Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Rasmus Andersson Breaks His Silence On Trade & Contract Talk | BB Clips

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

Rhett and Pinder break down Rasmus Andersson’s comments following a huge Flames win over the Vegas Golden Knights, after Andersson joined the Sportsnet After Hours panel and shared some telling thoughts on his future. The guys react to Andersson’s comments about a potential trade and his next contract — including his “it takes two to tango” remark — and debate whether the Calgary Flames should extend him as the never-ending conversation continues.VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/udV2TBs-1tg#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.

So Rasmus Anderson was front and center on Saturday. Another great game. He's having an awesome year. There's always that fear. Guys in his walk year. What if he has a bad year? He's going to hurt his trade value. The flip side of the coin is,

oh, of course he played well. This guy's working for a contract. We hear all these narratives when guys get in the last year. He's been awesome. He played on a broken leg for multiple weeks last year. It was not at his best. Plus minus is pretty ugly. It's been excellent.

I looked. He's just on the outside of the top 10 in defensive. of scoring this year. Rasmus! He's right there with Rasmus Dahlene. That's a few games. Fair enough. He's right there with their Carlson's of the world.

I don't necessarily think that's how you would describe him as an offensive defense, but he's doing it all. He's playing big minutes and he's been a big part of a flames resurgence over the last five weeks. So the conversation is very much front and center. On every trade board, Rasmus right near the top, if not the top.

Pike does a little diving, and as far as the rumor mill, last year, they're asking for a first and a good prospect. This year, I'm sure they'll be asking for the first and a good prospect. And if he's planning like this, maybe your best prospect or two of your best prospects, or two firsts. Rasmus then went on after hours of Scott Oak, did a great job chatting with the Hockeyton Canada crew,

always candid. It never feels like Rasmus is spinning some sort of PR nonsense. That's just who he is. What you hear is what he feels. There's not a filter. There isn't a PR training first. him that's telling him what to say. Rasmus is Rasmus. We love Rasmus. He wants to be a flame. He basically said, I'm hearing insiders saying I'm changing my mind. I'm in him out. He says,

nothing's changed. The problem is it takes two to tango. I want to be here. And clearly he and the flames are not on the same page financially, which I understand from both sides. Rasmus has been an undermarket deal, right out of entry level. He's making $4.55 million is a guy that might have been Tre Living's best move. Hard to argue. You locked him in. six years, I believe it was. It immediately became a deal. He's been a top three, top two defensemen, pretty much the entirety of the deal.

And at the end of the deal, he's still going to have the ability, in theory, to move him out for a huge pile assets. That's about as good as the signing gets. Now, the rumored as from Rasmus was max term, nine million. That's the Jacob Chikrin deal, eight times nine.

The flames are more comfortable with the rumored amount of what Neil Pionk made, which was a six times seven. And while eight times nine and six times seven sound close, they're not. One's 42 million. The other is 72 million. You're 30 million apart. And I'm sure that gap's probably narrowed a bit.

But does Rasmus's trajectory match the flames? And to your point, does Rasmus on the flames for, let's say, the next eight years help you more or less than the package you're going to get in return and all the cap space you'll have down the road when, as most people will, he'll start to. decline in his mid-30s until he's out of the league before he's 40, like 99% of players in the NHL. It's a real pickle. It's a pickle. But love the Rasmus, check out the video. And yeah, I feel for him a bit because if this team was run differently, it's an easy extension.

He's a core piece. We're contending. We need him. The problem is, they're a point out of second from the bottom and only a few points out of last in the league. It becomes more complicated. that what they have, I don't know if we've ever discussed this.

I don't. But do you believe that what they have outside of their NHL squad, that there's enough talent that keeping in, when those guys graduate, Grin specifically, Rashney, I guess,

in a perfect scenario. It comes back. Do you believe that those guys are good enough to keep Anderson and be competitive. Do you know what I mean? I don't. Yeah, I think you're right in Mucky Middleland. Yeah.

And so what I think is that if you move Rasmus, now you go get your game breaker in the draft. Because if you move Rasmus, this team's going to feel it. Big time. I also think you've got a log jam on the right. Weger can play both sides, but he's a righty. Restevich is a righty, Perix, are righty, Henry Mews is a ready, that he's coming.

He's going to be a good player, although he's done for the year. that's a few years down the road. It's just when you sign an eight-year deal, you got to zoom out a bit. And if you've got five guys that play the right side that you think are NHLD men, take away the name bars and the feelings you have about a player and just say, oh, you got a lot of righties.

