Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - LIVE From Penticton For The Young Stars Classic (Day 1) | FN Barn Burner - September 14th, 2024

Episode Date: September 14, 2024

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Well, hi, buddies. From the banks of the beautiful Lake Oganaga. It is, it's Boomer, it's Pender, it's Barnburner. There's RJ. He's in a mild twist today. He is. That is part of his MO when he is setting up. You should have seen him in Vegas for the live draft show.

He begins to like start, I guess, sort of identifying as a butterfly. Right, yeah. Wound like a golf ball, you could say, which is rather tight. Yeah. But yeah, we're here. Live at the lakeside, resort and conference center. Another beautiful day if you like sunshine and that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah.

Sunshine and warmth and gorgeous. I think they're supposed to be rain later, but it can screw off right now. See that big banster day? Kind of, yeah. Either way, welcome. Welcome here as we continue our in-depth coverage of the Young Stars classic 2024 event in Penticton. Your dog Walker, Dean?

I've been known to walk a dog. Because we are right on a prime corridor between the nice little old pier here. And then there's a dogged, a fenced area for dogs that literally is on the beach into the water. So your dog can retrieve sticks from the beach into the lake. Yeah. Dogs love that shit. They do. Yeah, they really do.

Yeah, they really love that. Most dogs. Speaking of dogs, I thought you'd be sick like one today with how last night seemed to be going. We went to the game. We watched, which we will talk about. But we watched the flames take on whoever they played yesterday. I think they were in blues. Yeah, somebody.

And then we went out and had a burger and a couple of drinks. And then, oh, boom dog, he's, you know, we talk about being a dog. He's got to get some, get some z's. Lie down in front of the fireplace, curl up on your math. That's right. Start snoring, drooling that sort of thing. I knew that was not what was going to be in your immediate future. What did end up happening last night?

Well, we put you to bed. You had the privilege running into some old pals. I hadn't seen for about a half decade, which is always great. And, you know, memory lane and a few cocktails here or there. And then I thought, you know, I think I might just head up to the room for a moment. I checked in with the warden. See how the little gremlins were doing. It was not an inspiring conversation.

Stress levels are high. S only hits the fan when I'm not in town. It's like, hey, honey, how are you? I'm sick. No. Why when I'm gone? Never when I'm home. Yeah.

And so I, I did my best to push my sympathy through the cellular signals back to Caldering. And then I got to text from Steinberg, going back to the bar. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds about right. No, I guess just a could. So now just memory lane, like you say, you lived here in Penticton, covering the V's. 708. I moved to Penticton from Fort St. John for my first, like, real play-by-play job of note, which I was very excited about. I was sure I was very good.

I was very wrong. I'm sure you were great. But four years later, I left a more polished broadcaster and someone that owned suits, not just sweatpants and hoodies in the broadcast. So it was a coming of age story, Dean.

So four years here, and obviously you got to meet a lot of people. I guess I'm just curious, if this was, say, in this event, the Young Star is classic, if it was in Prince George, who was, you know,

Prince Rupert or, you know, Swift Current or something like that. Would we be here? God no. But if it was in Colonna where I don't have pals, we would love to go. If it was in Vernon, we would do it. I mean, it's the Okinaw in September. I mean, do you think the view behind us looks like this in Prince George today?

Yeah, yeah. That's where they hosted here. It just, it felt like one of those things at the beginning. It's like, I think maybe Pinder just wants to go and see some pals. And then the closer we got to it and you hear about the things he's got lined up. Yeah, I think I might be right. He might be looking to hang with some pals. And then as the day went on yesterday, it was, oh, yeah, we used to play on the same ultimate team.

And now we go up to his house. And remember that time we were, it was just a constant and steady stream of your former buddies coming by. It's like, okay. So this is the Pinder reunion 2024 with a splash of flames content. Yeah, we found an excuse to get paid to come hang out with my pals. No, you know what? I don't live. I don't enjoy your binary worldview.

I don't know what you do. What? You can see old pals and also have a very good work trip that makes sense to do it. Sure. But we are. And so I'm going to send you and Pike next year. Yeah. All right.

Or not. Sounds good. Because getting back to the original point, I was wondering how you were doing. Because when I first saw you this morning, you kind of came into the, I was having breakfast and you came into the restaurant. I said like sunglasses and I dumped my sandwich all over my pants. I don't know where my phone is. So I just figured left the room and my phone. Like everything was where it was supposed to be.

I just, I left the room like three times without having everything I need. Yeah. So you left your brain. And then I went to my favorite little breakfast spot up the hill and waited in line to get a delicious egg witch. Yeah. And I just like ate it. And the first bite just flew out the back and landed right in my pants.

My path one of those days. But we're back. We're fixed. Burgers. We sure are. We sure are. We are here in all, all jesting aside. at the Young Stars Classic, which opened yesterday with a pair of games.

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they were running around. They were spinning around, I think, shell-shocked a bit. An older Jets Club was playing a little bit of a key boy and it just was like, oh, looked a bit like that. For a moment there, it was like, this could get really out of hand. What was it? Two goals, like moments apart. Yeah, it was two, two nothing jets in the first period. And it looked like it was maybe going to be one of those long afternoons or evenings, however you want to look at it. But they did settle.

in. Trent call, coach of the, the Wrangler said afterwards, you kind of expect that. It's a new group. They've not played together. They're excited. They're wearing the jerseys for the first time. There's going to be some, you know, some, what are you getting there? Butterflies, that sort of a thing. But I thought that they,

they settled in really well and would end up tying the game and then went down three to two, then tied it again, and it went to overtime. And we'll talk about that. Take a look at the goals here. Now, Sam Morton, who we kind of, we've having fun of here. Hank Corton. Sam, Sam, Sounds like a Dr. Suske.

