, because he's, he got this done.

It was the one big thing that you, and you did, you wonder, just because he's played so little, but was a second overall pick and all, who, this could be a, this could be a real bugger. Got it done. Found a way. I mean, it's because he's so nice. Might be. I do, I think it's what you said. I think the kid wanted to go to a situation where he felt wanted.

I don't know if you've sensed that. And again, we're a million. miles away from it. Maybe it's all a bunch of BS we're making up. But it does have that kind of feel where it's like, finally, I'm at an organization where I went from being popular and now we got these other guys and they're taking all my eyes. Nobody gives a shit about how I'm doing. Screw it. Get me out of here. And now I'm in a spot. Good. Thank you. I'll show. Let me do it. because he doesn't need to sign now. He could look at it and say seven and a quarter five years. Okay, thanks. I'm going to go boating. Yeah, all day, every day, whenever I want.

He doesn't need to sign it today, but, uh, but he does get it done. So it does, there's some blue liners retro. They've got some guys on the back end on the right side, these right handed guys, Nemich, White Cloud, Perrek, and Paul. And then for left shots, ball, Middleton, Hanley, and Kuznetsoff. And then you've got for Stevich, who we, want to be on this team. So in the way that Conroy's work is done, it's not totally done. There's some decisions that still need to be made, but you're on mute.

There's nothing major sitting on Connie's plate, uh, keeping him up at night. No, no, no, he'll be out by you. Are you going? I should pop over while he called. He wants to have. Oh, I see. Yeah. Yeah. We're at talks in business. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to call, you'll be harder to sign than Nemich in the end. Yeah. Yeah.