You could trade a righte and add somewhere else on your roster. And in this case, it would be in the form of a very high pick that hopefully could be your number one center or a star player for the next decade. We'll see. What if you're not trading Cadre Coleman? I could see the moving, I think the most likely scenario, if I was guessing, and this is a guess, they move one of the two. One of the two?

Not both. Because they just do have this inclination of like, we really don't want to bottom out that much. Exactly. If you're not trading those other guys, then I think you keep Anderson. I think if you move just Anderson and not the others, you're still going to get yourself a top three pick. It's just the minutes he plays are not, like you can't just fire Bristevich into top pair minutes right now. Oh, even top four. Yeah, there's going to be a major drop off.

And even when Perrette comes back, it's like, look, very skilled, very talented, has not figured it out at the NHL level. I mean, he's played what? 15 games in the NHL, I don't know, something like that. Like when he gets a couple hundred games in, he's going to be hopefully an electric player. He's not there yet. Same with Bristavich.

So you think they trade Anderson and then one of those two? Yeah, it sounds like they've had a billion calls on Coleman because he's the type of player that is so easy for a contender to add. You're not scared about the term on the deal. There's only one year left. He's worth his money. He makes 4.9. He's won two cups before.

And it's that magical third line checking winger. He won two cups in Tampa playing with Barclay Goddraud, Yannigourn. And obviously, it wasn't the third line. The one in the cups is Kutcherovs and Vasilewski. I don't know. The NHL website is just dog shit. You've got to go to the other ones.

Hey? Yeah. Like, if you're running. It might be something you want to look at. A league. Yeah. Make it good. Like,

make it easy for us to fall in love with this league. Anyway, sorry. Yeah. So I think Coleman is going to have huge demand to the point where it's like, we have to accept this offer. There's only one year left on them. I am going the other way and boom, sit it. I'm not, I,

it's not a fight. The problem is I don't disagree with what they should do. Right. But what they will do is different. I watched. that team. And I got the sense that they do have a good. They believe.

And they do have a belief. Yes. And they like playing together. It looked like a team that was enjoying the challenge. Yes. For sure. Now, it was Vegas without Eichol and Theodore. And that's not nothing.

And I didn't love their. Yeah, but there's other teams out there that don't have an Eichel. You know what I mean? Like, I understand what you're saying. But I don't think that that matters. So do you think they can make the playoffs or no? I'm not predicting they make the playoffs.

What I'm predicting is that they like, they told us, they like their core. Yeah. They like their guys. Yeah. I can see, or at least I can sense, those guys like playing together. They think they can make the playoffs. They do. They believe, yes.

And they should. And good on them for believing, because there's nothing worse to watch than a team that doesn't believe. What I'm getting at is that you keep going back to, are they going to make the play? I don't know. They haven't made them for three years. Yeah. I don't think they make it this year. I don't know that they care.

No, they're still trying to do it. That's not the right thing. Clearly they care. They don't care about our expectations. Yes. They don't care that we think this is a better path. They agree. They like Godry.

They like Coleman. They're obviously arguing with Anderson. And I think, I don't think they're blind to the, we could really get some nice pieces. Yeah. But I also think there's, I would say, say there's a ton of turmoil down at that, at the saddle dome. In front office.

With all those guys trying to stir those drinks, not sure what the recipe is supposed to be. There's a lot of opinions. Yeah. There's a lot of different paths. And we've seen a lot of different hockey from the, you guys are horseshed to now. Yeah. That's a good team. They played well.

I agree with the entirely. I think there's probably been some very, very heated pleading of like this group can compete. And I think there's also probably been some really strong, like, guys, here's our chance to go get the piece that's the hardest to get, which is the superstar. And they're probably both right to a degree. So, like you definitely have an opportunity to get a superstar in the draft, and you could do it if you move the right pieces. And you could also, as you're saying, make a compelling case that, you know, what you saw in that environment Saturday night,

if you can replicate that another, you know, maybe you can be, eight in the west. But I just keep saying at the end of the day, like, let's say somehow, some way this team goes on an absolute tear and they sneak into the playoffs as wildcard two. Like, how you can do against Colorado? It's eight days in jet fuel is the, is the Sutter line. Yeah. Yeah. So. No, and I again, I'm not arguing that they, I just, when you watch them live, it's like, hmm, it's a great day. They don't agree with our take. No. And that's fine. I don't want the players trying to lose, right? I don't want the coach saying, let's not prepare a game plan and let's not work on the

penalty kill, which was horseshit for the first month. It's been really good since. They're doing their jobs. And the question is management's job. Which direction are you going to take this?