Guy off of Yellowstone. He got them going. Now, he is one of the older. 25 years of age. So he goes for the pass across there. It goes off, escape back to him. And he bangs it in. And a nice little fine since he has put up some points at the end of last season after

he joined the Wranglers with the American Hockey League. And again, when you're that much older, but still, there was a lot of poise. It was pretty clear. that he was very comfortable in that setting. To put things in perspective, when he was like, let's say, Zane Perrick's age,

Zane Perrick would have been like 10 or 11. So he's significantly older than these eight players they've brought from this summer draft class in Vegas. And so impressive game. If you're a 25-year-old that's played four years of college and then, you know, a significant role down the stretch in an HL regular season of playoffs,

you probably should be better than a lot. of these guys and look and be able to assert yourself he had a really good game i thought he was he was her best player he was i agree he was centering a line with william strong grin who's also all of a sudden he's a little bit of an older guy here as well and uh matt bay gridden gridden we got it from uh brenda parker flames dot com gridden so we're going to go with it until we're told differently but that was their their top line so moving on so they make it two to one then they would tie it and this one took a little while to figure oh well whose whose goal is this What is, because there's a pass out in front and Hunter Bristewicz.

Wires. Who's been at this tournament before, but was a Kinnock when he was here last time. There you see the shot right to the slot. He pinches in. And it looked like it was a direct shot, shot in a goal for Bristewicz. But replays would suggest that it went off the stick. See, I was behind that net and I thought for sure that went off laying stick and in. Yeah.

And I think they did at the time it was Bristavich, but I think that credit has gone to Lang. You know, as they go really got a figure. out who's got these goals who's who's who's deserving the credit here and and lang is a guy we'll talk about in a little bit but i uh got some things out of bloodlines you know he's you want it you want these guys be in the fabric of the game be involved and he was involved in a lot of it you see there the guy six five let's say it's six six in some place yeah so he's a big dude so that tied it up and then uh jaden lopinski would would tie it one more time and you

talk about parrick who we will talk plenty about plenty today i was sitting with parker and i said you don't need to ever tell him to jump into the play. So here goes, there's the fort. And here comes Perrick up the right side, right in front of the net. And as the puck goes in the net here, they're short-handed. They're on a penalty kill. And their defenseman is right at the top of the crease below the goal line. But Lipinski makes a nice move there as he cuts back to the,

to the middle of the net and tucks it in on the millage. We played all 60-plus minutes yesterday. It's, you know, you hear about Zane Perrick and then you see him and he is exactly as advertised. This is an offensive wizard that definitely knows what end of the rink his bread is buttered at. Yeah, he's not too concerned about getting back because he has that ability and loves to jump into the play. High risk, high reward, however you want to characterize it, but you got to see a lot of it yesterday. So that would tie the game. And then they would go to overtime and they controlled the puck for pretty much the entire overtime frame.

until it was over. We mentioned Zane Perrick. You'll get to see his involvement again. Or Zane. There's a winning goal coming up, but it's, so here is Perrick at the top of your screen, and then gets pressed by a couple of jets and turns the puck over. Two on O.

And it's how the game ends. I thought Murphy's going to get over and get that. He really made a good attempt on that two on O. And Perrick just tried to make a move. It didn't work, but here is what we, why players develop. Okay. in the OHL, he can probably get away with that.

He just found out that against guys that are going to play in the American League this year, that's got to be done quicker with more authority or you can't do it at all. And so I think people are just like, oh my gosh, rich reward. You're like, this guy's trying, he's playing at a higher level.

And not everything that worked at a lower level is going to work. Not everything's going to translate. But I will bet on the vision and skill of this player all the time. And I don't really care that he had two major gaffes and was on the ace for a couple against. I was really impressed when he helped. the puck, he would show something, move his opponent around, and then go somewhere else with the hole he just created. So if he's a right shot, if he's got the puck here,

and he wants you to think he's passing there, everything says he's going that way. And then he pulls it back and slides it over because he's just moved the defender the opposite direction. Deception, vision, and just an ability to move some of the other chest pieces on the board. It's through the roof. He's going to be an incredibly exciting player to watch. I mean, I hate the big name comparison sometimes, but it just feels like Eric Carlson Light. Like a guy that's just wildly offensively talented, that there's going to be a lot of defensive. Yeah, that's not what he's great at.

It's funny you mentioned that name. It was exactly who I was thinking of. Because as you're watching the game, it's like, okay, so now we're watching him shift. You could put your ISO cam, your mental cam and just watch him play now. Who is this guy? It feels a lot like Eric Carl. Yes. And that's a great thing.

That's a superstar that's probably, what, a first ballot hall of famer? That's a guy that will go down as one of the highest scoring defenseman in the history. the league. Is he a perfect player? No. Has he played on a lot of very good teams? Yes, he has. He is a superstar. He is a guy that sells tickets. He's a guy that is a massive offensive catalyst. If Zane Perrick can be Eric Carlson-Light, this is a home run of a draft pick at number nine. And there's obviously the offensive side. You can see how well he skates and how he performs. But there was just some other instances where there was a hard four check coming. He's coming below the goal and there's pressure on him. So, okay, how are you going to, how are you going to handle

and it's a nifty spin, like a button hook, and then passes it to the far blue line, banks it off the boards and hits the player in stride. It's like, okay, that's a high-end, high-end play there. That's some high-end skill. So, I mean, as advertised, as we get into our impressions on individuals from the games, Zane Perrick had everything you've heard of, and it does make you think that this is, find the right pairing, find the right spot. But there is just, there's tons of skill there.

