Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Jamie McLennan Gives His Vibe On The Calgary Flames Heading Into The Season 🔥 | BB Clips

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/6O4FpWlZ8cUFULL INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/2c9VX5frQjIBoomer, Pinder & Rhett are joined by TSN’s Jamie “Noodles” McLennan as he shares his vibe check on this year’s Calgary Flames. The guys dive into Dustin Wolf’s role, Zayne Parekh’s potential, whether key players can bounce back, and the latest on the Rasmus Andersson situation.#calgaryflames #calgary #nhlteam #nhlshorts #nhl #nhlplayoffs #nhlplayoffs CHECK OUT OUR STUFF ⬇️BARN BURNER BLONDE https://originbrewing.myshopify.comFLAMESNATION 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.

Just thoughts in the flames. I mean, we're kind of limping in here. You get in, like you, we start doing shows, start of September. It's like, all right, season's coming. Hey, month later. We've got some preseason split squad. Okay, this isn't an any show roster. Wolf played against Seattle the other night.

Went the distance. Look good. They win. He's why they win. He's, if he's a little bit better, and there are some candidates, and we've talked about, I guess I'm just curious your thoughts on what to expect a year ago, we had very little in the way of expectation, and they finished tied for the final playoff spot to get in on a tie break. There are some players offensively that

are, you can realistically without squinting too hard, see a bit of a bounce back. Sheringovich, Frost, Farabee, there's some guys that could score more. Yeah. What's your vibe here with the flames? I guess just kind of on a broad sense. So my vibe is, a lot of it stems on the goaltender because if he has what I would call a market correction, you know, that 96 points looks like 90, 88, you know, type of thing. Like, but, you know, still a good team, but like going to be battling, battling. Now, the quality of competition around, there are some teams that I, I think Calgary is just better than, you know, either in the Pacific or just in the West, period. So they're fine that way, but I, I always look and go, okay, is nine, where they have, 96 last

year? Can they get to 100 or is it look more like 91, 92? So interestingly, the sports books are not fans and in the market so close to it like we are. I think 83 and a half is the over under and that's way off what they had last year. So the people that are unemotional about it have this as the market correction is that the team isn't as good as they were points wise last year. There might not be a bigger gap between last year's point total and projected points. Then the flames this year. I find them a really hard team to pick. Yeah.

I still think they get points something with a nine in it, but I think it's lower. I don't think it's, I don't think they get to 98, 100. You need, but keep in mind, you talked about it, Boomer, where, you know, guys are maybe due for a bounce back, but are, are any of the guys who had good years last year, maybe having a correct. Yes. Conrys 35 or whatever. You know, like guys like that are you, but and then keep in mind. So that's one thing. That's one bucket.

The other bucket is the elephant or elephants in the room. What are you doing with Anderson? And when you do it? You know, what are you doing with the Coleman, you know, potentially, all of that. And not that you have to trade them, but again, they are, there might be people in play that Connie has to look at the bigger picture. Obviously, the mandate, if it's from ownership or whatever, internally, they want to win and they want to make the playoffs and all of that fun stuff.

and everybody starts an even keel. But you'll start to see 10, 20 games in. What does this team look like? Are they looking to add or are they looking to continue to add but maybe with the subtraction? If you move Anderson, then you're getting somebody younger and maybe picking prospects, that type of stuff, you know, on the fly. But is Anderson off the table?

Like I know he's saying all the right things, but, you know, is it something where if you guys had your way, if you had Craig Conroy's job, are you signing Rasmus if he wants to sign an eight-year extension? We all would have traded them ahead of July 1, I think, is what we would have done. It feels like it's time around. You know, I knew we'd get to the flames eventually,

but you watched Ottawa and Montreal last night. Yeah. No denying they're coming. Yes. Like, no denying it. None. Nobody knows what the flames. are. Well, outside

here's the thing that that's why. You're not by this. The high end. Okay, you're answering. But also the reason that they're coming is because of the players that they have drafted high. Yeah.

They have high end skill. This team might be competitive, but it's not a team that you're going to. One of the questions I was going to ask is, who do you get excited about? I think Perek is the look and Wolf. Yeah. And after that.

Maybe Coronado or Zeri, but yeah, it's not. But even Coronado, even if he's a, 30 goal guy. He's a guy that you really like on your team. Absolutely awesome. Not a come out of your seats. You know what he would be? He would be

core, but support staff core. Not your main piece, right? Not your best winner. Right. So, you know, you talk about Montreal Canadians. Okay, Nick Suzuki took a step last year. We all believe, you know, he's a fantastic player. And, but then, you know, is it

Caulfield that's riding shotgun? Is it Slavkovsky. This Demadop looks like a player. What they're doing is now there's layers to it. And, you know, all of a sudden, New Hook looks like he might be a player for them, settled in. Doc, I talked about. Like there's, there's, and then there's the old guard. It's Gallagher, and you got Josh Anderson and guys like that kicking around there. So to me, you know, it's these layers. In Calgary, the people I get excited about, it's in net, obviously, Dustin Wolf and you got him locked up, that's a star. Parek, I think, has a chance,

but Porek is one or two years away from knowing what we are, unless the guy just hits the ground and he has a lane type of season, but maybe he doesn't. Maybe he just is a good, you know, settles in at the NHL level and gets 30 points this year, which would be a great season, but it takes him two or three years to arrive. So you're right, like there's lots of good players,

but is there, we're building around this piece up front, because you do see, I always call it the spine of the team. You got the goalie. You might have the defensemen, we think, and then who's up front that you're building around. Ottawa and Evanton, I'm sorry, Ottawa and Montreal has that. You know, Ottawa had to go get the goalie.

