Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Should The Flames Let Zayne Parekh Go To The World Juniors?? 🤔 | BB Clips

Episode Date: October 27, 2025

Boomer, Pinder, and Rhett debate whether the Calgary Flames should send rookie defenseman Zayne Parekh to the World Juniors. The youngster has shown flashes of brilliance early in the season, but the NHL grind is starting to take a toll — could a break to dominate at the World Juniors be exactly what he needs? With the Flames potentially in tough by January, the guys discuss what’s best for Parekh’s development and the team’s future.VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/dDviybaITnU#nhl #nhlshorts #nhlplayoffs #nhlpredictions #nhlhockey #nhlpicks #stanleycup #stanleycupfinal #calgaryflames CHECK OUT OUR STUFF ⬇️FLAMESNATION 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.

You're a D man. What do you think on 19? How's correct been for you so far? He's good, but he's going to get himself killed. The time and space thing, it feels like you've got to figure this out quickly because a lot of the things he's trying are or aren't working, but one of the things he hasn't figured out is I'm not to get drilled. Yeah, he's getting, he's in the line of fire. I think it'll be, it'll come. It will come. It will or just hope that it comes without major. Yeah.

Yeah. Injuries or issues. He moves too well. He moves the puck. He's going to be good. There's still the odd. Like, oh, that would have worked in junior and it's not here, son. And how much is Huska willing to put up with it?

Well, the worstest team is, the more you can put up with it. I'll tell you that. Like, let him figure it out. Yeah. I'd play more of him, not less of him. That said, you know, if he hits a bit of that rookie wall like we saw with Monaghan and some other guys. Not if. When?

These are regular occurrences in people. Yeah. So even if it's not a. a rookie. You might get through the whole first year. Yeah. And halfway through next year, like, what the hell happened to this guy? Yeah, yeah. Look at Fox. He noticed him last night. Not a rookie, but yeah. I know, but there are.

He took a beating on the Four Nations thing and a lot of people were criticizing his foot speed. It's kind of the same. He's never been elite skater. I don't know. I still think he's a really good defenseman, but I don't think last night, any of their guys that were elite were elite. The goal he wasn't. The point in making, back to where we're still. started. It's just that it's not a clear path to 100 points a year, every year over year. Sorry. Especially offensive defense.

Bobby Germany pointed this out the other night. He's like, your Bouchard, your Carlson's, your, like, Fox. Like a lot of these guys his age are still playing college or junior or in pro leagues in Europe. Bouchard could go back to. Yes. I get too. They'll get claimed on waivers. I just wonder, like, if he, if he has a tough time sorting this out or there's just this first. Why do you want to run him out of town? I will not finish.

Go ahead. This is where you're going with it. Where am I going on? I want him in the HL. You can't put him in the air. I know, but that's where you continually harp and it's not allowed. Are you sick?

No, I'm not sick. What are you putting your jacket on for? I'm cold. I'm cold. He's sick. Get to half out. So what I'm saying is like,

do you entertain World Juniors or no? No. No. He doesn't want to go to the World Junior's team can't have screwed him over last year. I'd be like, kiss my ass. Yeah. Well, I know there's that and they pretty much gassed everyone involved with last year's team.

But I would, I just think back to the Monaghan year, and I think it would have been good for him as much as he might not have wanted to go. I can tell you he won't want to go because I had to go and I did not want to go. Right. Is it the worst thing? No, but he's playing a bunch of games. I wasn't playing. Yeah. If he's now.

Asperid and Bahal, he is playing. Can you imagine sending him to the world juniors and he blows a knee out? I can do it. No, wait. I don't, yeah. Is the injury higher in the world juniors? I'm confused. No, what, what's the bonus to be had by sending him?

He's playing a regular shift here in the NHL. Why would you send him to the world? Where's the, yeah, what are you gaining? The whole preface was if he hits a wall here, because a lot of times the first year players will see that. And I'm prefacing there will be a wall at some point. And going to the world juniors doesn't fix it. Okay.

If he's not playing. So, like, and again, bigger picture, like, you might be in a season, where you're stripping back veterans, all this talk about culture is quieted right down. And it might not be the most, I love going to work environment in the league if you're 32nd in December. If you're going to a tournament

where there's a gold medal at the end and you're going to do a lot of winning is the exact opposite. He's telling you this bullshit. Tell me what? Somebody's talked. What have I said that's wrong? If he's playing and he's a rookie in the NHL,

you're telling me he needs to go to the world juniors to up his enthusiasm for the game of hockey. No, I'm just saying this might not, this might be a little toxic. And it's in December, it has nothing to do with January when it's still shitty and busy in the NHL and that's hard to play.

Now, I don't care if he goes. I'm not at a minute. I'm picking your brain. You literally did it. Yeah. And it's like, I wonder about how fun of a place

this is going to be in December. And maybe they turn this around. You're 19 playing in the fucking NHL. What are you whining? What are we talking about? We're going to go play World Juniors to increase your enjoyment of the game. After Flames wins, just get me to talk to Red. I'll get him going because he did shit for you for about 15 minutes there.

Thanks. You're welcome. Anything you can do to get the show going? There he's back. Good job. He was the worst guy on the panel. Now he's in line for player of the game. MVP of the show, Redd.

You see? Great. No, I don't. And I'm not adamant, but I'm checking your brain. There is a, you're young enough bombs at me. I know. There is a reason you would send a kid to World Juniors. If you had him in a lineup and he's,

in and out and you had a really good team and he needed to play in port minutes this guy play him as the first defenseman now in this team at this point who cares yeah he's your so i don't think and i don't think that if if he can't grind grind through his rookie season in the nch l without losing his mojure what no you're in the n hl you just played the New York Rangers. You're going to go to New York City and play at MSG. World Juniors holds nothing on that. Nothing.