And it's about shaping it as he moves on in his career. Yeah. And so a guy who has 96 points in the Ontario Hockey League is a 17 year old. He's going to go and try to do historic things in that league this year. And then it's probably, it'd almost be disappointed if he didn't break with the flames the year after because he's not allowed to go to the H.O. That's silly CHL agreement for 19-year-old players. But I think it's like this time next year where you're, you know, we'll see the rest of this tournament.

training camp, but it's taking a job next year at this time. That's the kind of trajectory this, this caliber of player is on. It's a very different trajectory than some of the other first rounders they've had, and we'll get to those in a moment, but make no mistake. This is the top prospect in the organization. This is the highest skill player they have,

and this is the guy with the highest potential of being a star they've gotten their entire system. Other impressions, I've got kind of a list put together. We can kind of run through them. I liked Henry Mews, who was their third rounder yesterday. Now, of the, they drafted 10, players in June at the 2024 entry draft and seven of them played in this game yesterday. So you

talk about how it was a young group. They, uh, they were 18 and older, but there were a lot of 18 year olds. Henry Muse, Ottawa 67's defenseman, six foot, 183 pounds is listed. Again, it changes because they're kids, but had 61 points and 65 games as a 17, 18 year old in the in the, in the OHL. He was all over this game. I was, I had no expectation because, Okay, Stromgren, Perrick, Ponzik, you had your short list, Gridden guys that you're going to watch, didn't really know what to think.

He stood out from the start and I thought was impressive the entire game. Incredibly poised. And again, you're looking at guys that have played at the junior level and not higher than that. And how are they going to perform

against a Jets Club that has a lot of invites to essentially earn jobs in the American League? These are older guys. You're playing against grown men. It's not, you know, 16 to 19-year-olds, which the competition is,

primarily in the Canadian Hockey League. And I thought in the first period, a lot of those guys were it was their first level of playing against, you know, men struggled a bit with it. Muse was consistently poised. And you talked about herrick curling away from pressure and, you know, avoiding, like that was Muse all night. It was just really smart plays and staying out of trouble and just poised under pressure.

I was really impressed. And down the right, you can see what Connie's building here where, you know, at the NHL level, you've got four of your six defensemen are righties. Wigger plays the left. Miramano's a righty. Rasmus Anderson's a righty. Pahal's a righty.

Tyson Barry will see what happens. He's a righty. But in the pipeline, you now have Perrick, who will be an absolute mainstay on the right side of the flames to Blinn. Bristevich, another right side defense. And I can hear him you is another right side or so.

If you can find some steady lefties to go with these offensive ceiling righties, it's quite impressive that right shot defensemen are hard to get. If you look at the flames organization, you would not realize that. Yeah. So again, and one of the calling cards from the draft was they went with skill.

Yeah, they got on skill. And I think, I don't want to get any closer to you. I got some shade on my big forehead. Anyway, but that's one thing we definitely saw was some of that skill level and Mews was in there. You know, Andrew Basha, I said yesterday when we were doing our thing. I said, I was find somebody who's maybe a bit of a beauty. Who's somebody that wants to kind of muck it up? Maybe want to get in there.

Bashar was that guy. I thought Siona is also that guy. On Basha, before we move on, I hadn't seen a play before, which shame on me, he's made a medicine hat. He's a Glenn Lake kid, like he's grown up in Calgary. But you hear a lot of things, the attributes. And you're always trying to envision how a player plays when you read scouted reports. And you get a sense of like, okay, like he's high energy. But to see it, like every shift he shot out of a cannon, he plays fearless, he's physical, he's got great skill.

And then he had an incredible shift in the ozone where he saw. spun around a bunch of defenders and wheeled around the zone and created chances to open up teammates. They're like, this guy's going to be a fan favorite. Like, I don't know where he settles on an NHL roster, but he's an incredibly exciting player that plays with very high pace and intensity,

afraid of nothing. I think he's going to be an absolute fan favorite, Calgarian and plays a way you can't help with love. There wasn't a lot of rough stuff. I mean, they never really got close. But if there was a scrum or something happening in front of the net or at the side of the goal, Basha was there.

Yeah, he got his bucket lifted in front of the Jetsnet at one point. Or Siona was running a guy through the end boards. I mean, physical. Siona, Bell, and I'd say Lange, they were sort of your big oxes that tried to get involved physically. There was some pretty heavy hitting game. But yeah, there was only one chance for it really to get nasty. And it was the big defenseman Yermot who played a physical game in front. Someone took exception to him being where he was.

And I thought, okay, if there's a chance for a tilt, this is. it right here, Yeramo declined. He's an interesting one because I didn't love what he did with the puck, but I loved his physicality and you noticed him every shift. There's some other guys you didn't. You mentioned Hunter Lang. Walk us through the

again, you've got to be a pretty deep flames fan, I would think, to appreciate the bloodlines. But kind of, what is the story about this guy? So Hunter Lang's dad is Quintan Lang. He had a significant run with the capitals. He, I think, blocked

to shot with his face and he's still got, you know, you could see some scarring there. He was a folk hero in Washington for a while in the early Ovechkin days. He was brought in later in his career and he was the captain of the Abbotsford Heat when they were the Flames HL affiliate. So leader from Saskatchewan, big strong, you know,

centerman or winger, like, you know, those just, you know, a prairie boy ox that you can trust to do all the right things. And he was a captain and, you know, would know a bunch of the guys in the organization. And he's an assistant coach in Colonna now for the Rock. So we got to see a lot of T. Jiginla and interned Jerome last year.

So he's got all these tie-ins with the Flames organization. And sure enough, late in the draft in Vegas, his kid Hunter, who played in Prince George's year. And they had an absolute monster of a team, including like Parasek, who was an incredible first year player that got drafted very high this year. But like, there he is. He's now, of course, it's the Flames organization for another Lang. And I know that he's not a household name in Calgary.

But if you were following the farm team, it would be when the Berchi, Boma, Brody types were on the farm. Furland, Quentin Lang was their captain. And now his kid is in the organization and he's a monster. Yeah, we talked to, we had a chance to talk with Craig Conroy briefly after the game. He was going back in to watch the second game of the night. But we were much like this, guys that were impressive or stood out. And I thought Hunter Lang definitely was one of those guys.

And he said, this was, this was kind of a Jerome guy. Because like you say, Jerome, being in Polona last year, watched a lot of Western League hockey, knew Quentin and because of this guy. So they took him in the sixth round with, again, 6-5-6-6. Big, big dude. And again, he's one of those guys. Okay, be a role guy for this team in a few years down the road. But oddly, for a sixth rounder, he was one of the guys that definitely stood out.