They got Allmark. They've got Sanderson and Shabbat, and then they've got other pieces around him. And then up top, you've got Stutzla, Kachuk. The list is long. There's all kinds of, yes. Into cousins. Like you look at their center ice position if they wanted to be healthy and if they wanted to show depth,

they could go Stutzla, 22 years old, into Dylan Cousins, 24 years old, into Shane Pinto, 24 years old, into Ridley, Greg, 22 years old. That's if they had, if they felt Greg could be your fourth line center. He's not. He's a second line winger, if you ask me. So that's. And here we've got two guys over 35 on the top two. And Frost, who still remains like we're not quite sure what.

he is and what he's best at. They just need centers and you can't find top centers. Yeah. It's a team that's up the top of the draft. I don't think it's a team that's been built. Right. Does that make sense?

Yeah, sure. It's still a work in progress. Keep in find there's, there's, you know, when Connie took over. 100%. There was a mishmash of like, we got old here. We got, they were trying to go for it on a misconceived notion

that they were capable of going for it. So they tried to throw pieces at it. And it was, here's 10.5 million for a guy who had 115 points the year before. And, you know, he's more of an 80 point guy on a good season, right? Like, Hubertoe. Like, you're not. He gets 70 points this year?

Awesome. I'm trying to go. Yes. Trying to be optimistic. Like, you know. We're understanding of Huberdo, I think, in Calgary, though. I think everyone goes, I understand why they did it. I never wanted them to, but it doesn't matter.

we understand what he is we understand he makes too much we understand you can't move him please get us 65 to 75 that's fine we know we have a $6 million winger and we can live with it is what it is yeah yeah that's fair it's just

I think when the sports books got you at 83 and a half and we're trying to sit here and say how do they get 97 how do they get 96 right like even if you're right and it's 90 is that again And it all goes back to what are we trying to do? And if you've got to go, just hang up.

But what I'd like to say, like I think a lot of it is this is big decision here. Because Craig Conrad goes, okay, Rasmus Anderson, you know, we're going to get a King's Ransom for him, hopefully. And I don't know if that's a young live roster player or if that's too high picks or combination. I don't know what the marketplace will be. That'll be set. And they've got a lot of time to sort that out. you know, does somebody take a flyer on Nas's contract and,

and player? You know, I know Nazim Kodry is a very good player, very coveted by a lot of teams because he's won now and he's predictable. You know what he can bring to the table. So there's another player that you probably have to make a decision on. Coleman.

Sorry, who else? Coleman, two years left. And it's like, look, we get it. You've been great.

You love it here. Do you want to win a cup? Because if this team isn't good enough and Rasmus is gone, You have to have that chat, don't you? I think you look at all the veteran guys and you go, where do they fit? Like Michael Backlin, they know where he fits. Like leadership, they like him. He's not making a ton of money.

Extend him. All of that. But I look at the other players. If you make that decision that you are going to get younger, you're going to try and load up on some assets and allow a pathway for someone in the younger players to push through, then that's where, you know, maybe the 83 to 85. is more realistic because you've moved. And again, unless the goalie wins of ESNA and drags them in, you know, that's the other thing. But again, it becomes the issue, not the solution.

You know what I mean? It's the problem, not the solution. The path is picking them. They're not picking the path, right? Right, right. But what you're trying to do is, you know, you've got some pieces and you're still, you know, they've got young guys coming. It's just, it's that high-end talent.

So the decision has to be made this year. And I think Connie, like the one thing I've always loved about Connie, he's capable. And he thinks outside the box. And he's, you know, not shy, you know, to make moves. It's just a matter of he make the moves that he feels he needs to make, not what we feel in the media. Put it that way. Okay, very quick. One word answer.

Who's the backup? Is it Prosvatov or Kuli? The Russian. Thank you. Yeah. I go with the Russian. He's bigger. I like coolly as a goalie.

I just, uh, I think you don't bring a guy from the K back unless you feel like you want to give him the inside edge. I don't know. I think coolly is, he's played well. He's played well at the H.L level.

He's got some NHL experience. But, you know, I just, I lean more the bigger goalie, the bigger. And, and, yeah,

whatever his name is, props, pop, what I say. Hasvatov is what we're hearing. Pop the top. Blobababab. dub. Yeah, he's a big dude.