Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - TSN's Noodles On Zayne Parekh, Devin Cooley & The Flames Scoring Woes 🔥 | BB Clips

Starting point is 00:00:00 I heard your spirited argument about, you know, making sure that, yeah, correct. Basically, you know, where do you play him? Who do you play him with? All of that. It is early on. Yes, I didn't love his game. Yes. I thought he looked overwhelmed a little bit.

Starting point is 00:00:24 But give in mind, Vegas is a top tier team. Like, you're, you know, that's one of the best teams you're going to face as far as how how structurally strong they are. They're heavy. They press on you. You know, their top players are really good at. turning pucks over a guy like Stone. They've got a fair bit of talent on that squad as well.

Starting point is 00:00:42 They do. They do. Like they're one of the top eight, I would say. They're in that top eight of best teams in the league. So it was a good challenge for them. But, you know, there was some overwhelmess on the back end, put it that way. You know, Perek was one of them, but there was others that are veteran guys that didn't have their best either.

Starting point is 00:01:04 I don't even know if it was like you're right about what Vegas is, but it was with time and space that it just, it's either tentativeness or it seems casual. Like he's trying to rim it behind his own net and he blasts it off the outside of the net and now they're stuck in their own zone. He's looking for a pass at the far blue line and throws it right into someone's skates in front of them.

Starting point is 00:01:27 They stay in their own end. Like it feels like he's absolutely still very early and figuring out what the hell works here because clearly the plays that let them to 100 plus points in the O, they can't all be made in the NHL. Right. Yeah. You know, a lot of times early on as a player, you're trying to figure out your spacing. So, right, you could speak to it, but it's more what I've noticed, guys that are highly

Starting point is 00:01:50 skilled, you know, especially like defensemen that were 80, 100 points in the OHL or in junior, they go to try things. Those lanes aren't available at the NHL level. There's just too many layers. There's just too many good players that know how to defend, the time and space, the physicality, the speed, everything, and your decision-making. So your process has to be a lot faster

Starting point is 00:02:14 because things just happen quicker at the NHL. I think, you know, keep it simple. It certainly works for you. But until you understand, like, what you can get away with, what you can't, you do have to keep it simple. You do have to be conservative. Because if you're trying a home run play,

Starting point is 00:02:34 it is going to get turned around pretty quickly and you can look bad. But I agree, having somebody who's stable to play with him, you know, I always look at like Eric Carlson had Mark Ma Thott. You know, you go back years ago, like, you know, there was always like a safety valve to play with a guy who was more offensively gifted. Does Calgary have that? And, you know, do they have a guy that they feel can be stable? If Perak wants to step out of his, not out of his comfort,

Starting point is 00:03:04 but try things that that may not, you know, either may or may not work at the NHL level. Ball's the closest to it. I mean, maybe if he's a left shot, there's someone else, but it. I just think you limit Weger and Anderson if they're trying to play together. Not even trying to come. No, to play with Perak. If they're with Perak, their focus is making sure he doesn't drown as opposed to.

Starting point is 00:03:27 Yeah. And that's why ball's the guy. Yeah. I think, you know, ball is, to me, that's. his role. I think he's a very, and I say this is supposed to be a stabilizing guy. He's limited. Like he's a very, like he's a stay-at-home, limited guy. Like for me, that's the way I look at it.

Starting point is 00:03:46 But, you know, you should have somebody who transports the puck play with him because his job is to do all the muck, the filth and muck. And, you know, if Porek is the guy to play with him, maybe get a partner that you want and play with him for like five games and say, Is this the guy that we want to play with him? Maybe it is ball. That's, at least try it. You got to try it.

Starting point is 00:04:11 Yeah, I think they're still stuck trying to win hockey games. That might, if they can't score, that's quickly going to change. But anyway, I think Porek will get plenty of ice time. You'll get plenty of opportunity. What is the time frame? Have there been announcement on Huberdo? He's traveling tonight with the team. So whether he plays in Utah or it's Saturday in Vegas,

Starting point is 00:04:32 they'll have to make a decision on a winger. Pospicol is not on the trip from what we've heard. Right. So those are two big blows offensively because I think what if Huberto, well, relative terms, but Huberto led them with what, 65 points, wasn't it, last year? Poster's a fourth line banger at this point. Didn't have a great year last year last year. You'd love to see more, but not much last year offensively. Huberto should help with the goal scoring side. He's got to set things up. But I don't know that it's the...

Starting point is 00:05:01 You're not bringing back a super. but there's a 60 plus point guy that own many of those. He does help. He does help the dynamic. And you're right. If he's able to find somebody in the open with a beautiful pass, that guy gets a clear look. So, yeah, I think it's, I always looked at Calgary. Like, I thought it was going to be a struggle for them this season.