Tipped that puck, I think, from Brestevich, and it was physical. And you can see, that's what he's going to be. They cleared out a few of their more veteran guys in Prince George had loaded up. I think they were the best team in that. in that conference by a ways in the Western League this year. So there'll be a little more room and ice for him there. And it's an intriguing guy because of his size. I don't know what the ceiling is,

but maybe you got a bang and crash bottom of the roster type guy if things go off. Hey, Ard, you can bring those drinks in. We're not so fancy. Honestly, you can like that a professional. That's, bringing in a coffee and a water in the shot is going to put a saw. To start the game, as we work through, the pairing of Bristevich and Grishnikov.

Yep. Oh, preish. So nice. Yeah. Running around a little bit for these two. And that's going to happen. They have not played together. It's in first game, this sort of thing.

But it was clear that neither really knew where the other was going and they got caught. And then, you know, Fox ended up going in. They split them. But much like the game for the entire flames, I thought both guys got better as the game went on. Now, two guys that were brought in in high profile deals involving the flames this year. Thoughts on not so much the pair, I guess, but both guys. I thought Bristavich struggle to the first, like most of the team did, especially the younger guys. A couple of miscues and turnovers.

Grushnikov's turnover led to the first goal, if I'm correct, where he kind of lost it on the wall, made the wrong play, and slammed his stick, was frustrated. I feel for Grishnikov because everyone is just going to throw this Krista Anav label on him because, of course, A, he's traded for the guy, and B, he's a stay-at-home physical defenseman that doesn't put up a lot of points. and it's just a really high bar for anyone to be measured by. You're talking about one of the best shutdown defensemen in the NHL. And I sort of see a lot of leadership qualities here,

a hard worker and someone that's willing to put his body on the line, he'd be to block in front. But that doesn't mean that he's going to turn into a top four defenseman in the NHL. It's a very hard thing to do with the player of his profile, with almost no offense at any level coming up. Chris Tanna was a half point per game defenseman in the NCAA. And so I just, I fear for him for those comparisons, but you can see what he is.

And at worst, I think you've got a really rock solid, wear a letter, AHL, tough defensemen. Yeah. And it's not about putting ceilings on guys, but you're right. It's just kind of... It's tough when you're traded for that guy, right?

What's the word? Is it, uh, like, is it a coincidence? I don't know that it is a shot blocker, rear guard, stay at home guy who was traded for much the same. But to your point,

you know, Chris Tanev. Very, very, very good at what he does. There was a lot of, there was, he was not a guy that struggled to put up points or was at this age yeah so uh but again got better as the game went on and i uh i did like his physicality he was tough in front of the net did a lot of blocking shots uh brucevech once he once he's yeah once he settled in you could start to see where that offensive ability yeah is starting with it's not quite the zane peric no you know

3d chess level but you can see that this is a guy they can zip that puck around with pace authority and catch teams sort of chasing what he's trying to do. I like them as the game on on for sure, tough first period. And then, yeah, those are the start names I had. Morton was your best player. He's 25. And then it was Restevich, Mews, and Perrick,

the right side of the defense that are all very, very intriguing prospects. And do you want to talk about Gridden a bit? Because I love Bash. But Gridden showed flashes of like, oh, yeah, there's some high end here. Gridon played on that line with Strong Grin and Morton. So that was going to help him a little bit.

And it was actually Parks that brought that up. You're going to have Morton doing a lot of the heavy lifting and some of the dirty work for him. So he's going to be allowed. I don't know how to, has that kind of European feel to him to me. Just watching the way, just the way he skates, the way he cuts in. He's a high skill guy, but none of that skill really translated into anything in terms of scoring chance, I didn't think. He fanned on a couple, but you were waiting for that great scoring chance to come as a result of it. It just didn't seem to happen.

Yeah. I mean, he's 18 years old. but I did see some of those flashes where, okay, this is a guy that his stock, draft stock went up as the year went on. And then it was not a surprise where the flames took him. And I think they slid Hansek into that line as well. Yeah, they moved a bunch of guys.

And that's what you're going to see today. I know Jack's got it. Steinberg's over at skate this morning with a bunch of, so the other local media, Steinberg. Singing Eminem. Texted me at two in the morning. My gosh. But it looks like it'll be Hansick with Morton and Stromgren on the right.

as the top lines, whatever you want to call it. Misa, Siona, and Bash of the second line, Lepensky, Bataglia, and Gridden on the third line. And then McNamara comes in. He's the only guy that is sort of an invite here amongst the forward group to play with Parker Bell and Quentin Lang, the two drafted big boys, flanking him. We haven't talked about it. We probably should.

I was waiting to see Sam Hansik. I was still waiting to see. Sam R.M. And Lepinski, we talked about. Before we go, Stronggren, just the thought on him. While they were struggling in the first, while it was a slow start, I thought he was fine from the start. He was the guy that was noticeable to me the entire game.

Yeah, and he should be, right? Like, we're talking about a guy that's significantly older than a lot of these other forwards. Like, what is he, a 21 draft pick? Like, it's, he's not the Vegas draft. He's not the Nashville draft. He is a guy that, you know, has got a full season of American League hockey under a spell. This is not a young man playing against men.

It's a guy that played against men last year. And you can see what's tantalizing about him, because he's got this great reach and some good offensive instincts. Kind of not unlike a gridden, there were some plays I kept waiting for it to happen. And he's like, ah, just lost it. It clipped the skate. And we tried to, but you can see why he's able to create highlight real goals with that big reach and, you know, huge frame and offensive skill, skates well.

He's an intriguing one for me because I'd love to see him at the NHL level, but because you score a highlight real goal does not mean, you know, you do that once a month doesn't mean you played 10 good games that month. I wonder about that if he can impact the game regularly enough to be an NHL. I was thinking about this coming in. So we're going to do this show. We're going to talk about these prospects.

So how they look? Well, you had three periods of hockey. You had one game and extra with overtime. So what are they? How good are they? What are they going to make the NHL? It feels ridiculous to sit here and kind of tell you. But based on what we saw yesterday, I was, you know, better skater maybe, I think, Stronggren.

