Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - The Brutal TRUTH About Nazem Kadri And The Calgary Flames 🚨 | BB Clips

Starting point is 00:00:00 you got to be a little cutthroat here if you're Craig Conroy and have some tough decisions and have some tough discussions and conversations and conversations with people it's like oh I like kind of like okay but here's what the Calgary flames need new building be damned like you talk in five years here's what here's where we want to be here's where we need to be and I think they've got that plan and there are steps that we need to take in order to get there or close to it So Bobby brought it up last night on Afterburner. Nazim Kadri has a full no move this year on July 1 that turns to a 13 team no trade list. Nazim has never uttered the word trade.

Starting point is 00:00:50 Nazim has never suggested he'd like to be somewhere else. Nazim Khadry's been a great flame aside from year one with Sutter when it was clear they weren't on the same page. Nazim Khadj has been a great flame. I feel for him because all this dialogue about trade and Nazim, he's like, I've never once said, I'm not happy here. but what hasn't been talked about is what is going to happen in November and December where it is so clearly obvious that on the rest of his contract

Starting point is 00:01:14 this will not be a playoff team that's a conversation that Nazim has to initiate. He's got the no move. This year. And then if it's like, well, I only go to one place, it's like, okay, well then we'll just wait to July 1 and then we could trade it to 20, 19 other teams.

Starting point is 00:01:31 So one thing that I've never really been able to understand or appreciate, I guess. is the trepidation that there seems to be for a team to approach a player to discuss potentially moving or waving their no move. Like it's like with the Markstrom thing, it was so delicate and then he got his plate. There's too many delicate flowers.

Starting point is 00:01:53 This is BS. Oh, we can't even have a testing. Like can you not sit down with Nazum-Codry after a, whatever? Have a steak. Be like, so, dude. What are we going to do? What are we wanting to? He's really looking.

Starting point is 00:02:06 What do we want? We could probably get a haul for you, but what do you want to do? Yeah. U.S. he could do that. I guarantee you if Connie wanted to go have a steak with cadre, he's mature enough and veteran enough to go,

Starting point is 00:02:17 yeah, let's go for a steak and have a bullshit. Do you need the agent there? No, no, no. I think it's more of the, okay, so it's still only October 23rd. You can have that chat. But like, what are the reverberations through the Uighur, Backland, the kids, Wolf,

Starting point is 00:02:35 when it's like, oh, Connie and Cadre went and they talked about a trade. Like, we are that bad. Well, shit, look at the standings. It's on the wall. And are you all that soft that you can't realize? You can't see the state. Well, hopefully Sean O'Brien's not putting those standings up on the wall.

Starting point is 00:02:51 Sean, take them down because we don't want to be good. We love the standings and we're good. Take them down and we're bad. Let's not be depressed. Obie loves Roberts, by the way. Oh, he loves for. He's really in Nashville. I'm at Gary Roberts.

Starting point is 00:03:00 I loved him too. But it goes back to the mental softness. I'm not even going to call it toughness because there isn't enough of it. That you're saying that if they're I just wonder by it. I've never been a player. I'm not

Starting point is 00:03:15 questioning this age of players is different. I agree 100%. We are treated differently and for good or for worse, I don't know. But good God. If you fall apart because one of your players has a coffee with your

Starting point is 00:03:31 GM, she says, Because you talk about, you're going to get worse? You showed the roster there. It's okay, who's going to be on this team in five years or whatever? Nazim Kodry, to me, would be such a, there'd be a sweepstakes, a center with his ability. And even though he's not got points to back it up so far, everyone knows what's going on. This guy would be huge. You can easily envision a scenario where what you get in a trade is a cornerstone piece of

Starting point is 00:04:02 of your franchise for the next 10, 12 or more years. So the Leafs traded for Carlo at the deadline last year. They gave up Poitra, who was one of their top two prospects and a first rounder. Like, we're talking about Nazim Qadry number two center. We're not talking about a big right

Starting point is 00:04:18 shot second pair guy. This is a huge command. You know, it's salary and term and age, but still like right now today, Nazim Codry would help a lot of contenders by upgrading their second line center. Fact. and he's won and he's coming off a 30.

Starting point is 00:04:35 But it's just. But and I feel for now because he hasn't said a word and this is the dialogue that's going to be happening to the next three months. That's part of it. That's part of your job description. It is. Like I don't feel sorry for it. You're making $7 million. You're an athlete.

Starting point is 00:04:48 People are going to boo you. Say that you suck. Say you're great. All of that. And they might talk about you getting traded. That's part of that job. The hardest part, I'll be honest because we went through it is. when you start getting older and your play isn't as good and you go from being you're

Starting point is 00:05:09 revered as an integral piece of the puzzle to having that criticism and having that negative vibe around you and the shitty part is that's just that's the reality of the sport in the world you're living it and it's hard on the eagles and it sucks. It's hard of families around. We went in a bar. Two years earlier, it was

Starting point is 00:05:40 I was leaving a bar one night a couple years after we went to the finals. Warrior all washed up. Now it sounds stupid, but it's like, that's how quick it turns. And you know what? Dude wasn't wrong.

Starting point is 00:05:59 And here's the thing. Like we just talked about it. Like Michael Backlum was going to Selke votes a few years ago. He's now looking like one of their worst six forwards. Yeah. It happens to everyone. Mark Jordanna went from a Norris to like, eh, PTO.

Starting point is 00:06:13 Like, it's, it happens to everyone. Everyone. Yeah. And it's so mind-shattering and happens so quickly like it's overnight. You go from being revered to being ostracized and criticized. Yeah. And it sucks. It's what you trade for the last.

Starting point is 00:06:34 lifestyle and the money and the stardom. It's not fair, but it comes with the deal. But that's where you have to, that's, that's, that's the perspective of that is, yes, someone needs to sit down with these guys. That's, this is a part of it, man. You don't, this is part of it. Yeah. Unless you're Ray Bork and Sackick and Eisenman and you're walking out on top.

Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - The Brutal TRUTH About Nazem Kadri And The Calgary Flames 🚨 | BB Clips

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