Starting point is 00:05:24 I think we've all had that conversation. You know, does it look like 96 points? It looks more like high 80s type of thing. And that's if the goalie is. is given you a chance. Like, you know, I didn't, I didn't dislike his game yesterday. He was on top of stuff.

Starting point is 00:05:39 It's just, you know, when you play a lot, you're going to get, you're going to get scored on. There's going to be some, some nights where, okay, you know, 900, 900 save percentage. What were the shots last night? I was trying to think in my mind

Starting point is 00:05:53 because is he going to be a 910 goal tender this year, Wolf. 29 shots, three goals. Yeah. And again, like, you could also just have a, defenseman that doesn't let Jack Eichel go right to the net. The environment's not going to be a gray one. But that's what comes with the job.

Starting point is 00:06:11 That's what comes with the job. Wolf is going to have to mask those mistakes. And if you even go back to their win against Edmonton, it was at 3-0 that Wolf made some big saves. So that looked like a 6-1 game, right? So if you're the coach or the GM and you're looking at, and we're one and three or whatever, and we've got a fluke win in Edmonton,

Starting point is 00:06:32 are you starting to get a little bit antsy? Are you worried? Like, I know in Buffalo, they're going to throw everybody out. That's 14 years of no playoffs. But you know what I mean? And like at some point, people are going to go, we're going to have to win some games here. You do.

Starting point is 00:06:49 And but the only thing I would say is, and it's a lot easier, I wouldn't say it's easier because at the management level, I think they probably got, you know, a 10 game segment. You got to look at this and go, we got to give it 10 games to see if correct can settle in to see if you know what type of seasons these guys are going to have the one thing i will say that's been consistent and i've called a couple games live already i think four or five games already i've got to see almost everybody play at least one game the league has been sloppy it's been bad hockey i'm sorry like it's been

Starting point is 00:07:22 some really like sloppy like and i think it's going to get worse next season when you have a shorten training camp and no fitness testing. So you're going to have all these weird things happening. What? That's the one. Did they sneak that in the CBA? What, the fitness test? We haven't heard any of this.

Starting point is 00:07:41 Oh, God, I'm making a comeback. There's zero fitness testing. Really? So that's in the CBA. And I think it's funny talking to a few AGMs and managers and stuff. They think it's going to be counterproductive. Because guys are in shape. I mean, that's, you know, nowadays guys take a week off at the end of the season.

Starting point is 00:08:02 They're back skating. Yeah, Matt Bay, Mitchcoff looks great. Yeah. Well, Obie looks like he's fading away to a mountain right now, too. But at the end of the way, at the end of the day, it, in the coach's mind, when you see a guy struggle out of the gate, you're going to go, he's out of shape. Where nowadays, they can look to all the testing and go, this guy's in unbelievable shape. he's just had, he's at a slow start. So I think it's going to be counterproductive for a short training camp and no fitness testing going,

Starting point is 00:08:34 we got to whip these guys into shape. You got to get, you got extra, you know, extra workouts after you've got to do all these things where it's probably just natural. They're in great shape. It's just a slow start. So getting back to my original comment, I think it's, I think the league's been sloppy, but, you know, the flames are a team that is going to struggle, five on five scoring. So you're going to need great goaltending and you're going to have to win three,

Starting point is 00:09:02 two games. And that is the challenge. Like they were close last night, but, you know, close isn't good enough. You don't get a participation badge. Tonight will be Devin Cooley's first ever start as a cabaret flame, despite it feeling like he's been around for years. If he's the second best goalie tonight, this is an ugly start. Yep. He has to. And my hope for him is that, you know, he has some nerves, which is good, positive energy. I hope that the team plays well. It's a weird so I played in the miners

Starting point is 00:09:34 a hundred years ago in that same building that it was called the Delta Center. Now they've had the, in the off season, they had the expansion so the seats are a little bit more aligned and look better. But you know, they, that team's got

Starting point is 00:09:50 speed. That team has speed. They've got skill. I think people sleep on Utah. but like they've got some players there and you know you can't just I would argue that probably the flames got into their hotel rooms at what 2.30 in the morning last night like it's going to be a real challenge for them so we'll see what they're made of if you come back to coolly like you might need a goaltender steal or you might need at least to stand on his head in the first period until they get their legs and their minds underneath them but I'm looking for big things from coolly because it was kind of a coin flip on who was going to back up wolf this year because

Starting point is 00:10:27 neither one of them were really good in preseason.

Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - TSN's Noodles On Zayne Parekh, Devin Cooley & The Flames Scoring Woes 🔥 | BB Clips

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