Precisely. He's a big dude and he was flying around out there. So whatever that's worth. And again, now to flip the coin, Sam Hansick first round pick, to this point, it's been a disappointment for both for him. There's been injuries. He's not performed as anybody would have hoped. and it was hard to find him at times yesterday. What makes it worse is that he's a late birthday.

So he'll be 20. He's going to be in the American league this year, theoretically. And for a 19-year-old season in the Western League last year, you'd love to see a guy humming around a point and a half per game. It's not everything. We know he's got a big frame. They like his pro body. He works well in the walls, protects the puck's,

like big physical guy. But I just didn't notice him. And that doesn't necessarily mean he was bad, but you'd sure like to notice a guy that you spent a 16th overall pick or whatever. If you went in yesterday and you had a roster and no draft info, no age info, you just realistically, like truthfully, you would have gone well down the list before he would have been a guy that would have stood out to you. Yeah, and look,

he's got two more games to have different performances than that. We'll see if it happens. But if they look like that, it would be concerning. Yeah. And again, the injuries are not to be shrugged, off. They're not his fault. They are really tough in these crucial developmental years when you, you went to the world juniors got hurt two seasons ago. This past season, hurt in camp, comes back,

it's hurt again. You know, that was a guy they would have loved to try down the middle in Vancouver this year in the Western League because he missed so much time. We just can't do this. So now they start him on the wing in this tournament and he's 20 already. It's like, man, this guy's going to be a center. Like, how long does this ship sail before you give up on that? And it feels like that window's closing for him be a centerman. There's the list. of guys who have had a tough start and it's taken time. It's a hundred miles long. The story isn't written,

but to this point, this is not the two-year sample size that you would have. It's not the sample size or what you would have seen. They're totally different players, but there's a lot of parallels with Connor Zerry and what he went through. He was, of course, the famous crotch cam COVID draft where all the parents stand up and then they hug each other.

And so, that COVID thing ruined a lot of the regular season in the Western League where I believe it's Cameloups. And then it's like, okay, he gets hurt in the American League. They just hurt again. You're like, oh, man, like, this is a first rounder. And I believe they traded back a couple times that year. And they really liked Zeri. Like, shoot, this would suck if this didn't work.

And if I asked you last year at this time about Connor Zeri, you're like, yeah, man, I don't know. Like, you just hope he can have a good run in the American League. Well, if he wasn't one of the biggest three stories of the Calvary Flames this year in terms of developments in the roster. Like, it's him and it's posthousal and like what else. I mean, those are some of the best developments the organizations had over the course

of the last year. One of them was Zeri. And just like Hansick, he had two years taken away where either he wasn't 100% or he just missed time playing in these crucial developmental years, it doesn't mean it's not going to work. It just makes it a little bit harder. So that is kind of the, that's kind

of the story from yesterday. It was a young group. You showed the roster for what's coming up today. They're going to play the oily rookies tonight. And much of it is going to be the same. It would be a chance to see some new bodies, some new faces slid in there as well. The goaltending pairing.

It was, and we're trying to figure Ignathev, Ignatju. He looks like he's going to get the go today. Now this is a from Helsinki, I believe. So Finn that I think played in the second Swedish division? Or he played the second Finnish division. He's been both the last two years. They've liked

his numbers. And And yeah, I think, you know, chatting with some people around the team, they're sort of saying, okay, when you come over from Europe to North America, those angles change a little bit. It's the smaller ice, which is not small, but NHL and European, not the same. So does he need a time to adjust to that? How long has he been skating over here? Is he adjusted? We'll see. But they've kind of done well with the undrafted Europeans and late round draft flyers on goalies at Eastern Europe.

I mean, I think if David Riddick was assigning out of the Czech Republic that no one knew who he was, came in. They turned him into an asset at one. point and then you know they've had some hits in later rounds they've got a nice stable of russian defenseman and there it is goalie of the year in the finished second division and the swedish second division in consecutive years i was right thank you pike that's pike bomb pike bomb verifying pinder love it love it uh because i was definitely talking to my ass there for a bit uh really we'll see toolsy right couldn't tell yeah you couldn't tell at all second division both leagues so we are uh we're continuing here from the uh the barking parrot bar here on the patio beautiful

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It's that time of year. Jeez, this doesn't fit anymore. Had done a pro skate their new location just off 40, just off Blackfoot on. 42nd Southeast. Old Frank Sisson's location. PSScalgary.com. We mentioned some business. Craig Conroy is here in Penticton,

but got some, a little bit of business. Now, I guess, whatever, we started trickle out a couple days ago and then made official, I guess, yesterday that Jacob Pellcii

coming to terms on another contract, re-upping with the flames. There's the details from Ryan Pike. Other pike bomb. Geez, wow. Fire here. 800 grand is the NHL salary. It's a small H.

salary in terms of $100,000, but it's the floor is $165. If he bounces around, he can't make less than that. I don't worry about the America League salary dean because Jacob Pellier requires waivers this year. This is not the type of player that is going to slide through waivers. He will be taken by another team because he was drafted in the first round, all the things he was good at then, he is still good at now. And aside for some bad injury luck, I think he's the type of guy.

A team would love to see get onto waivers and punish the team that placed him there. the down money, I think is a non-issue here. The real question is, where does Jacob Pellche fit into the, you know, 13 or 14 forwards? The flames are going to carry. And Ryan Huska is going to, you know, throw out together. Yeah. Like, I think you've kind of made that clear. But, but so it's a one-way deal.

It's a two-way deal. And for the player and the agent, you always want a one-way deal. Sure. I want to be making the same money. I don't want to go to the American Hockey League, for starters. And if I do, I want to be making my NHL money. I want to be making big money. But to your point, it's kind of less of a situation for him because it sure does feel like if they're in a situation where they want to send him to the American Hockey League, they can't just do it now without him having to clear waivers.

