Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Noodles Thinks The Flames Have A PLAN… But They Won’t Show It 🤔 | BB Clips

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

Boomer, Pinder and Rhett are joined by TSN’s Noodles as they dig into the Calgary Flames and try to figure out exactly what this team is. The Flames are somehow flirting with a playoff spot while also being dangerously close to the bottom of the standings, and Noodles wonders where everyone stands on what the plan actually is. Do the Flames really have direction, or are they just drifting? Noodles believes there is a plan — they just don’t want other teams knowing what it is… maybe that means moving veterans and quietly setting things up for the future.VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/p4LGyMLRUmU#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.

Where are you guys out? They're in a race? Do you think they can make it? What are we doing here? I did the hot take with Boomer and Jack when you took the week off. And I said, because they were right on the cuss. Will they have at least one day where they wake up in a playoff position? And then we were all like, yes.

And then they promptly lost back to back and are in 30. They're 30. Yeah. It's so tight, though. I'm telling you, you have one good week. Like they, at one point, I believe it was it last week when I was taking my time off. Yeah. They, uh, they were the fourth hottest team in the NHL.

They were unbelievable. Since November, they've been. Yeah. Nothing quite like loosened in Nashville and Seattle. They've been awesome. Yes. But, but at the end of the day, I still think Connie sticks with the plan, whatever the plan is. They don't know what the plan.

This is the issue we have in Calgary and I don't even want to talk to you about Calgary because it's the same GD thing. Nobody knows what the plan is. They say one thing. They do other. No, there's no. It's. I disagree.

It's the plastic bag in the wind. They know what they're doing. They just don't, they don't need to let us know what they're doing. They're just going to do it. We're going to wake up and see something happen. I don't know. I mean, the proof is in the pudding. Let me ask you guys this.

If by March 6th, how different will that team look? Hopefully We want it to be very History would say not as different as you want. Sorry, I'm stepping on you, but we all agree and we're going to say the same thing. We all think here, and this is for the goalie in you,

the one thing you can't not have is goaltending. And if you have goaltending, you can build. They have a goaltender. So their fear of going in a tank for a decade doesn't hold, wait with me. Right. Because you have a goalie.

You can build out from him. Yes. And you're not, your cupboards aren't completely bare. And if you trade it, Coleman, you're going to get something in return. If you trade Anderson,

you're going to get something in return. If you trade cadre, you're going to get good pieces in return. This is not a, we have to start from scratch a new recipe book. They have pieces in place. Build it with the kids.

And here's the other thing. RET that I'll agree with you 100% and I'll even throw a comment on top of that. The assets that you get back potentially for those players that you named

might be impactful right away just good young players that they get. You might get prospects or you might get young NHL players that might not be a massive drop off from the players

or where they're at. Yes, Nazim Kadri is a really skilled guy. I don't know if they end up moving him. Keep in mind, I'd believe Nazim controls his own destiny, right? Does he need a little bit? I just said 10 or 15.

The point of it is, it's not who you move. It's that you do move guys and you make those changes and you get assets in return. You're not, San Jose's better because they got a goaltender and clearly Celebrini, but without the goaltender, they weren't as good. I think Knight in Chicago has been helped them out. The guy in Anaheim has helped them out. Who's still hurting? Buffalo's still hurting.

And part of it's because of the goaltender. and Ottawa is still finding its way, and it's all because of goaltending. I read a stat this morning that we're probably going to have on our broadcast tonight. It's through MoneyPuck, which I don't know how trusted that analytic site is because I use sport logic a lot. But, Hinder, you could probably talk to this.

The Ottawa senators are number one in expected goals, number one. But last place in expected goals, say percent. So that says it all. right there, right? This is a team. You know, the other night I watched them play. I didn't do the game. But the other night, they lost against Detroit, 5'3. They outchanced them 24 to 11, high danger chances. Yeah, didn't they have that goal to get pulled after eight shots, three goals or something? Marilyn and got pulled after his, uh, nine shots, three on nine, didn't have his goods. I get it. Everyone has an off night. I would come back. Now, I'm in Utah tonight. They play tomorrow in

Colorado. Colorado's got to be pissed. They've lost two in a row. Yeah, they'll be sad. And, you know, in a back-to-back situation. But in the end, what I'm talking about is you're exactly right. You build it from the net out. Calgary's got a stud, a literal stud. They're overplaying him again. You might have a stud in Perek.

You know, you might have something there. I think he's as the framework of something. I'm trying to find comparables. Does he not, for me, play a little bit like Evan Bouchard? We've only been saying that for two months. Yeah, nobody wants. Calgary noodles. Maybe say Carlson or something.

Get us off the sentiment. He doesn't skate as well as Eric Carlson. I'm sorry. He's straight-legged. He's got the forest dumps stills on like Evan Bouchard. So I'm sorry. You guys could, I know we hate, I know you hate Evanston, but I'm just saying it's a hell of a comparison if you have an Evan Bouchard.

Put it that way. Yeah, like we've talked about the Bouchard thing a lot. he's an incredibly polarizing player. He's incredibly good at one end and incredibly bad at the other and how you net those two things out, person to person's very different. So just back to Flames real quick,

if they have a plan and you believe that Connie is going to liquidate veterans and get younger players and they are actually on a rebuild and they don't want to say it publicly, why would an organization put the president of hockey operations out there and say the opposite? Like, is that not insulting your fan base? Why would you just not speak?

If you don't want people to know, just don't lie to them. and don't talk. Yeah, I don't know, and I honestly don't have those answers, but I'm bullish on Connie. I'm bullish on, you know, and I want to give him, I think he's done a really good job. Pinder, how many times have you pointed out how well he's drafted,

and, you know, I'm bullish on there being a plan there. It just, whether they let us know or not, you're right. If it's, whether you deem it disrespectful or not, I think we would all agree probably Donnie Maloney probably shouldn't have done that interview. field. It's fair. It's fair to say. Because if there's a, if they're saying one thing

and doing the other, I think with Don, and I have a long history of going back to 1994 with Don Maloney, he was my general manager of the Islanders. Don is a good hockey guy, but I don't think he's the best communicator. And so in front of a Mike, he probably was trying to say one thing.

Ricky Bobby. Well, Ricky Bobby. Ricky Bobby. I know what's his hands. But the thing is, I remember Don having a heart to heart with me one time, and I walked away from the conversation going, I feel like I know what he's trying to say,

but he didn't base it. He was trying to tell me I was awful without telling me I was awful. It was, you know. Opposite of Daryl Sutter. Yes. Where Daryl, like I say, you walk into Daryl's office. When you walk out, you walk underneath the crack of the door. You're just going right up.

You're Fred Flintstone. So I think at the end of the day, I do believe that this team will look different, but again, I don't know what they're going to do. And that's the proof is in the pudding, guys.