Zero. So if you can't maintain your enthusiasm for a season, even if your last place. And I don't even talking about his enthusiasm. You know what? The monotony of an 82 game, March and a lost season. So learn how to do it because guess what, bud? You're doing it every year for that's the rest of your life.

Well, I just mean like the 30 seconds. If I'm the flames, I want to keep him in my incubator. I don't want to take the keys to my brand new sports car and let somebody else drive it for a month. This is a big part of my franchise. Plus, I don't know that

hockey Canada's made some interesting moves the last couple of years, and he was involved in some of that. So I don't know how crazy he would be to want to go back there. If I'm the team, I'll just keep him here. If he's hit a wall, we'll handle that.

ourselves. Any of you scratch them enough times, you could send him on a conditioning stand if it got that bad. I don't think it'll get that bad. I don't either. I think he's going to be playing enough. I think he's going to be. Dale Hunter's coaching the team this year.

Dale would be a cool guy to play. Like, again, they kind of, last year they looked in the mirror and it was two years in a row where they kind of oversteered and thought, we're going to outthink everyone. Look at us how smart we are and it blew up in their faces twice. It's a major turning of the page. But, hey, I mean, I think

that you make really good points. If I'm in the Calgary Flames, it's not even a secondary thought. It's a December conversation. Because you might not hit that wall, right? And you've got time to consider it. I'm kind of with you. Like I said, right at the beginning of the year,

like, don't be playing this guy on the third pair. Play him with Uighur. Like he's going to figure it out. Aside from the physicals, you know, he's got to learn how to avoid hits in that. What have you thought of just his play? Like he's not in over his head at all.

He's just figuring out what works and what does. He's still making mistakes, but that's part of the learning process. I think those are some of the guys that end up going to World Juniors, guys that just don't look ready for this level, that hangar, they don't play, they've been scratched a number of times. It doesn't happen. Because they're monitoring that,

well, we can't let them get to whatever the game plateau is before. To be fair, if it's a better team, he might be right in that spot. He might be. Like it's Paholl and Miramano. How many times does this happen? Two of them are playing. What the, uh,

the kids in the NHL team, it goes and place World Jun. Yeah, well, the conversation happens pretty much every year. I don't think it happens. but I don't know how often. It's discussed a lot, but I don't think it happens. And I guess maybe, like, we don't want to dig up the old rant of mine, but like if he was available to go to the A, would he be here now or would he be in the A? I think he'd be in the A.

Because it'd be top pair, power play, and then bring them up when he's, because of kind of like what you're seeing with Gritt. Yeah. Couldn't have to make the team, yeah. Or just the bodies that are here. Uh, development. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. No, honestly, if this is a, if this is an elite, like this is Edmont's blue line, he's not playing. Like, they're just too deep. But here it's like, yeah, can you be better than one of Pahal or Bean? You just picked Edmonton's blue line. It's a good blue line now. Not from what I'm hearing. There are major concerns around the league, Ryan.

Okay. I'll put up the decore. I'm just saying, like, you've got like three guys here, like when you started. Miro, Bean, Pahal. Again, I'm not talking about depth. I'm just talking about family. Of course, he can play here. But if you had the.

option where would he be better serving with this guy is why you're trying to run him out of town what the hell like it is and if we make up what you don't even like the what if game so i don't know why you're playing it and this is what it is and he's better i was saying he should play with four or five two weeks ago and you're telling me you're too high on this kid it's gonna hurt you like i like i like i'm too much like you're gonna ruin it and i'm like i'm just trying to talk about like where he's at what everyone thinks of what he's played so far there's no options though What we're talking about is all hypothetical. Should he be in it?

He can't. And this decor is what it is. And so he's good enough to be on it. And you can grow him right now in the NHL into a 20-minute defenseman this season, if you so choose. Or you can pull the reins back and say, we're going to spot duty. Yeah. Just like you said, I don't want to send him to world juniors because this is my sports card. Yeah.

I don't need somebody else driving it using it as they see fit. Is he playing? You're not borrowing my car. He played three minutes last night in a preliminary game. It's your training. It's your coaching. It's your skills people. It's your guy getting your team and your schedule, your city and then's ups and downs of the travel.

That's how I feel about it too. That's just. And I don't like, and the AHA is fine if your team is that good. But they aren't. No. So, so you're going to subject them to a season in the AHA. HL? Yeah, like the gridding thing, they just got too many wingers,

and that's going to be fine for them, and you can bring them up in the spring. I imagine they'll be liquidating a few wingers along the way. Yeah, I'm not against the philosophy of letting guys marinate there. Yeah, good word. Yeah. Right.

Smalls cooking. Yeah. But I think he's going to play. Play him. Let him be good. Play the piss out of them. I agree. Partly why.

you know, it just doesn't seem like World Juniors would be a a realist. I'm sure they'd love to have him. Well, they love to him. Whether or not he would want to go to them and then. Yeah. The Connie Huska conversation would be,

no, like he's not killing us. Hopefully when you're chatting in two, three, four weeks. We've seen measured improvement. Yeah. Awareness of time and space that's totally different than the O. If it wasn't the physicality issue, I don't know that we'd be saying anything. negatively about

there's the odd time some stuff that doesn't work and that's fine that's how you look over last night once but also part of the appeal of what he's going to be is there were times he followed the play up and I'm like dude stay the bad and it ends up on his stick and it's like oh okay that's

why you're yeah totally yeah yeah that's right like good players could see things and try things differently than us dusters and throw it off the class and we want them to be good yeah you want the high You want them to turn into a steady defense.

Take the stallion and turn them into the plow. Run. Let them run. Let them run.