And to your point, I feel like there'd be a number of teams. Take away what his points are. This is a first round talent. Free kick of the tires. It's making a good to scoop this guy. So the flames are in danger of losing him on waivers anyway. So it's kind of in their best interests, I guess, for the. player to perform well and for him to stay at the NHL well.

I remember when he got hurt, it was the shoulder issue in camp last year, whether it was preseason or camp, I can't remember, but you were like, man, this is tough. Like, you know, this is, this is a big year for him and it's going to keep them out probably to the new year. That's tough. And I was kind of like, yeah, no, you know, it just, that's happens. He'll be fine.

But the more I think about it, like, here you are now with waivers. Wouldn't it have been nice to have that last year to establish what you are at the NHL level? And you didn't really get that chance. And so when you come back midseason, you know, it's not like you're, you're in camp, and you've won a job. You're now trying to figure out where this piece fits that you haven't had for six months of the season

if you're Ryan Huska. And I don't think it would be a good year for Peltier to, to, I guess, fall flat. You need to have a good camp. I'd love to see him earn a role in the top nine. Or maybe you could see Huska run a younger, sort of interesting fourth line that maybe you have a Coronado and a pospice on or something.

But I want to see this guy with skill. I'd like to see him in significant minutes. the dream scenario for me, if you wanted to ask, how do you develop Jacob Pellci into a great NHL player or to reach his potential as an NHL player? I put him with Backlin and Coleman. It's fit the profile of how he's played his whole career in terms of a responsible two-way guy with a little bit of offense.

And we've seen so many young players, whether it's Manjipani, Kachuk, others, that you go onto Backland's line, and within a year or two, they can seemingly graduate into a higher spot in the lineup, and they're playing the game the right way. you're looking at if you're watching on youtube right now you can see his uh his bio if you want to call it that he's very quickly turned into a 23 year old guy right this is not a kid anymore he was

picked in the 2019 draft 26th overall and you can see it there he comes out of comes out of junior great numbers and then his 22 23 season point per game guy in the age essentially in the hl that tells me you're ready to graduate if you're a forward and you're a point per game player and he's known to be good away from the puck like it's time to graduate Yeah. Problem being last year was the step back. Two good years. And then last year, it's the shoulder injury, almost feels, and then his numbers also were not as good. They were not good at even in the American Hockey League.

And we've talked to it. Is he play a little bit timid when he came back? Was he not quite the same player? You can understand it. Now you're playing to not get hurt. You're not thinking about, maybe you're not thinking about making plays. You're thinking about avoiding contact if it, if it's all possible. And to refresh people, he's hurt and he comes back.

And one of his first games, what happens? Yeah, you got clunk. Jacob Truba squares him up and clunks him and he's, you know, not hurt significantly again, but he's hurt again. So would you understand the human nature of maybe not playing the way you'd like to play for the remainder of that year with all that that's happened? I hope it's a fresh start for him and that he looks a lot more like the 22, 23 version. And what's interesting too and interesting, unfortunate is I thought,

thought he had a really good camp and preseason until he got injured last year. I know talking with with Huska and Craig, they were this, this guy is looking like he's going to take another step from that point per game guy in the HL. He's going to be an everyday NHLer and then and then that happens. So it's, it's a weird one in one way you would think,

okay, because of the waiver situation and that, he's maybe got a bit of an edge over some other guys who can just easily be sent into the American League. So that's, you know, to his benefit. But at the same time, there's,

they've drafted so many guys. the last couple of years. There's... Coronado. And it's like he's not a Lomburg. And you sign Lomburg for a reason. And he's not a center. And Kevin Rooney is.

And maybe Pospicil can be a center. We'll see. It's quite interesting. I don't think I can build a lineup where both Coronado and Pellche are in the top nine. Because you didn't bring in Manta to put him on the fourth line. You're not going to do that to Huwardo because as bad as it got last year, they never did it.

And like, sorry, everyone else is a bona fide top nine player at this. And that's with... not a fourth liner. So one of these two kids, Pelche in a monster year and Coronado in a first full NHL season, remember last year's his first year out of college. He splits it between the American League and NHL. You know, up and down results in the NHL, very strong HR results, which is what you want to see from a guy that was at Harvard a year prior. Point per game in the American league, he's ready to move up. Can you satisfy both the needs for Pelche and Coronado to develop and get the minutes? It's going to be interesting to see how they build these lines.

And that's with Mangapani gone. Correct. That was one of the things we talked to. There's just so many guys. You've got to move some bodies out. We know what happened with Dylan Dube. They move out Andrew Mangapani. And still, you have to kind of squint a little bit to find where Jacob Pellche fits in here.

But hopefully his play will take care of that. So that's the, the NHL story. I'm not sure what else if there is big club. Obviously, all the guys, the coaches, scouts, everybody is here. Jerome is here. given Conroy the details on how things should be done from the sounds of it yesterday. Jerome just letting Craig what he should be looking for. I think we should do this.

I don't know, Jerome. He had to draft this blanket. Okay, Jeremy. This guy, yeah. We're going golfing Craig. Okay, that sounds good too. So for today, it's going to be the Flames and the Oilers. That's an 830 game a little bit later.

It'll be on Calgary Flames.com. Roster, because there's only so many bodies, very, very, very, very, similar to what you saw yesterday. Hurtigel coming. They're going to move some guys in. McNamara comes in and it'll be Gnachu and Net, not Murphy, he'll get the day off. And Radomsky will be the backup.

Yeah. Or Harvard's supposed to say his name. He had a cup of coffee with the Wranglers. Of note for the Oilers, it'll be the Matthew Savoy appearance. He's 20. He's torched the Western League. He's not huge. Can he carve out a role

on an NHL forward group that does not have young talent? There is one forward on the Oilers roster, not named Connor, Leon under 30. They need guys on entry levels to contribute. He's got three years left on his entry level. If Savoy wants to be an impactful player, it will be a huge piece for the oilers because they don't have a pipeline.

You know, it's a bottom five system in the league and rightfully so. They trade a lot of picks to try to win. They don't have first round pick this summer. They're probably going to trade their first as time goes by. They still need the top four. The Savoy deal was one where it's like, you take him a cloud who might be a lesser player, but we know he's an NHL commodity. We'll take a guy that maybe could give us production on an entry level

because that's how it's going to be. If you're going to keep Connor somehow with Leon and Bouchard, who's probably an $11 million defense minute, he's going to go 100 points like he looked like he could do in the playoffs. Now you need guys producing at league minimum or entry level deals. Savoy could be that. We'll see tonight what he looks like. Oiler rookies played Vancouver last night.

They fell by a score of 2-0. Also here is their first rounder. I don't really O'Reilly. They made the move and then Sam O'Reilly came in. Yeah. Could have got this guy a little bit later.

Anyway, they liked them clearly because they didn't have a first and they traded this year's first to get that pick in Vegas, which is odd. I mean, when you look at how they've used their first, I thought the best use of their first they've had in the last few years

was swapping it out for Matias Ackholm. Like how different is that blue line looks since they brought them in? Yeah. They now, it was like, okay, now you have a legit top pair. I would think that, you know, the philosophy, like the penguins have done,

it's like when you're in your window to contend, use your first to bring in impactful pieces that can help your roster. They need a top four defense. They have three top four defensemen. They don't have that first. So we'll see what happens. Maybe it's like Vegas and they'll trade a first a few years down the line. We'll trade you the 2024 or the 2026.

If we don't trade the 2024. We saw that with the Hanifan deal. But it's, yeah, they could use some young talent there. Caducks were actually very good in this game. They hit a couple of posts, Arsh Deep Baines.

Very good H. They've got some good. some good players. Of course, we're going to see them take on the flames on whatever day it is, Monday. Today's Saturday, right? Monday. Is that how that goes? I thought yesterday was Saturday. And just other things from that now, Jaden Grub, former Calgary Buffalo. Oh, nice. He is with this Oilers team. And there was one, there was one scrap, at least one scrap that I saw yesterday, involving, as Rhett would say, the son of Reginald Corbett. Wow. That's right. Nate Corby, who plays with the Medicine Hat Tigers, was brought here by the Oilers. and he got into a shooting the old dukes yesterday with the conducts uh prospect did all right did all right

for old that's just another reason to go watch medicine hat when they come play the hitman i mean you've got mckenna you know bashes there this year now reginald sure reginald sun uh not to mention others that's an exciting crew if they have uh you know the the Columbus high draft pick that was so highly touted uh fourth overall i mean uh lindstrick adelae lindsrae carid lindsrall are yeah like it's just like I'm immediately looking at the calendar to drag my snot nose kids to watch the tigers this year. I'm excited. I'll hold you to it.

Yeah. We'll hold you to it. So again, that's Flames Oilers tonight, 830. Check it out on Calgary Flames.com. Now, as far as this show for tomorrow is concerned, we've been a bit of a little loosey as far as a start time. And it's probably okay. It's the weekend for you.

You come in and you watch it. You download it. You watch it whenever. But as far as watching it live. the reason we're kind of staying a little flimsy is we're hoping to either have some members of the flames join us here or we can go somewhere and join them. But it is an off day for them and it's beautiful and there's golf and there's all kinds of things going on. It's vineyards. Yeah, I don't know.

Yeah. So moving target, I guess you could call it. Are we taking an off day or we got to do a show? Well, I mean, what time is it here? It's almost done this show and then there's the rest of the day. Yeah. That's true. We should do a show.

maybe RJ, can we set up one of those vineyards on the Naramata bench? Yeah. You sip some pinos while we Now, again, are you supposed to swallow? Are you supposed to drink it or just spit it? You do what you're comfortable with. I'll be swallowing.

I've heard that about you. All right, get us up, whatever day it was the other day, Thursday, Tuesday, Tuesday. One of these days, we had Mike Norris in studio. And there he is. Insane, human. 225 kilometers on foot running in four days.

four day period, raising money for the firefighters assistance charitable society. And I thought about him on Thursday as it poured rain the entire day. Not just for a little bit. Just steady all day. I woke up and I saw it raining. I went to bed. It was still raining. That was the day.

Yeah. I had to get something from my vehicle. I didn't do it. I'm like, oh, I'm going to get all wet. I've got to go all the way to the driveway to get this out of the truck. I'll just wait until it stops raining. And then it just didn't stop. When it rains, what I realize is like, if you look at Vancouver, you got all the gear.

You got the jacket, you got the umbrella, you got the shoes that are water. We don't have any of that shit in the car. He's like, what are we doing when it rains? You just wait inside until it's done. That whole day, it just rained. And that day, I think we've got like, you know those apps that like follow your running and stuff? Mike posted this. Do I have the app that follows me running?

Well, you know them. This is not Thursday. This, I believe was Friday. But on Thursday, I meant if the date's wrong, he labels this morning run, distance 61.9 kilometers. in that rain, Dane. Gosh. Six hours and 28 minutes of running. And if you can see on the screen the map of Calgary,

he starts way up at the north, gets halfway to Chestermere, essentially kind of loosely follows the Bow River all the way down the south, around the bottom south of the city, and then comes back up towards McLeod Trail. 61.9 kilometers he ran. That was day one.

In under six and a half hours. Oh. So you know how my math is. So it's going 100 kilometers now? Six minutes, 17 seconds per clock. I feel like that's a pretty good clip. That would be a good clip for us to punch out two kilometers. That's a lot.

And then that was, so it was Thursday. What about Friday? Well, Friday took it a little easier, just 54.23 kilometers. Wow. And look at that pace, slowing down. Jeez. Slowing down there. So those were days one and two.

Today is day three. and tomorrow will be day four for Mike. Make sure you head over to nationgear.ca. And you can click on the Flames Nation fundraiser or auction, I believe, is the tab. When you're there, you'll see a Michael Backland signed jersey. That's up to $375. Travis Kineckney stick.

That's up to $125. Adam Klopka, game-worn, Ranglers, Jersey, $150 there. Lowry, a lousy player. Best Twitter handle in the league. $125. bucks. I mean, Kevin Shattonkirk's done. I was going to say, I thought it was Shatton. Is he done? Thought he was playing. I might get a PTO

in Edmonton, Sir, well, Alaska, Big Bad Bob Stoffer when we see him today. Game used, hockey six signed by Brett Sutter, the former Wrangler's captain and current assistant coach, he's here. And four tickets to a Rangler's home game. That's a great item. Pick your game. You just got to give him a couple weeks notice. Let's get those bids up. It's all going

to FACS, the firefighters, assistance charitable society and a huge tip of the cap to Mike who is a certified insane human so help him out help the firefighters help him help the the firefighters assistants charitable society um so what time is it here just so it's 12 15 12 like it's 20 what is up for your day uh the vs play at three i want to go see the old junior squad for a bit are they playing Hokotokes? No, it's a preseason game and I think they got

Salmon Arm? Is it salmon out? Silverbacks? Salmonum. That sounds right, because I know they were talking to the I think I saw the silverbacks logo in the gentleman whoopty do there.

Ladies and gentlemen, your home team, the Penticton viz. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hunter Bristillo's so you're going to go watch some afternoon hockey. Probably.

I want to get to I'll vacuous for that sandwich, I promised you. Mm-hmm. Yeah, how hungry. Well, I see it in the, in the chat to get the veckios. Bill Vex is nuts good. Oh,

fun is perfect. And then he was saying there was, what Lacochina was the other one. I'd hate to have to do both. We still got three days left here. There's Jay Money on the on the chat. I've puked right there before right where your feet are. Out of boy, Jay.

Oh boy, Jay. I can understand how that would happen. You know, you're just very calm and quiet right now. This was a very different vibe last night at midnight here, I can assure you. Yeah. Where are you boys at? I'm in town to see the tournament. Wouldn't mind stop. by to say hello sorry rodney can't tell you don't need you coming by here rodney the staff at the

barking parrot patio don't need hangers on and ruffians floating around the broadcast rodney stay wherever the hell you're at appreciate you watching and listening stay away from the lakeside resort casino don't come any closer look at the hat look at the hat yeah i know a lot of hats they've got a convention there's a big uh it's a hindoo blue hair convention going on here they all wear their red hats and white stuff. Yeah. Fascinators? I don't know what that is. It's a lot of compression socks. Hocodots and stripes.

Liver spots going on. Octanarians. I remember when Defenbaker. Okay. Old birds smell weird. They just smell weird. I said yesterday. Smell like the 40s. Some of the 40s small like.

Smells like old encyclopedias and feet. With just a hint of there's candy. Yeah. And some pit. Some, just, you couldn't quite get all of the, the armpit covered, you know, because your joints, I'm sure, kind of lock up. So you only get to maybe about here, but then all this under here

is kind of, uh, neglected with the pit stick. I'm just glad we're aging so gracefully, the two of us. So good. I smelled terrific. I feel awesome. Yeah, you do. You look, you look awesome. Thanks, buddy. Smell awesome.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you're going to see the Vs. I think so, yeah. I saw my buddy Murray Maxwell, who I was jacked with. He's like the biggest celebrity in town, big Merr. Was that, uh, I took the photo with it? That's right. Oh, yeah.

Murray is the man, the legend, the icon here in town, been working and helping out the V's for like 30, 40 years, back when it was the Knights and the Panthers. You've seen it all. So I'd say it's been great to get back here and see him. Now I've got to see the team play preseason. It's interesting as, uh, I'm, I'm here with him and meeting these people that run with him back in the day. The stories are the exact same.

I think they're a little. It's just water and boats rather than like high kicking at the ship. You know, it's stupid drunken booze fueled stupidity. Just in different points. High kicking and all the dumb stuff that you do. It's been with you for years. So I'm glad to know that it's not just the Calgary thing. But it's just, it's really who you are.

I was explaining to you last night that I'm still me even when I leave Calgary. I don't become a. different me. Yeah. Yeah, that's clear. Kind of how that. Yeah. I was also my 20. Remember the time we took the boat and then it got, we blew the, oh boy. All right. I mean, hey, good, good, good stuff. Good job. Thanks, man. Good for you. Presenting sponsors of our

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Did they get winter here? It's a different kind of winter. We were hearing the horror stories. Apparently all the, what do they call it, the grapes? The grapes, there's almost no grapes from the Okanagan. There's not going to be a 2024 vintage because of how cold it got last winter. And what was it called? The tree fruits?

All the tree fruits had really rough harvests as well. The pit fruit. Pitford, yeah. So peaches and plums. Plums. I had a plum tree in my backyard here. Did you? You walk out to work out of a plum.

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Watch the flames take on the oilers. And then tomorrow we will do it again from roughly this area, depending, uh, weather permitting. And we will, uh, it'll be the Sam Hansick Revenge game, as he's He's watching the show alive, just absolutely boiling and turning into anger. Hey, Patrick tonight tonight. We're hoping. It does great, buddy. It's only good things.

If he can get a little bit more into the fabric of the game, get himself right into it. Kind of like you. Right into everything. Oh, I should tell you, there's some celebrity settings. So the Bark and Parrot at night, it's like lovely patio, blue hairs out here today enjoying breakfast. But as it gets later, and as it gets later, and has that, the sun goes down as the tunes crank up and the DJs start rotating sets. The old dance floor got unbelievable.

Right here? Yeah, right here. And people will verify this. Aaron Vickers from FC Hockey. Vicks. Steinberg from 960 and Francis from Sportsnet. All can verify. We saw Lane Benis on the dance floor tonight, last night, which is exceptional.

And George Kittle was out there ripping it up, which is crazy because he's going to be playing Minnesota tomorrow. Doesn't he have a game? You're supposed to be in Minneapolis. George Kettle and Julia Louis Dreyfus. Elaine Benis was there. I don't know how Julia dances. You never know who you're going to see at the barking parrot.

At the barking parrot. That'll do it. See you, buddies.